Apologies.... and BIG news!!

To recap our last few months:

SEPTEMBER- we were appointed in as career m’s!

OCTOBER- we applied for our visas and then left for training for 2 months- the kids LOVED school and we learned A LOT, too!

NOVEMBER- After Thanksgiving we took at trip to DC to try food from our country and meet people from other countries.  We all ate really well- especially G!  He eats everything, though...

DECEMBER- marked the end of our training in the states.  It was hard to say goodbye our new “family”, we were so excited to see our families and celebrate the holidays!

To recap our last few weeks:

Andrew’s visa was approved on December 13th.  He will be flying next week to pick it up!   We found out this morning that the government will not issue our family’s visa until we have arrived in country. It could take 2 or 3 months for our visas to come through, and then we will have to make a trip back to Miami to get them. That being said....

our BIG news is that...

We.

are.

GOING.

soon!

How we're feeling now:

It’s so crazy,  exciting,  scary,  j o y f u l, 

thinking that we will be in country in about 3 weeks.

A keeps asking, “are we going to be different people when we get there?”

Sometimes it really feels that way, like we’ll be morphing into a whole new persona when we land on the other side of the pond.  Like this dream that we’ve had for so long can’t be real... that we just can’t be the same, “normal” people that we are right now...

I know that’s not the case, though.  Dad has created us to be exactly who we are and to go exactly where He is sending us.  We won’t become superhuman when the wheels touch down on the other side of the world.  Whatever we struggle with here, whatever breaks our hearts, makes us laugh.... whoever we love,  will be the same (if not more extreme) when we arrive at our new home.  

But we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that He who has provided for us, loved us, cared for us, taught us and carried us will continue to do so as we begin the next phase of the journey He has for us.  

Thank you for remembering us... we depend on you lifting us up as our lives change.

Going in peace....               .
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