A TEARY GOOD-BYE TO OUR FRIENDS

Wow, our first trip back home to Chicago in almost a year. The day after the team from Houston left, Paula, Raul and I went to the colonia to organize some of the things we didn't have a chance to give away on Sunday. We also had to order the wood for the house we will start building with another group from Seattle that will arrive here the day after we get back. We took a bunch of those 2 lb banquet meals a good friend gave us and we didn't have the room in our freezer so we took them with us. We straightened out all the piles of stuff and put them in the loft of Daniels and Carmens house. We really need to build a house for us to store all the things we bring across. Someday!! We ate with all our friends that helped us so much on Sunday, we couldn't have done it without them. Tears filled our eyes, just as they are right now as I type this, as we said goodbye and hugged one-another. We have been with these guys almost every day for the past eight months, they are family. It's like when we said goodbye to our daughter Kristin last year and all our friends, it was so hard. But, we'll be back and we do need the rest. The long hot 100 degree plus days has us pretty tired and needing this trip to see family and friends and maybe raise some support while were there.Most missionaries do that before they go into the field but were not most missionaries, God said GO and we went, period!!