Christmas letter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rT1jNGczs0


Here is a link to a video that we have posted (hopefully it works...... it's really cute). We are also posting our Christmas letter in this blog for those who are not on our MAF e-mail list. Have a great weekend!

Merry Christmas 2008


Greetings family and friends! It has been quite a year at the Dyrud household, so we will try to keep the letter to one page.

In January, Rodney and I felt the Lord leading us to begin our pursuit of joining Mission Aviation Fellowship as career missionaries. In February, we discovered that we were pregnant! March through August were spent filling out paperwork, flying airplanes and making trips to Tennessee and Idaho. The first week of August, Rodney passed his flight evaluation and we were given the go-ahead from MAF to return in January of 2009 for Candidacy School.

On September 28, Justice Kent Dyrud was born and he has been a joy in our lives; we are having fun watching him grow and we are so thankful for a healthy boy. We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to spending Christmas with family in both San Diego and Santa Ana.

We are thankful during this season for our Savior’s birth and God’s great love for us.

With love at Christmas and always, Rodney, Tammi and Justice

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