After having been on American soil for 3 days....
...and Mexican for one day...
We will be taking our furlough (home assignment) for the months of June and July and we hope to see many of you while we are there!
A lot of what we will be doing is re-connecting with several of our EMC churches - through reporting on Sunday mornings, attending our own Kleefeld EMC's family camp, and we will also be at the EMC Convention in Brandon in July.
If any of you will be at these places, we would love to visit and share about our life and what God is doing in Mexico. Once you get us started...you might not get us to stop talking about our life here. Just a heads up ;) But we also want to hear about your lives, about what God is doing in Canada, and just spend that time re-connecting and maybe meeting you for the first time.
I know some of you reading this are not in Canada or in Manitoba....wish we were visiting you also...
We also have the privilege of having a "daughter" for the months we are there! We have been "entrusted" with a 17 year old girl from our church here in Guadalajara, and she will be visiting churches with us and will be taking a training program at a Christian camp in July, which will be such a great opportunity for her. So look for her, she would love to talk with you as well. She is like family to us and while I'm sure it will be different having a teenager with us, we do look forward to showing her where we are from.
This was the last time we went to Canada, which was 2 years ago. The boys were just a wee bit excited. Not much has changed. They have those blankets, Logan has no shirt on...
That time we flew though, this time we will be driving up as we need to remove our Manitoba plated vehicle from Mexico, as we are now Residents here in Mexico. We already bought a replacement van here, so we will need to sell ours when we get to Manitoba! More info to come on that, probably on Facebook ;)
We all 5 can say that we will miss our people here in Guadalajara while we are gone. It's hard to leave relationships and ministries, but we know it's for a short time. We also miss our people in Canada and will enjoy that time with them to the fullest!
...this is the way overseas life goes, and we are thankful for the opportunity to visit and share our lives with people from all over the place. It means saying a lot of good-byes, but also a lot of hello's, and it's always a lot of fun anticipating that "hello".
Just don't be surprised if our hello when we see you in Canada includes a hug, a back slap, a puño (figure that one out), and maybe a kiss on the cheek.
Just warnin' ya. We'll try to catch ourselves.
I'll leave you with the foods Carter told me today he is looking forward to having at his Grandparent's houses:
G&G Wiebe - cinnamon buns
G&G Zac - bbq and salad (??!)
G&G Harder (great-grandparents) - perogies and white cookies
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