It's time to meet the youngest member of our family....Hine. She is 18 months old and an absolute delight. We got her as a baby (just 6 weeks old) from another missio family and we have loved her ever since. Now it is time to prepare to say goodbye to her. This is the hard part!

Last week we undertook to pray and ask God to find a home for our car and He answered. This week we are praying for a home for Hine (which means girl in Maori). Last night a friend came round and said that his mum was looking for a cat. Could this be the answer to our prayer? He called her and she was delighted so it was set that she will leave us either this weekend or the next. She's off to Manabi to live on a farm, roam all day and hunt rats and other things. She loves to do that here so it will be a real treat fo her. We know they will treat her well and love her as they are animal people. We are planning on packing up some of her treat things...a nice woolly blanket that she snuggles, her food bowl and food and bouncy balls.

Even thinking about her leaving has hit us all hard. It makes life seem so final here (which I guess it is). But to have her leave is like leaving behind a member of our family. That is surely going to be a sad day.