John left early early Sunday morning to travel to Wainwright, AB. He will be there till the 27th of May. He is doing his last bit of heavy training for Afganistan.

Saturday morning he woke me up to tell me that one of our platoon members was killed in Afganistan. Matthew Dinning was a member of 2 MP Platoon I don’t recall meeting him but I know I must have crossed paths with him at some point. John was doing ok he was clearly a bit shaken up about it. I don’t blame him he is going over there in Aug and he knows the dangers he is going to experience.

I worry for John not for his physical safety but for the problems he will have dealing with the stresses that he will endure. I am thankfull for the support of the church members here in Petawawa and also for the direction our life is headed. John has recieved a number of blessings over the past couple of months to help him get through and the main thing that is repeated and repeated is that he will not be harmed and that he will return to us safe. The last blessing he recieved mentioned that this will be his last tour in his career. I am happy for that as well as a bit let down. I like that John has the opportunity to go to these places in the world to help others of different nations. (also in a greedy way I was hoping for one more tour so we could use it to get off to a good financial kick off)

The other thing that the blessings mention is that he is going where the Lord wants him to go. He is going to put to work for the lord there in some capacity. He has been released from his callings here at the church but he has been told that he will be called to something before he leaves. John has a strong spirit and a strong although quiet testimony. I know that where ever he is he is doing the lords work.