15 DAYS

Here we are...waiting for 15 days to pass...

It's coming fast!

- It is official. Anna and I will be working together this summer. We'll even be living together in our own little house about a 15min walk from the church. This I am excited for.

- We're pretty much all set to go...just need to wait...and then go.

- But first, we each have to make it through a wedding. Anna's brother's and my Carrie's.

FYI- Don't watch the movie Taken with your parents before leaving to go overseas. It makes them nervous.

25 Days.....

....and we'll be on our way.

Praise God that....

- Anna and I have all our financials support in
- We have double/triped/ who knows our prayer support goals
- We all have plane tickets
- We have curriculum and other teaching resources
- We are still alive after finals
- We do not have swine flu! - which Japan is doing some serious screening for in the airports

I know that sometimes we pray for things and it is easy to overlook how often God answers our prayers. These things here are not hugely critical things, but they are good. Scripture says that all good and perfect things come from above. All of them. Look at all the good in your life; any good thing you have done...Praise Him!

Please pray this week...
- For Janet from WorldVenture who will be meeting with the pastors from the Japanese churches in the next few days. They're going to be working on our internship details together and hopefully getting a final location for Anna (I personally am praying that she'll be with me...but that's just me). It's pretty important that she gets her placement soon so she can turn in all her paperwork to the school and get the rest of her planning done.

- Pray that God will be preparing Park, Anna, and I for the task we have this summer, for our students, and that we would be able to work effectively alongside the Japanese chuch.

Thanks!

Melissa

A Sense of Completion

Class is done. Thank goodness.

This has been one of the most challenging semesters I've had at Moody so far. The work load was just intense. I don't mind this much. I enjoy school and I really enjoy what I've been studying and learning, but it takes up a lot of time. I'd much rather cut out a little of the work and have a built in coffee date every week with my girls so I can keep up with how they're doing and have fellowship with them. This would be Melissa's ideal world :-) Guess you just have to make due with what you get.

This week the Lord conventiently brought in the rest of the support for Japan in time for me to ship it all off to Colorado. His timing is beautiful. Thanks to all of you have have prayed over this matter the last few months! I cannot even fully express my gratitude for you.

A lot of the Japan planning has been coming to a close. I have all my support and I believe Anna is close if not fully supported. The two of us met this week with our beloved TESOL prof, Mr. C, and he helped us draw out a game plan to teach from for the summer and even let us borrow some of his curriculum. What a guy! We're still unsure of Anna's location for the summer (the last we heard it seemed that there would be a chance that we'd be together, but we'll see) and we still don't have plane tickets yet. After all this gets set, we should be good to go! Just have to take some finals, get my roommate married, and then we're off!

I've been thankful for some extra babysitting time the last few weeks. This is summer is going to be my longest time away from the little man and I've been realizing how much I'm going to miss him! These are a few pictures from the last few days.

You've never seen a cuter Cambodian boy, have you?

Melissa