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Hello everyone from the Bansen clan in California. We are all doing good and are being stretched in our roles here on base as Ginger and I each lead our different departments. Our apologies for the length of time it has been now since our last blog post. We would like to catch you all up on what has been going on these past seven months since our last blog communication.

We are currently working on our newsletter, which will fill in all of the gaps. I do want to just share this praise report with you all. It does have a bit to do with why we have been so long in our communications and it really seems like it has been just one more thing in mix of busy-ness here.

At the beginning of the year, we began to have operational difficulties with our older laptop. So, upon great need we then proceeded to wipe out the hard drive of the computer, reformat the hard drive and begin again from square one. Only after we had done this did we discover how difficult it really is to recover anything from this backup unit. I tried for a long time to do it (months...don't ask me why it took so long), I could only find a plethera of folders marked with numbers which meant nothing to me.

The more I tried to find our precious documents folder the more desperate I became and the more I tried to decipher the instructions which came with the back-up software of the external drive. It was almost despair, I'm not trying to be dramatic, there was so much to lose in that folder. Finally, during a conversation with a buddy here on base, I mentioned this situation to him. He wanted to try something different on the software. We got into it and discovered that a critical peice of information was missing...the catalog file! (I know - this is the long drawn out version, but hey, you haven't heard from us in awhile). The information is stored in the backup drive like you could store the furniture of your house in a storage unit and the catalog file is the map and list of where each item is located in that storage unit. Well now imagine a full storage unit with no map or list. We did manage to recreate the catalog list and 'vuola' our things unfolded and identified themselves! Can you tell this was a huge hurdle for us...I'm not very computer literate. We prayed and God opened this up to us! And a huge thank you to my buddy James who figured out the hierogliphics of the software!

And thanks for your prayers and interest in this blog and in what we are doing! Watch for our newsletter in the mail soon! (And if you're reading this, but don't yet receive our newsletters, send us a note with your address--email or snailmail...)
Shawn