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We are closing in on a year since we fist got accepted by Mission to the World to be full-time missionaries to La Ceiba, Honduras.  In that time, we have met a lot of other missionaries.  We have spent time with many of these people at some of our different training conferences and some we saw almost every day of July in NYC.

The people we met at these events have been at different stages of their journey to get to the mission field.  Some have now left for the field and some are still traveling all over to raise support just like we are doing.  Some of the families started the process long before us and some after us.  We have been able to build relationships with other missionaries and hopefully those relationships will be long lasting.

One thing I realized today is that I follow/subscribe to a lot of blogs and/or monthly updates from a bunch of different families.  This is great because I can 'keep up' with them and know what is happening in their busy lives without actually seeing or talking with them.  There is no way I could call or meet with all these people regularly (especially since lots of them are in other countries/continents/time zones), so I am glad to get an email once a week or month in order to know how to pray for them and what the Lord is doing in their lives.

There is a negative to this as well.  I subscribe to the blogs of all my teammates on my google reader and so I get to see what is happening with all of them.  That doesn't sound so negative, but part of it is.  Two of my teammates, Shannon and Bethany, are in Costa Rice in language school.  Yay for them!  It is sometime hard to read about what they are doing because I really, really, really want to be there learning Spanish so I can make the next move to La Ceiba.  It can sometimes be discouraging for me to not be there and to see that they are getting closer and closer to being in Honduras.  Don't get me wrong, I am so happy for them.  It is just that they are where I want to be.

I know the Lord is in control and that He has a plan for Ashley and me.  I know that His timing is perfect and there is a reason why we are here in Phoenix a little longer than we hoped.  I can see this clearly with regards to our house.  We have been praying, and asking for prayers, that the sale of our house go though.  The Lord has planned for it to happen when he wants it to happen and not us.  If the house would have sold when we thought was a good time, we would not have a place to live right now.  He has provided us a comfortable place for us to stay!  Praise the Lord!

I love technology and the internet and skype and blogs.  I love being able to keep in touch with so many people that are in so many places all over the world.

The sun setting over Lake Tahoe.

I took this on my road trip across the country.  It was just one of the incredibly beautiful scenes I was able to see.