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Leaving

2009 November 8
by Laura

As I write this, I should be packing, but we’re having a hard time finding the energy to do anything at this point. I think the emotional and physical energy we’ve exerted this past week is finally catching up to us. We said “goodbye” this morning to our friends at church and we realized how much we are going to miss our church family here. We’re also trying to leave the house in such a state that when we return in 3 months, we’re returning to order and not chaos. We also weren’t successful in selling our car, so we have a friend who is going to sell it for us. We have to make sure we have various people checking on our apartment, collecting our mail, and various other things as life here doesn’t stop while we’re gone.

We’ve spent some time talking about expectations of our trip home. We fully expect to spend a lot of time with friends and family, but with Lilli in tow this time, we realize that we’re not going to have as much time as we’d like. But we’ll do what we can and hope that’s enough. We fully expect that the US will feel somewhat foreign to us. When we first moved here, Germany seemed so foreign, but in 2 years, we’ve grown to understand and appreciate certain things that were so different. Now we’re going back to the US and it will be interesting to see what things were so common place before and are now so foreign. A lot of missionaries say they have started crying in the grocery store before because of shear frustration at the amount of choices one has to make. The cereal isle alone is enough to make some go running from the store. Will that be us? I don’t know. I wonder how large the cars are going to look to us and perhaps how huge the parking lots will be. The width of the streets is probably going to astound us. Perhaps the large houses and sprawling lawns. We are so grateful that we are able to be with you all and this is the overwhelming feeling we have right now. Pure thankfulness at God’s faithfulness. We look forward to sharing with you and being part of your lives once again!

Pray for our flight on Tuesday!

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  1. 2009 November 10
    Katherine permalink

    I can imagine how “strange” it will be coming back. Thanks for sharing so we can be more sensitive to this and not expect too much. As you mentioned, as much as you would like to do certain things, with Lilli it does limit you some. Pray you have a decent flight back and the time change won’t be too bad.

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