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Oh The Places You’ll Go
As of tomorrow we are one month away from moving to La Ceiba, Honduras (June 25th). For the few of you who have been along for the ride from the beginning you know that it has been a long journey. It has been over three years since Mike took Erin out to dinner and so smoothly popped the question, “So, what do you think about doing this missionary thing fulltime?” To which Erin responded, “What took you so long?”
We sent in applications to MTW 36 months ago, prayerfully accepted God’s call to go to Honduras 27 months ago, started our training and evaluation 26 months ago, sold our house 23 months ago, quit our jobs 18 months ago, started support raising 17 months ago, left California for Costa Rica to study Spanish 9 months ago…and now here we are…one month away from moving to Honduras.
We are sitting in our little apartment in San Jose, Costa Rica planning goodbye meals with new friends, thinking about packing (but, not actually doing it), getting our vast amount of immigration documents together, bringing our Spanish study to an end, and praying, planning and theorizing about the future.
The last three years seems like one major decision or action followed by another. The important thing that we take away from the past three years is the ease in which it has all occurred. Quitting jobs, selling belongings, being trained and evaluated, raising support, leaving friends and learning Spanish should not have been this easy. God has really coddled us for the past three years and made our way smooth. Let’s pray it continues.