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Today marks the one month milestone of waiting on our Visas. Since it is such an important day, I thought I would take the time to let you know what we have been doing while we wait.
We have been blessed that although we don't have a home of our own, we have no shortage of places to live. So many wonderful and generous friends have offered to let us stay with them.
Our home base is my parents house on Buck Mountain in Dover, AR. They provided a storage room for us to keep the things we packed up from our home. And they have also given us a room of our own to use when we need it. We spent one week at my sister's house in Hot Springs. They have an RV and let us live in it, but I spent most of my time there at the house having fun with Genny. Most recently we have been traveling. We spent a weekend in Searcy at a chorale reunion at Harding and then went to Oklahoma City for a few nights on our way to the Stamps Family Reunion (my dad's family) in Southwest Oklahoma. That was a very blessed time with family and well worth having to delay our trip to Brazil. Now we are in Arlington, Texas visiting our good friends, Ryan and Amy Gibbons. Amy is directing a day camp at her church this week, and I have been able to help out a little.
All this while, Greg has continued to work full-time at his job. As long as he has electricity, he can work where-ever we are, so he just sets up and does his work (even in the car sometimes). I have spent my time in a variety of ways, just doing whatever comes up each day. It is very strange for me to have no real responsibilities. No job to go back to, no house to tend to. I haven't felt this free since my early college years.
We are still trusting God as we wait. We are excited to get to Brazil and join the work there, but we are just trying to make the most of each moment and opportunity and just serve Him by serving those around us and doing the work that is before us.

"Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary." ~Isaiah 40:31
May we all learn the freedom and peace that comes from living each day in the center of God's will!