A Few of Tyler's Pictures

I have to take a moment and post just a few of Tyler's pictures he took while in Afghanistan...

Remember back in one of my February posts, Tyler was promoted to Corporal. Here's a couple of shots from that day!!

Tyler's the 2nd guy from the right

It's hard to imagine a ceremony like this right out in the middle of the desert!

His friend Justin Decker is doing the honors of pinning on his new badge.

Tyler loved seeing all the kids in Marjah and took alot of great shots of them

Look at this one! I just might have to get this framed!!

He said some of them were really nice and some of them were mean!

They would all come up every day and just stare at them and try to figure out what they were doing.

Tyler said he became friends with this boy and they would try to teach each other how to speak the others' language.

This was at one of the memorial services for a fallen marine.
It was Tyler's responsibility on several occasions to pick the music
and get the sound equipment ready for the services.

The famous poppy growing in the fields

Tyler on patrol in the streets of Marjah

Tyler & Decker, his superior, geared up for patrol duty

Well, he's home! And oh the joy that floods my soul (as the old song says)! I really cannot articulate how good it is to know he's home and safe. And I could never thank the Lord enough (nor all of you reading that have prayed for him) for answering our prayers! God is faithful. I was reminded of the power of prayer again recently after reading Genesis 18 when Abraham prayed for God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah (because his nephew Lot lived there). Well, as it turned out, God did have to destroy the cities but it says in chapter 19, verse 29, "So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived." God hears us when we pray!

More later...