Home Sweet Home

Psalm 126:5-6
Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.  Those who go out weeping carrying seed to sow will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.

Yesterday as I reflected on our last weeks in America and the hardest good-byes yet, I found comfort in these words and lodged my hope in them being true for us.

Today as I sailed down towards Little Island, I was pleasantly surprised to have my eyes fill with tears of joy!  It did feel a little like coming home; like we were created for this one place, this one mission, this one assignment.  Sow, be it with tears or with joy, sow!

Thank you so much for your prayers for us as we traveled.  It was a long trip smattered with tears of exhaustion, a little puke, toilet-paper-less bathrooms and odd meals at odd times.  But we made it safe and sound.  All the bags made it and we have rested comfortably here on Big Island preparing to head to the mainland and language school in the morning.

We will hopefully have better internet on mainland and in fact, we will try to get my phone connected so I can pass on pictures more often.  Thanks so much for your love and prayers and support!!!!!

Enjoying our old favorite restaurant on Thursday night on Big Island.

Puzzle night on Friday.

 

REUNITED!!!  Missed my Fatma so much.  And I missed her home-birth. = (

Meet Samya!  Isn't she beautiful???  Please pray for this precious family.  Saidi and Fatma, their children Samir and Samya.  And Saidi's 5 other children.