Final Days in OKC

Yes, it is not Thursday-its Monday! And, yes I have been horrible about posting weekly updates. So, lets try to bring everyone up to speed on the lives of Joseph and Kendra Barnhardt!
This coming Saturday, we will bid farewell to a month long stop in Oklahoma! Our rest and relaxation of being with friends between meetings ends…Saturday we head to Wichita, Kansas until Monday then were off to a missions conference Monday-Wednesday, Thursday-Saturday morning were in another missions conference and Saturday night until Thursday morning we will be in Iowa for another missions conference! How is that for living a life on the go?!
But, since were not even to Saturday yet, let me fill you in on what has been going on! Last Sunday, the 20th we were in Edmond, Oklahoma at Lighthouse Baptist Church and it was a great meeting! During our time with them, our GPS broke on us-very discouraging as while it is a luxury it also is a necessity for making life on deputation a little more easier for us. We simply asked the Pastor for directions to get back to where we were staying and he decided right then and there that we should not have to ask for directions, we should have a GPS! So, the church bought us a new GPS! Praise the Lord! It is so awesome that even before we asked God to supply our need He took care of it!
Then on Wednesday we were in another church in Edmond and had another great meeting! Pastor Mandrino and his wife, used to be missionaries themselves to Singapore and China. They took us to dinner and were such an encouragement to us, without even saying a word to what we have been feeling lately, it was as if God told them and they began to encourage us! Thank the Lord for encouragement from people that walk with Him!
Yesterday, we were in Luther, Oklahoma for a Sunday meeting and we had a great time! Joseph did primary church-he claims to not be a kid person; but he really does such a good job when he teaches them! He gets right down to their level! Joseph really is a great teacher and preacher! I am so thankful that the Lord allows me to see that side of my husband every week that he preaches or teaches in a church!
What have we been doing inbetween those meetings?! Well, we stayed in Edmond a t a prophets chamber from Wednesday night until last night and we enjoyed being together! One day Joseph took me to Olive Garden for lunch and spoiled me with some new pajamas! We also visited, Pops in Arcadia. Pops, basically sells any kind and flavor of pop that you want and that has ever been made! It was a fun little touristy thing to do; but in our opinion it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be!
This week, our last week here in Oklahoma City will be fun! Tomorrow, I get to do lunch with Mrs. Copes, the wife of the VP of Heartland Baptist Bible College-she is someone I always looked up to while I was a student at Heartland and so I am really thankful for the time I will get to spend with her! Tomorrow night, Joseph and I will also be going to dinner with the Goforths-a couple from Southwest Baptist Church that have become like family to me! Thursday, is going to be a good, yet sad day! Good because Joseph gets to celebrate his birthday; but sad because he is now officially reaching the point in his life that he can no longer be young-he turns thirty-yes, I said 30! He is aging on me so fast…I just hope we can cherish the last few days of him being young…haha!