Summer Highlights

I wanted to give everyone an update on this past summer.  It was an incredibly good and busy summer in between the school year.  Here are a few of the highlights!

Trip to South Asia

Brita and I traveled to South Asia for 11 days at the end of June.  We went with three other families planning to serve long term in this area.  Brita and were so thankful to see the potential area To Every Tribe would serve in South Asia.  We mailed out a brief  sample of our trip and will be devoting a post to the trip in the near future.  Stay tuned!!

Family!

 

One of the best highlights of the summer was getting to spend some time with our family.  This was especially sweet for both sets of grandparents and I'm convinced even more that being a grandparent is icing on the cake, and there were plenty of treats to spoil all the kids ten times over!   We took advantage of the mountains and did a lot of hiking and huckleberry picking.  We even had some time for fishing some high mountain lakes!  The kids loved playing with their Nardinger cousins and looking for snakes and frogs in "The Bog"!

 

Reconnecting with Friends and Supporters
The other best highlight was to spend time reconnecting with some of our supporters and friends in Montana.  I say some because  we were hindered from seeing most of our supporters by 1.) the South Asia trip and 2.) Josh worked at A.M. Welles for a bit of June and all of July.

The South Asia trip was only 11 days but it took a tremendous amount of time to get organized and prepared for.  Not only that, we had to get everything ready for the kids to stay at the grandparents houses while we were gone.

Working for A. M. Welles was great! It allowed me to earn some needed income and they even put up with my schedule.  They are a great company and I am so thankful to be able to work with them.  I was able to build 3D models for the GPS dozers and graders as well as help manage the field end of one of their highway projects.  I can never get enough of designing a curve in a road and see a piece of equipment cut the design out of the dirt within a half inch tolerance.  But I'm geeky like that!

The down side was that we weren't able to see most of our friends and supporters.  So please forgive us for that!  There were so many of you we had hoped to reconnect with but it didn't happen.  Don't give up on us!  We are so excited to spend time with you this next June and July Lord willing.

As for now, we are knee deep in the first two weeks of school and feel like we come up for air sometimes.  My goal is to continue to get out more frequent and more concise blogs about what's happening with our training and the mission work we are in the midst of in Mexico.  So please check back on this blog or subscribe in the upper right corner of this page to get our updates.

Next up:
-South Asia Update
-Second Year training