One week down, four and a half months to go!

Wow, the first week of our training is over, but it seems like we've been at it a lot longer than a week! Not that it's bad (it's actually very good), it's just the transition to a new house, career, and schedule that I think is exhausting. We're happy for the weekend to be here, but learned so much this week. We realize we have a lot of improvement to make on our deputation service, so we're somewhat thankful that we have some time to change things around before our next one. Always something to do!

Jake is handling the transition to being in day care well, he really enjoys playing with the other kids (he's the youngest of the eight MKs). What he really seems to like most is the older girls being big sisters to him all day long. We can tell that he wants/needs a sibling! :)

We are also enjoying getting to know the other families that we're her with, they are great people. Not even a bad egg in the bunch (unless maybe it's us!). :) We're so thankful that we have the opportunity to get to know these people, and working with them as well as being neighbors provides a good opportunity for close relationships. It's definitely a different situation than we're used to. For you Motorola people reading this, can you imagine if we had all lived on the same block as well as working together?! Pretty funny, huh? It's cool though, we're all enjoying it.

This weekend we hope to get some things accomplished and relax at the same time. Since we're not traveling this weekend, they want us to have a "cross-cultural" worship experience. So we're going to the predominantly African-American church right down the block from our house. We're expecting to enjoy some high-energy worship like we do at Spanish Church, it should be a lot of fun!

Please keep us in your prayers, especially regarding deputation and adjustment to our new environment. Classes also start in a few short weeks, so you can pray for us in that way also. We're praying for you all and will keep you updated. Later!