It has been a roller coaster ride these last few months
not knowing if we going home in April as originally planned or staying an extra
few months. Our replacements had not been found and we were asked to stay
longer. We thought that that would be impossible as we would need to extent our
health/travel insurance. The company that we are with could not do that for us
but I did contact a NZ company that would. So that was that problem sorted. We
also fasted and prayed to ask for help to decide what the Lord wanted us to do.
Elder Saunders felt that it did not matter either way which way we decided and
if that was my answer too, then we were coming home as planned in April. But I
certainly got my answer as I was talking to Chelle. I expressed that I thought that
maybe this was another test to see how obedient we would be to our Heavenly
Father’s wishes if he wanted us to stay. That’s when I received my answer to
stay longer. This was heart breaking news to tell our family but most of them
were very supportive in fact all of them were supportive just not very happy
with the news. But we knew it was the right decision to make.
So can you imagine our delight when President called on
Sunday to say he had asked a local couple to serve in the mission office and
they had said yes. We thought that maybe now we may have a chance to go home as
planned.
We called the couple up on Tuesday and they offered to
come into the office on Thursday morning to introduce themselves. That turned
out to be a very pleasant morning.
And as you can see from the countdown clock we are on our
way home – in April that is.
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