Making our way back to Asia Pacific!

So here it is..........my first blog post in three years!
Last December, after 2 years and 9 months of living hundreds and thousands of miles away from where we call "home," we made our way back to our tiny home town in Michigan!
Our time in Asia Pacific was literally life changing in so many ways. God grew and stretched us beyond what we ever thought was imaginable. Ministry in a country/culture that is not your own is so humbling but also physically, emotionally, and spiritually draining! We were more than ready to be encouraged and loved on by friends and family.

We spent an incredible 7 months with family and friends. The boys got to know their grandparents all over again, they made best friends with their Teall cousins and met their little cousin Sage for the first time! We were so very blessed by our church family, they encouraged us spiritually and emotionally.

By the time our 7 months had come to an end we knew it would be hard to leave all the "wonderfulness" behind! Although we left with lots of tears we left with full hearts ready to begin our ministry with the Dem. We said our final good byes at the airport to Logan's two brothers and boarded the first of our 4 flights. Our emotions were all over the place! We were sad to leave but so excited to see what the Lord had in store for us in the mountains of Papua!

We flew 30 hours across the ocean and finally arrived in the hot and sweaty tropics! Man had our bodies adjusted quickly to the cool Michigan weather! We were so grateful for our amazing boys! They were so good on the flights. I even think Logan and I got some sleep! I think!

It was good to be back. To be honest it seemed like we had only been gone a few weeks. I hadn't expected that feeling. We quickly started unpacking and repacking all of our stuff. We only had two weeks before Logan would go interior to start building our home. It was exciting to see the boys adjust to being back in this country. They quickly fell into the swing of things and so did we!