Life in God's Country

The past three weeks starting out in Cape have been great! One of the great things is that I have been able to bake and use my beautiful red Kitchen-Aid Mixer. I'm trying to think about what to name it. As most people know, my car's name is Mona and Nate's truck's name is Black Magic. I'll have to think about that one. So far I have made chocolate chip cream cheese bars which were a big hit on the 4th of July when we went to Lanny's. I made camp coffee cake. :) And today I made apple crisp. I'm not done yet either. I'm trying to think of what the next thing that I bake might be.



Last week on Monday morning, I was surprised by a most repulsive smell in our house. Knowing that the sewage had backed up in the basement of this house before, I really didn't want to check the basement and have that be the case. I looked in a bunch of places and then finally checked the basement. Sure enough...sewage. The pastor and his family generously took us into their house for a few nights while the plumbing was getting fixed. Turns out that there was a 5 gallon buckets worth of 1-inch gravel in the plumbing line in the backyard. They even had to tear up the street behind the house. It was kind of a bummer but it built character when we had to clean up the basement. We learned something new! Haha.

The congregation here has really been taking care of us. They have given us lots and lots of veggies. Today we were given a great deal of meat and some freshly smoked ribs. AMAZING! We are so blessed!

Last Sunday was the first week that Nate preached at Hanover. He did great. It starts with the readings. You can watch it by going to http://www.facebook.com/HanoverLutheran?ref=ts. It is not actually 20 minutes long, it starts with the readings. You can also go to Hanover Lutheran Church on itunes and download the podcast.

That is all for now. :) God is good!

We've Moved!

Almost two weeks ago Nate and I moved to Cape Girardeau, MO for his vicarage. We were welcomed with a counter full of food, a wonderful house and wonderful people. It took us a few days to get settled but we have definitely made this place our home for a year. We have been so excited to finally get to use our wedding gifts. Everything is new and works great. I will be posting pictures of the church and our home on this site and you can also go to them by going to facebook.



Our House



The sign at the church welcoming Nate!
God is good!

Nate and Kate in the "Badger" State

It is the season of weddings! Nate and I spent a week in Wisconsin going to the weddings of Becky and Clay Buie and Chris and Rachel Davis. Nate DJ'd the Hillenbrand-Buie wedding and he was in the Davis-Kirk Wedding. We had a great time celebrating the weddings of both couples. These marked weddings 2 and 3 of 4 weddings in a row. We were invited to 13 weddings this spring/summer; we will not be attending them all. We wish all of the couple best wishes though. We have been so blessed to share these great times with our close friends.



We had a great time hanging out with many people that we hadn't seen in a while in Wisconsin. There are things that I won't miss about Wisconsin like scraping the ice off the inside of my window and driving in the snow. Nate would have snow everyday if it were possible. He loves it. I like to look at it for a couple days and then it can melt. The brown snow that sticks around for 3 months just isn't my thing. We do miss all of the people that live in Wisconsin and that we went to school with at Concordia. We had a great time hanging out with the Kelm family, who was nice enough to put us up for the week. We visited Pizza Shuttle, which is where we "met" and where we spent many good times. The best part was seeing all of the people though.

We will be heading to Indiana, Connecticut and Canada next! Stay tuned!

Cape Girardeau

Turns out we are going to Cape Girardeau, MO! Looks like our blog is going to be called Nate and Kate in the "Show Me" State for a while now. We are very excited about going to "The Cape". It is going to be a very good fit for us. There is a possible job opportunity for me as well which is a very good thing. Nate will begin on July 1. He will get installed on July 4 and the pastor said he had fireworks around the nation planned for him. We're feeling like kind of a big deal. Haha. We are excited to be in a church that is older than the LCMS. There is a lot of very cool history in the church that we are going to. The church is just south of the birthplace of the LCMS, Perry county. I am looking forward to the small town feel of Cape even though it is a bigger town. I also am excited for the southern "boot-heel" feel of Cape. It will be a great time.


This is a picture of the bridge over the Mississippi in Cape.

In other news, we bought a truck. It is a black Chevy S-10. We said good-bye to the Blazer aka the White Low Rider last weekend. We felt like we were betraying the White Low Rider as we drove it to Ohio to switch it out with the new truck aka Black Magic. If you are wondering why the Blazer was called the White Low Rider and the truck is called Black Magic, it is because my dad likes to give pretty much everything nicknames. It makes things interesting. So now we have a Black Magic Pickup.



That's all for now!

Countdown to Call Day

Hello Everyone!

This week is a big week for us. We are finding out this week where we will be spending all of next year on vicarage. We are very excited and can't wait to find out where we will be going. Nate is as usual very busy with seminary life. This is week seven of ten, things are slowly winding down. If you would like to view the vicarage service this Tuesday, it is at 3 p.m. and you can follow this link:

http://cslmedia.org/callday/watch.php

As for me (Katie), things at school are going at full speed too. About a month ago I started teaching 6-8 Language Arts, 6th Religion and 6th Literature at an inner city Lutheran school. I am filling in for a maternity leave for the rest of the school year. It has been a very good learning experience full of joys and challenges.

That is pretty much all for now. Feel free to comment and share with others. :)

P.S. Our wedding pictures are also up!