Home Sweet Home

We made it home last night sometime after midnight, after a delayed flight in Miami.

We had a fantastic time in Frankfort and in Illinois with Mark and Meg.

We spent time with our church family and a few other friends and family Friday night. What a blessing to be with them again. It was encouraging and exciting to be with them and Mark and Meg, now after serving with Mark and Meg for the past nine months. We are blessed to have the covering of their prayers. It was hard to say goodbye to them, especially hard for me to say goodbye to some of my youth group girls. (Te quiero mucho, mis amigas!)

We spent some time getting to know some friends from EWO on their turf and it was such a blessing to get to see them again. The biggest blessing for me was the gift of having my parents travel with us to Illinois and share in the fellowship we had with this church family. My dad had never met Mark and Meg, so it was really encouraging for me to have the pleasure to introduce them. Matt and I were really blessed to share time with Rod and Cathy and their kids. We appreciate our friends at EWO in Normal, Illinois!

After travelling from Bloomington, IL to Naperville for the last night of our time in the states we were all pretty wiped. But we really enjoyed fellowship with some of Mark and Meg's closest friends on Sunday night. It was fun seeing them in their element with their oldest friends.

After two uneventful flights, we made it back and today have been unpacking and reorganizing and getting some errands done. Tomorrow, Matt will start back at school, although classes actually began last Wednesday. The kids and will will finish up their school year within the next few weeks and then will have the summer off. I'll begin tutoring soon. I will also begin discipling a teacher friend of mine this week or next. Please pray for this relationship to bloom and for her to grow in the Lord. More to come on this in the future.

We enjoyed our time in the states, but truly are glad to be home. We have realized that despite the pain we have when the time comes to say goodbye to loved ones, we are truly called to be here in Costa Rica. And, for now, Costa Rica is our home. Near the end of the trip, Audrey had begun asking us if we could just go back home to Costa Rica. What a blessing from the Lord for even our youngest child to have grasped where our home is now...We are thankful for the many blessings the Lord provided while we were on our trip. We are also thankful and appreciative of all who sacrificed for our benefit and to meet our needs in the way of a vehicle, financially, through shelter, meals or just providing fellowship. We thank the Lord Jesus Christ for all of our partnering friends, family and church families.