Here comes a pretty scattered post.
We are leaving so soon! :( It's so sad. I don't even know how to explain what I'm feeling. Like I just said, I'm so sad, but also I think this is as ready as I'll ever be. I really don't know how much more of this "last time" stuff I can take. :(
This is basically what we live right now: We just had breakfast with some good good friends for the last time. We eat at Mom and Dad's like..every night (cause we'll miss them so much,PLUS all my ingredients are...I actually don't know where they are!). We have so many boxes in our house. I still have some last minute packing to do. It actually feels like a lot of last minute packing. I have to think if it's the last time I'll see someone every time I see a friend. We try going to every (extended) family event because it's "the last time"? I'm going shopping with my brother and sister and husband because it sounds fun. I really don't have time, but it'll be fun and I'll wish I went later. That's really how I sum up this paragraph. We are SO busy because we do everything because we'll wish for it later...I just dont feel like this paragraph makes sense. :)
As of now, we are planning on leaving Friday sometime. We'll load up both vehicles as much as we can and drive down to MS for some Graber time! We're actually stopping in VA to see some relatives on our way to MS, which is a nice break up point. We'll stay overnight Friday. Then Saturday we'll finish our drive to MS. I'm not sure how long we'll be there, but after that, Dustin and I will take the car to CA and a friend of Dustin's will take our truck (thankyousomcuhFredcauseIdon'tthinkIcoulddriveouttoLAbymyself) out a few weeks later. So those are our plans! That should get us out to LA like middle of January, I think?
Please pray for us! For traveling mercies. And also that we would just be prepared for the end of this week...for moving!
Monday, December 23, 2013
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
I WILL learn....
SPANISH! I will learn Spanish.
(PS. It took me like...5 minutes to remember how to sign in to my very own blog......cricket cricket...this blogging might take a while to get used to. NBD. Cause I obviously figured it out. :)
But anyways. Yes, I'm going to learn Spanish! Now that I've said that like 5 times now, I'll explain.
First off, DNI (The "mission board" we're going under) I think requires taking like a year of Spanish before you move to LA. I could be wrong, but that's just what I remember hearing/reading. So here we are like a month from moving, not knowing any Spanish. Except like gracias and de nada and espanol...I could so not get by with those words.
Now here is an exciting part. My former boss, Kent Lapp, was super gracious by giving us his Rosetta Stone program! All I've heard about that program is great things...it's apparently the way to go when learning Spanish. But me and Dustin have kind of lacked commitment to it yet (Don't worry, Kent. We'll use it. :). I'm guessing we'll start once we're actually out there.
Now here is a sad story. The other day I was at the post office and there was a young Mexican (I guess?) guy in front of me. He was just kind of mumbling something and the clerk said, "OH! You're waiting on a fax! Well, I don't have one. Nothing recently came through." Silence. Then more mumbling from the guy. "Oh you want to fax something?". More mumbling. Super broken English. "I'm sorry, honey, I just can't understand you." Then she looks around the room and says, "Does anyone here know Spanish?" And you know what? No one did! He just turned around and left. He looked kind of frustrated/defeated/embarrassed.
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW FRUSTRATING THAT WOULD BE??
I felt so bad for him! So that's when I reminded myself that I AM learning Spanish..someday...SOON.
Keep us accountable, guys!
(PS. It took me like...5 minutes to remember how to sign in to my very own blog......cricket cricket...this blogging might take a while to get used to. NBD. Cause I obviously figured it out. :)
But anyways. Yes, I'm going to learn Spanish! Now that I've said that like 5 times now, I'll explain.
First off, DNI (The "mission board" we're going under) I think requires taking like a year of Spanish before you move to LA. I could be wrong, but that's just what I remember hearing/reading. So here we are like a month from moving, not knowing any Spanish. Except like gracias and de nada and espanol...I could so not get by with those words.
Now here is an exciting part. My former boss, Kent Lapp, was super gracious by giving us his Rosetta Stone program! All I've heard about that program is great things...it's apparently the way to go when learning Spanish. But me and Dustin have kind of lacked commitment to it yet (Don't worry, Kent. We'll use it. :). I'm guessing we'll start once we're actually out there.
Now here is a sad story. The other day I was at the post office and there was a young Mexican (I guess?) guy in front of me. He was just kind of mumbling something and the clerk said, "OH! You're waiting on a fax! Well, I don't have one. Nothing recently came through." Silence. Then more mumbling from the guy. "Oh you want to fax something?". More mumbling. Super broken English. "I'm sorry, honey, I just can't understand you." Then she looks around the room and says, "Does anyone here know Spanish?" And you know what? No one did! He just turned around and left. He looked kind of frustrated/defeated/embarrassed.
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW FRUSTRATING THAT WOULD BE??
I felt so bad for him! So that's when I reminded myself that I AM learning Spanish..someday...SOON.
Keep us accountable, guys!
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Reasons for my blog and such..
Hi! So here I am...finally getting my blog started. Believe it or not, I am a procrastinator, not just a trend follower. :) Either way, I do have a main purpose for starting a blog.
Wow.
Where do I start. Some (hopefully many) of you may know this story already.
Dustin and I have always known we've wanted to get involved in missions. He was up at NYP for a year of voluntary service, and I was up there for their six week summer camps (that's actually how we met), in addition to both of us doing other short term missions. We both loved mission work! It's so fulfilling to us, and not at all that that should be your sole purpose in doing missions, but it just felt..complete or something. I don't even know if I can fully explain it.
Anyways so we've always know that even before we were married. We figured we'd settle in somewhere for a year or two, then pursue some mission opportunities.
We actually didn't really know where to start "looking"! We both loved NYP, but at the time, there weren't very many positions open. Dustin has had a fascination for the west since he was a kid, so that seemed like a starting place at least!
This past summer we took a 2 or 3 week out west trip. It was like..the funnest thing ever. :) We drove all. the. time. That part wasn't the funnest. But we saw tons of beautiful mountainous scenes (In real life! Not just in pictures!), met old and new friends, toured a lot of different places, and checked out 2 or 3 missions (Secretly, that was our main purpose for the trip.).
We came home and prayed about the opportunities we saw while out there, but one kept coming back. I think secretly we knew which one we'd end up at. We had felt so much peace there--Dustin personally and me personally. That in itself was a breath of fresh air...a big go-ahead from God, it seemed. So we started making plans.
We are going to move to Los Angeles, California! It honestly looks so big and scary right now. I do know though that I am excited to see what God's going to do and what I'll learn there.
When we decided on LA, it was amazing to see the doors opening up. Dustin got a job lined up soon after that (he'll be working as an excavator or something similar to that). The pastor there opened his home up to us while we look for an apartment or house to rent. We got people lined up to help us make the drive out there. God is so good. :)
So yea, it'll be more like a "lifestyle" ministry if that makes sense. We'll be helping out with church planting there, just trying to build relationships with anyone we meet. I don't know for sure if I'll get a job or not..I think I'll play that one by ear.
We'll be moving a few days after Christmas of this year. We'll have Christmas here, drive both our vehicles down south for the MS Christmas, then from MS drive to California.
I personally have so many mixed feelings about it. It's hard to imagine actually living somewhere else. It all seems so surreal.
Basically this blog post has two reasons. I didn't feel like all my friends knew about it, and I wanted to take time to explain it to them. Also, I want to keep up with it up until and after we're out there!
Please pray for us if you think about us!
Thanks for taking the time to read my post. :)
Gina
Wow.
Where do I start. Some (hopefully many) of you may know this story already.
Dustin and I have always known we've wanted to get involved in missions. He was up at NYP for a year of voluntary service, and I was up there for their six week summer camps (that's actually how we met), in addition to both of us doing other short term missions. We both loved mission work! It's so fulfilling to us, and not at all that that should be your sole purpose in doing missions, but it just felt..complete or something. I don't even know if I can fully explain it.
Anyways so we've always know that even before we were married. We figured we'd settle in somewhere for a year or two, then pursue some mission opportunities.
We actually didn't really know where to start "looking"! We both loved NYP, but at the time, there weren't very many positions open. Dustin has had a fascination for the west since he was a kid, so that seemed like a starting place at least!
This past summer we took a 2 or 3 week out west trip. It was like..the funnest thing ever. :) We drove all. the. time. That part wasn't the funnest. But we saw tons of beautiful mountainous scenes (In real life! Not just in pictures!), met old and new friends, toured a lot of different places, and checked out 2 or 3 missions (Secretly, that was our main purpose for the trip.).
We came home and prayed about the opportunities we saw while out there, but one kept coming back. I think secretly we knew which one we'd end up at. We had felt so much peace there--Dustin personally and me personally. That in itself was a breath of fresh air...a big go-ahead from God, it seemed. So we started making plans.
We are going to move to Los Angeles, California! It honestly looks so big and scary right now. I do know though that I am excited to see what God's going to do and what I'll learn there.
When we decided on LA, it was amazing to see the doors opening up. Dustin got a job lined up soon after that (he'll be working as an excavator or something similar to that). The pastor there opened his home up to us while we look for an apartment or house to rent. We got people lined up to help us make the drive out there. God is so good. :)
So yea, it'll be more like a "lifestyle" ministry if that makes sense. We'll be helping out with church planting there, just trying to build relationships with anyone we meet. I don't know for sure if I'll get a job or not..I think I'll play that one by ear.
We'll be moving a few days after Christmas of this year. We'll have Christmas here, drive both our vehicles down south for the MS Christmas, then from MS drive to California.
I personally have so many mixed feelings about it. It's hard to imagine actually living somewhere else. It all seems so surreal.
Basically this blog post has two reasons. I didn't feel like all my friends knew about it, and I wanted to take time to explain it to them. Also, I want to keep up with it up until and after we're out there!
Please pray for us if you think about us!
Thanks for taking the time to read my post. :)
Gina
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