All Good Things Must Come to an End

After 8 weeks of tough, exciting, challenging, and ever stretching training, our orientaion time came to an end. On September 21st, we finished up our training time and headed back to NC. Our last week there was a time of celebration, reflection, and goodbyes to people that we’ve grown to love. There is no way that we can explain the bonds that were made in such a short time. When you’re united in a love, a passion, and a call like we were with these folks, friendship comes quickly. They are about the only people in the world who are not wondering if we’ve lost our minds!

The last week, the kids had an open house to show off all of the research and projects that they’d been working on for the past 8 weeks. These kids really came to love and respect their teachers, our family’s call, and the country that will soon be our home. We couldn’t be more pleased with the way they prepared our children.

Here are a few pics of our last days in the bubble:

Abby, showing off her hard work.

Lizzy and her friend Emma.

Isaac and his projects.

Lily is so proud of her hard work.

Abby and her fabulous teacher, Mr. Dustin

Ms. Becky won Lily's heart from the start, what a gift she was.

Our good friends, the Nemitz family came to see our commissioning service. Afterwards, their son Ian declared that he was going to be a missionary to Thebes. (Can you tell that they're currently studying ancient history?)

Oh, how Abe loved this dear friend. He is still talking about him nearly every day. Maybe someday, their paths will cross again.