Our dacha!
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This morning Will bought us a dacha (a little summer house)! Can you believe it? Tanya had kind of jokingly suggested that as a short-term solution. Will saw an ad in the paper yesterday, then met with the owners today and bought it on the spot. It turned out that they were from the unregistered church and had been praying for the right people to sell to, while we were praying for a good place to move. We happened to know that a special gift had come in for our housing needs, because Will's Dad was opening the mail while on the phone with us on Saturday. It was enough to buy this dacha and the garden plot that goes with it! (A huge thank you to the givers! I know you're reading this. 
You'll be getting a letter from me very soon.)
We'll get to spend the whole summer outside, gardening, playing, swimming and enjoying God's creation! Our new dacha is just outside the edge of the city, in a "collective garden area," surrounded by forest and close to the river. Still, we'll be close enough that we can walk to the trolleybus. We'll have electricity in the house and water close by, once they get those turned on.
In the fall, we'll probably move back into an apartment, but we'll still have this dacha for next summer and beyond that! I think I'll pray that the apartment on the first floor of this building is still open in the fall. I would love to come back to our friends and neighbors here.
I need to start sorting and packing to get ready to move, but all I want to do is plant seeds to put out in the garden.
(If you're wondering about the basement I wrote about last, we had decided that it probably wouldn't work, because we need to move too soon. It wouldn't have been possible to even get it into shape where we could camp out there soon enough. And there just wasn't any room for expansion later on.)
10 comments:
Praise God! A real yard, a real garden, a real answer to many prayers. Much love....
This is WONDERFUL news Phyllis! Wish I was there to help in the process! Those wee ones of yours are going to LOVE making a permanent mark on their own space!
~deb~
Oh, Phyllis and Will! We rejoice in God's answer to all our prayers! What a blessing this house will be for you all! It will be perfect for your family! We will continue to pray that the move goes smoothly!
Much love,
Barb =)
This is great! What fun this will be all summer! Love y'all! Baba Julie
Phyllis! How wondeful! I'm not even one to speak but I just didn't feel right about the basement thing, especially with all the work you'd have to do AND that it'd be smaller than where you are now. God is SO good!
So, how do you go about getting water? What will you do in the meantime?
PS: Good thing I didn't sign as "Mrs. W," as I could! That would be too confusing!
;-D
Phyllis, that's awesome! What a great temporary solution. It sounds like you're going to have a party all summer long!
Oh, wow! I'm so excited, but bummed that I'm not going to be able to be spending time in your dacha this summer. =-) This is truly wonderful news. Isn't God great?
Thanks for all the happy comments! To answer the few questions I saw, water was turned on for the development yesterday, and electricity should be soon. (They turn those off for the winter.) Water gets to be carried in buckets from the pipe.
If I'd known you were going to get a dacha, I wouldn't have bought those tickets to Guatemala. We leave on Sunday. Your mother and I could have helped you plant a garden. Oh, well. Have fun and plant some butterfly flowers.
How marvelously the Lord answers our prayers. What a coincidence that those fellow believers were praying for the right buyer while all of us were praying for a solution to your need for a place to stay. RIGHT!
Love,
Dad
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