Abigail has recently been struggling with our decision to leave for Guatemala. She has the 4 year old anxiety of leaving her friends, heck, I have the 29+ year old anxiety about that. She also has somewhat of an understanding of what it means to be a missionary. Well, today in her class they were reading about Saint Patrick. (If you don’t know his real story - not just about corned beef and leprechauns - check it out!) Saint Patrick is a wonderful example, I think, of leaving those you love to go out and spread the Good News of the Gospel. In the car on the way home, when questions about Guatemala came from nowhere, we were able to talk about Saint Patrick and how that relates to us. We at least fended off the tears, and the topic was quickly switched to something completely random and unconnected, in one breath. Welcome to little girls. (They make me understand why women are so hard to understand - well, to men at least.)In the Eisner world, we have been working hard to raise the rest of our support, and to complete our video series. The latter is done, yeah - Joy can have a life again! We hope to post the videos on the web site soon for any who are interested.
Thanks to all who have been praying for us. Please continue! Here are a few specific requests:
- There is still much to be done, and it really is a balancing act. Pray that our daily life, and parenting won’t suffer.
- We are at 50% of our needed support. Please pray boldly that the rest will come in quickly. Pray especially that those who are planning on support, but haven’t mailed in their cards yet, will remember.
- We need true Godly wisdom in dealing with Abigail’s emotions about leaving, and ours as well.
- We are still trying to take our Perspectives Class for credit, so there is a lot of reading and homework involved with that as well. Pray that we will be able to fit that in and prioritize well.
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