This Amazing Journey is coming to a close

Hello all!

Sad to say but for now, our journey to Salem is done.  Our team leaves tomorrow morning darkthirty.  There is one other family who is not going so we will not be all alone.  We leave Friday but the plan is to come back and re-do the Crossroads next June.   It isn't condusive to the team mentality to just show up for any outreach, that would be weird.  We have made some incredible friends at a new congregation and will definitely need to visit and do Hebrew school next summer. 

In the meantime, we will travel and try to support raise.  It will be weird to be back in the Christian churches but good I think.  I will be working part-time in places where family and friends live so I won't have to put Selah back in daycare, we will be homeschooling yay! 

I have an opportunity to do a medical missions trip tp Nepal, someplace I have wanted to go since I was 24 and medical missions is just what I want to be a part of.  I have to work out the details in the next few days. 

I am pretty sad and disappointed that we couldn't go to the Philippines, I have had a lot of tears.  But, boy Selah sure hasn't.  She has said over and over "I don't want to go the Philippines mommy!"  Anywhere else she says :-).  That's a relief.  She misses her grams, papa and uncle B and even her daddy is coming to visit!  God knows what is next and best.  I trust Him more now than ever. 

I feel like I have changed alot since being here too, so has Selah.  Her gifts have shone bright here, eeryone calls her the Broadway girl for all her singing and dancing.  They all talk about what a great prayer person she is and how the kids have had little aches and pains healed.  She has been the joy of the camp and she doesn't ever really get sad, it's pretty cool.  I feel more blessed than ever to have her.  I am less reactive than before, more tolerant and more gracious (hopefully).  And, I have made some incredible life-long friends. 

Some prayer needs:

For safe travels for the team, long flights and long bus rides with small children

Health

Divine appointments for the team in Philippines

Humility and harmony for the team too

For us:

Safe travels back to California and into Arizona

That God would lay down the foundation for people to give to our missions endeavor

Continued health

Transition for Selah & I

Thank you!  We love you :-)