Update - Colorado arrival

We thought we’d give a quick update on our life here lately since we’re behind in our blog posts. Our life has been kinda crazy over the past week – okay, it’s been extremely crazy. We just arrived in Palmer Lake, Colorado for three weeks of training through Mission Training International (MTI). It’s called SPLICE and covers the Spiritual, Personal, Lifestyle, Interpersonal, Cultural and Endure/Enjoy aspects of preparing for cross-cultural missions. We’re excited for this opportunity and time to seriously look ahead to Ethiopia.

Before this we had a whirlwind week of selling a lot of our things at a good ole’ Morton garage sale, then frantically packing the rest to move over to Bluffton to store. During the drive from Bluffton back to Morton, I (Kevin) even picked up a speeding ticket in the lovely town of Wolcott (in a 25 MPH zone???). We packed our stuff up anticipating closing on our home sale in mid-July with a gentleman we had agreed on an initial contract with. Unfortunately, we just received word today that the “gentleman” is pulling out of the deal. This means we get to sell our home while being halfway across the country. Everything should be in place to make this happen, but it’s disappointing and more difficult. Maybe this is part of God’s way of preparing us for the flexibility and perseverance needed in our future jojurney. Or just part of these “adventures” that we wrote about for the LSM blog: Loving Shepherd Blog