News!!!

Well, we have some news! And no, I'm not pregnant:) lol! You thought you guessed it didn't you? But nope, that wasn't it! What is our news... Gabriel got a new car seat!!!! Oh, that's not exciting? Darn. 

Well, maybe it'll be exciting if I actually told you that he needs a new car seat because they are required back in America and we don't have one big enough for him. What's that? I didn't tell you we were coming back to America?!?! Oops. My bad. I guess I will tell you now then.

So, yes, that's right, we are coming home!!! YES!!!! When may this happen I hear you asking, well the 30th of October is when! We just bought our plane tickets today! We land around 6PM and change planes twice and have like a 17 hour trip not including the car rides and bus rides and ... you don't want all the details? Sorry again:)

Why are we coming home? Well, if you have been following my blog for awhile you probably already know that things at the school Josh works at are not exactly pleasant. Rather miserable actually. They were threatening not to pay us, telling us this place might close, lying to us about numerous things, telling us to go find jobs elsewhere ect. It has been rather crazy. That is not the whole reason we are leaving though. Josh and I could live here for another 6 (5 by the time we leave) months and deal with it, but we really don't feel like we are supposed to. We feel like God keeps telling us to go home.

Gods directions don't always make sense to be completely honest. Like when he told us to come here, that didn't make sense. When he told us to give almost half of our money away one time, that didn't make sense. When he told us to go to Japan, that didn't make sense. Now, God is telling us to go back home and though it doesn't make complete sense, we are following his direction because he has always blessed us and taken care of us before when we follow him.

Josh doesn't have a job back in Minnesota yet, but there is a job that sounds very promising. It's a job down by the Iowa border (but still in MN) and it's working in a plant. Josh had a phone interview with them and they loved him! They want him to come in for a one on one interview shortly after we get back and take a tour of the plant. We are very excited and we are praying that if this is the job that God has lined up for Josh that all the doors will be opened and he will get it without any problem. 

For the first couple of weeks or until Josh gets a job and we can get an apartment, we will be living at my parents home up by Duluth. We are very thankful to my parents for letting us into their home while we sort things out. 

I know that we will be very tired the first few days, or weeks! lol! But we would love to see everybody when we get back! Things with Gabriel and jet lag may make things a little difficult, so I'm sure there will be times when only Josh will go meet people and I will stay home with Gabriel or we might ask people to come to us instead of going to them and so on and so forth. But either way, we are still looking forward to seeing absolutely everybody and we are so excited about this new direction that God is giving us!

This is also why I haven't been blogging that much lately, because it's hard not to blog about the big things that are happening in your life! We have known we were going to do this for a little over a week now. We felt like God has been wanting us to do this for about a month or more now so one day I sat down and crunched all the numbers and gave the list to Josh so he had all the facts and told him that I completely trusted whatever decision he made. I told him how I felt about everything and he decided to go in the direction we have felt God wanted us to go and there you go. We just didn't want to tell everybody (well, almost everybody) until it was final and we had the plane tickets. 

So yes, we are very very excited! Even Gabriel is excited even though he can't say it:) If you would like to pray for us that would totally awesome. There are a few things you could pray for...

*The school has been rather miserable to us ever since we told them that we are leaving. They took away Josh's remaining vacation and won't let him have it, lying to us about more things, and kind of being a royal pain in the ... anyway! So Josh has a hard time going to work most mornings because of it, he just can't stand all the lies. 

*Also, we are trying to get Josh into the dentist before we leave so that he can get his wisdom teeth pulled. It would only cost us about $50 to get them pulled here and in the States it would cost much, much MUCH more, as in thousands of $$$$. He needs to get it done very badly so we're praying that something opens up where he can get in before we leave. 

*Also, because the school took his vacation away we're not sure how we're going to get the days off in order to go to the dentist... maybe call in sick if it comes to that but Josh doesn't like to do that. 

*If you could pray that Josh would be able to either get the job that he has an interview for or another job lines up that would be great. 

*And lastly, pray that everything would just go smoothly from now until we leave this place and everything will just fall into place.