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Kyle Family Blog 3
ROBBY, age 14
When I lived in Montana I had a horse. I enjoyed taking care of him, riding him, feeding him, and doing the many other things involved in owning a horse.
When we moved to Guam I knew I wouldn't be able to ride for along time. Needless to say, that thought was a little disturbing. Then one day, not long after we moved here, my mother picked up the local newspaper. She noticed an article written about two local horse ranches and immediately called the first ranch.
Mom told me that the ranch was in Yigo (pronounced Jego), that there were seven horses, and that the owner was interested in meeting me the next day. I was very excited.
When we met the owner, Pat, he seemed like a very nice man. After we had talked a while and I had met the horses, we decided that I would volunteer for three hours once a week. I helped clear land for pastures, groom, ride, and train horses. I enjoyed it a lot.
One of the first times I went there I saw Pat smoking when we pulled in. As soon as he saw us he threw away the cigarette. Later that day he admitted that he smoked but said he would never do so in front of me. And, for a while he didn't. But as the weeks went by he smoked while I was off doing something. Then he started smoking in front of me while talking about how bad it is to smoke and that he was going to stop.
Well, he didn't, and these incidences become more frequent. One week he was short tempered with the horses. I wondered what was going on until he said "I had a few to many drinks last night with my neighbor." When I heard this I could not imagine Jesus or my parents wanting me to be exposed to this kind of influence. When I got in the car to leave that day I told my mother that I would not be going back there anymore. When she asked me why (she had no idea any of this was going on) I blurted out the whole story. When I was finished my mother agreed that I should work there anymore.
After praying about it for several days I called Pat. I told him what was going on and under these circumstances I would not be coming back. It was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. I felt by doing this that I was practically renouncing my love for horses. But God helped me realize that this was not so and that I had made the right decision. God has given me another passion, a passion for kids. I did not have a chance to realize this in Montana.
In Guam we have met a family with three kids ages 5, 2, and 10 months. I have enjoyed doing many things with this family, including babysitting. I enjoy going for hikes on Sabbath with them, and helping as my mother teaches them how to swim. I also enjoyed helping out this past November with a program for children whose parents were attending an evangelistic meeting that the clinic held. I ran the PowerPoint system for the kid's sermon and helped kids ages 3-6 with their crafts.
Just this past week at church I helped watch the kids whose parent were attending a marriage seminar. Soon I'll have another opportunity to witness to kids when the neighborhood club my mother has been planning for a year starts. We are finally going to start the Sunbeam Neighborhood Club at the end of this month. Even though I now will have to wait to go back to the States to be around horses, I have found something else I enjoy.
~Robby
1. Sabbath hike: Robby holding Ephraim(2), Little John(5) sitting next to him on Mt. Lam Lam.
2. Robby taking care of children during a couples seminar.
3. Robby climbing biggest Banyan tree on Rota.
CHRISTOPHER, age 11
School
I know that my responsibility is to do my school work, but I still don't want to do it sometimes, so I complain. I think of Jesus and how He didn't complain even when He thought He would never see His Father again because of the weight of the worlds sins. I wrote this poem for encouragement.
English and Math and Science too,
created to help both me and you.
Sometimes school can get irritating,
Even with a ninety rating.
Adjectives, adverbs, and Pronouns,
These sound like words from silly clowns.
Conjunction, simile, and metaphor,
Could there possible be any more?
Now here's the stuff from treacherous math.
Was it created for causing wrath?
Minus, plus, and multiplication,
Where do we get our concentration?
Skip counting, division and Subtractions,
When you don't get it right, pull out fractions!
Some day we'll grow up big and smart,
Let's not complain, but do our part.
Photo: Christopher (foreground) and Benjamin looking at fish at the zoo.
ROB
His Work
As Cindy has mentioned in an earlier blog, it was a difficult decision for us to move to
I am the physical therapy director of a small department and each individual in our little team is committed to providing quality PT care and being a witness to the patients in every way we can.
We have Christian literature and music available in our lobby and PT department; health lectures and programs, including NEWSTART, available on a monthly basis in our wellness center; and more important, we can listen to each of these patients and personally witness to them as God provides the opportunity. To be able to work in an environment and with a team that is committed to Christ is what I had been searching for all along.
Other health ministry opportunities that I have been privileged to be involved in include: assisting with multiple health fairs; positive choices classes, including health lectures and exercise; and a mission trip to the nearby 
The Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic decided to hold health lectures and health fairs for a few weeks, culminating in an evangelistic series with Tony Moore. My family and I signed up for a weekend in February with another couple. This weekend would be a particular challenge for me because I would be giving a health lecture and preaching a sermon. I'd done these things before, but I always feel out of my comfort zone. But as I stated earlier, when you follow God's will, He will bless you.
The weekend turned out to be a wonderful experience, but not without trials along the way. Our first trial was arriving at the airport at 5:30 a.m. and finding that our plane was delayed three hours. When we finally got to fly, it was only a 30-minute flight and then we were met by pastor Undap who drove us to his house for a delicious late breakfast that his wife had prepared.
We enjoyed our first few hours on the quiet, peaceful island of only 3,500 people, and then we faced our second trial that lasted throughout the weekend. We were given a fifteen passenger van to use while on
The other trial we experienced with this van was with the transmission. Multiple times it would not go forward or reverse, but with prayer we always made it to where we needed to go. Later we discovered that the van needed transmission fluid added and it gave us no further problems throughout the rest of trip.
The last trial had to do with our personal comfort. We chose an economically priced motel that was an easy drive from our lecture hall. We discovered why it was economically priced. Cindy and I discovered something that we didn't tell the kids, since some were sleeping on the floor.....cockroaches! Fortunately, the kids didn't find out until we left and all turned out okay. As we look back we know that God allowed us these trials to strengthen us and prepare us to do more work for Him.
Sabbath was a special day for my family and me, as we conducted the majority of the church service. I had the sermon, with assistance from Cindy and Robby, and Cindy also had the children's story. Christopher had special music, Jacob had scripture, and Benjamin had prayer. It was a challenge for each one of us to do our part, but also a blessing.
The health lectures and health fair held on Sunday went well with at least 50 people attending and receiving services on an island that is isolated from many modern conveniences. Most people dont' have money to pay for health care. It was encouraging to see that people came back week after week, and were making improvements such as weight loss, decreased blood sugar, and lower blood pressure.
We also had the opportunity to do some sightseeing on the beautiful 
of
Our trip turned out to be a wonderful experience for our family to grow closer to God and each other. We overcame trials along the way which helped to accomplish this.
Rob
Photos:
1. Rob taking blood pressure during the health fair on Rota.
2. Rob having a health talk on Rota about the importance of exercise.
3. Smoking brakes on the mission van in Rota.
4. Christopher singing special music.
5. Rota Seventh-day Adventist Church.
6. Rob's coworkers Menchee (left) from Philippines and Yoshi (right) from Brazil.
7. Rob having a little quiet time on Sabbath afternoon.
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