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Welcome back to Happiness, Pennsylvania, where the Amish struggle to solve problems, marry, have children, work hard and worship God. His Suitable Amish Wife is Ellie Stoltzfus’s story. You may have read about her four sisters, Nell, Meg, Leah and Charlie. Ellie sees her sisters happy with their husbands, and she longs for a loving husband and children of her own. But she falls for the wrong man. A widower with a little son. A man who has decided, after the death of his wife, that he won’t marry for love. But he will take a wife to be the mother of his child.
Ellie shouldn’t like the man, but she can see the good in him. Reuben Miller was once her sister’s beau, although the couple split up after her sister realized she was in love with another man. Unwittingly, she finds herself babysitting for the man’s son, and thus Ellie can’t avoid Reuben. There is so much to worry about. So much to overcome. But Ellie has a strength about her that guides her with the Lord’s help. Now if only the man would cooperate.
I hope you enjoy Ellie’s story. She is a young woman who takes responsibility seriously, someone who needs her happily-ever-after with the man she loves.
Blessings and light,
Rebecca
With love for my niece Sarah, my brother’s daughter, who has grown up to be a sweet, loving and hardworking young woman. I’m so proud of you.
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Elizabeth Stoltzfus stared at the small residence surrounded by a yard filled with junk—wood scraps, rusted cars and other debris she couldn’t identify. She’d been cleaning houses for years now, but she’d never seen a place like this. The family who’d recently moved to their church district lived here? This was the place the bishop wanted her to clean?
She frowned. The house wasn’t large enough for a typical Amish family, and it certainly wasn’t big enough to warrant a cleaning lady. But she’d do it because Bishop John had asked her, although she was afraid of what she might find inside.
She steered her buggy to the end of the driveway, where she secured her horse to the hitching post, which looked brand-new. Ellie reached into the back of her vehicle for her cleaning supplies, including her broom. When she cleaned houses for the English, she used her clients’ vacuum cleaners. Her corn broom or a damp mop was the best way to clean Amish floors, most of which were made of wood or linoleum.
She approached the side door with her plastic supply tote in one hand and broom in the other. She leaned the broom handle against the building and rapped hard on the door. A child’s high-pitched cry rent the silence before the door opened. A young woman with a baby on her hip studied her, then saw the supplies and smiled with relief.
“Sarah Miller?” Ellie realized the woman was actually a teenage girl.
“Ja, I’m Sarah. Come in,” СКАЧАТЬ