Thanks for the reply! I thought that the Bowers were your cousins because of a caption on a picture of your family with the Bowers. It said, "having fun with the cousin crew". I know how it is to have close friends that feel like cousins, though! BTW, that was a funny question about the bare feet! 😉 We certainly understand why y'all do that because we live on a farm and we garden (bare foot sometimes!) too. Great response! Y'all have a blessed Season celebrating Christ's birth. I appreciate your family and ministry. Keep up the good work for Christ!

Bare feet on the farm/garden is all we've ever known! It seems that something about living in the country and being in constant contact with the earth, seems to build up a very strong resistance to sickness + disease. We have been blessed to have no broken bones in our family (a few fractures + sprains though!) But there have been an untold number of times where we had cuts that would've normally required stitches, that we choose to heal + care for ourselves. And we all managed just fine. =)
So yes, maybe for others who haven't been exposed,, it would be more of an issue, but I think because we have grown up surrounded by those things you mentioned, it probably doesn't affect us as much.

No, we aren't related to them! Just close friends!