We are packing and doing last minute shopping for our trip back to Guam next week. We wish we had more time to see friends here but school starts soon and we have got to get back to work. We had a real treat when we got to spend some time last Sunday with PIBC 2006 grads Jimmy and Gloria Isaiah (pictured with us and the Plaxtons). They are working with a Marshallese congregation in the Sacramento area. They picked up Happiness to spend a little time with him before they put him on a plane to LA to spend a little time with relatives there.
We then headed down to Vacaville and enjoyed spending a couple days with old friends Jeff and Christy McKim (pictured). We met them when our oldest sons (now 27) were in the nursery at Scotts Valley Baptist. I am hoping to get them out to Micronesia some day to teach at PIBC.
Then it was back to Shingle Springs to get ready to return to Guam. We spent a couple days at the Plaxtons helping them get their container filled and ready to go. It went out on Thursday and hopefully will be on Guam a week after we get back. Tim and Melody got tickets to fly from Hawaii to Guam on the same flight as us arriving on the 14th. Tomorrow, Sunday we will have the commissioning service for Tim and Melody, heading to PIBC Guam, and Erin Plaxton heading to a teaching ministry in Palau with Bethania High School.
We enjoyed a nice family dinner last night with my sister and her family - the Hartts, Joyce's mom and dad, my mom and dad and the Plaxtons. My dad makes great homemade ice cream. It may take several hours in the gym to work that off. Leaving family, I think, is probably the hardest thing about being a missionary. And this time we will be leaving a grandchild on the other side of the world. We are excited to go back to Guam but sad to leave behind family and friends.
We are packing and doing last minute shopping for our trip back to Guam next week. We wish we had more time to see friends here but school starts soon and we have got to get back to work. We had a real treat when we got to spend some time last Sunday with PIBC 2006 grads Jimmy and Gloria Isaiah (pictured with us and the Plaxtons). They are working with a Marshallese congregation in the Sacramento area. They picked up Happiness to spend a little time with him before they put him on a plane to LA to spend a little time with relatives there.
We then headed down to Vacaville and enjoyed spending a couple days with old friends Jeff and Christy McKim (pictured). We met them when our oldest sons (now 27) were in the nursery at Scotts Valley Baptist. I am hoping to get them out to Micronesia some day to teach at PIBC.
Then it was back to Shingle Springs to get ready to return to Guam. We spent a couple days at the Plaxtons helping them get their container filled and ready to go. It went out on Thursday and hopefully will be on Guam a week after we get back. Tim and Melody got tickets to fly from Hawaii to Guam on the same flight as us arriving on the 14th. Tomorrow, Sunday we will have the commissioning service for Tim and Melody, heading to PIBC Guam, and Erin Plaxton heading to a teaching ministry in Palau with Bethania High School.
We enjoyed a nice family dinner last night with my sister and her family - the Hartts, Joyce's mom and dad, my mom and dad and the Plaxtons. My dad makes great homemade ice cream. It may take several hours in the gym to work that off. Leaving family, I think, is probably the hardest thing about being a missionary. And this time we will be leaving a grandchild on the other side of the world. We are excited to go back to Guam but sad to leave behind family and friends.
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