It has been awhile since our last blog. Not that we haven’t been busy, maybe we have been to busy. Re-adjusting to life back in Red Deer has been great! It has been amazing to see all of our family and friends again and all the new babies are so dang cute! Yeah. It has been great being back though for a short time. We have been busy getting organized to go to Brazil on the fourth of May for two months and its coming fast.
While we have been home we have been able to help out with some things and it has been great. We helped my mom, Deanna, paint the up stairs of there house, I (Luke) got a chance to work with my step Dad Brent, who is a heavy duty mechanic, at his shop on equipment, I also got to roof a house, which is always fun and we also got to help a friend move, busy times.
At this point in time we are waiting for our visas to come in. The whole visa thing has caused us a fair bit of stress in the past few weeks, but God is in control. The whole visa thing has been quite a mess. Initially we thought we would be in the clear because we sent all of out stuff to the consulate with more than enough time to get our visas back for the trip. It would have been fine if we had sent them to the right consulate. We mistakenly sent them to the consulate in Toronto when we were supposed to send them to Vancouver. Apparently there are jurisdictions, which I had no idea, and Toronto only serves Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut. So yeah this made things pretty tight. We are pretty much praying hard about things now. Some time I think that God does things like this because he wants us to know that He is in charge not us. It is a good lesson to learn and one that Barbie and I are constantly learning as we continue on this journey. We received a real boost from Shane Fox, who is also headed to Brazil, the other day when he received his visa in only nine days. Yeah Jesus is still in control and he care about the little and the big things in life.
We are really excited to see what God has for us in this up coming time away again. It is defiantly hard to leave friends and family again for two more months after already being gone for five and also we are going to miss the playoffs! This is what obedience looks like for us at this time in our lives and we are excited to continue on this journey.
This Saturday the 25th we are having a fund raiser in Sylvan Lake at the Alliance church so we hope to see you there.
