Linda Welch:  

Life Okay, let's see if I can do a bio in 4000 characters or less spanning 30-some-odd years...I think the limit is meant to keep us humble. However, just realizing I'm talking about that many years--is humbling enough!;) Let's see...I have been married 3 times (hope springs eternal) had two children by birth and two by marriage--all loved equally from the heart--2 boys, 2 girls ages 18 to 32 as of this year. No grandkids, yet--I may have to adopt. I lived in Pennsylvania for a time and various other towns in Oklahoma, as well as Germany for 2 1/2 years. After living in Germany about 8 months, my sister was coming for a visit and we had to pick her up at the train station. Hopelessly lost, I was driving madly through Bremen with my friend in the front seat navigating with a map and our kids in the backseat who were both yelling for the bathroom. Finally, I told my friend Patsy, to roll the window down at a stop light so I could ask directions. The hippie-looking guy sitting in his van next to us looked startled as I yelled out one of the few German phrases I knew, "Wo ist die Zugstation?" (Where is the train station?) He shot back a confused/frantic look (probably mirroring mine) then finally yelled back as the light changed, "I'm sorry, I don't speak German!" Patsy and I looked at each other with dumbfounded expressions, then burst out laughing. I told her it was just as well--I probably wouldn't have understood him if he'd given me directions in German, anyway. We finally found the train station, though. At the age of 23--living in Germany--I accepted Jesus as my Savior and have enjoyed His awesome presence ever since! My life before Jesus, reminds me of that day we were looking for the train station--utter confusion and frustration--but, o...Expand for more