Getting ready Haciendo preparaciones

We have been getting ready for Peru. We're almost done with our informational brochure that tells about our mission to Peru. Yay! The kids had fun going and getting their passports done. And it's exciting to sell some of our furniture and things. We're having another yard sale on Oct. 21 at Doug's house (he went with us to Peru last summer). Thanks Doug! The other major thing we are working on is getting our house ready to sell. We want to put it on the market in January. Hopefully it will sell pretty quickly (by April). Then, we intend to do the bulk of our support raising from Jan. to around April. There is a missionary training school that lasts 3 weeks in Mexico that we intend to go to also. It's from April 22 to May 11. (That's why we want the house to be already sold). We are planning to leave for Lima, Peru sometime in June.

Brian and Betty Vander Kodde will be here soon on furlough. They are the missionaries in Peru that we are going to serve with. We are going to get to visit with them and talk about us serving in Peru. I'm really excited to see them.

Our regular ministries are continuing well. We will begin to step down from some of them around January in order to spend more time studying spanish and doing other things to get ready to move to Peru.

Hemos estado haciendo preparaciones por mudandose a Peru. Casi terminamos con nuestro papel informacional sobre nuestro mision en Peru. !Yupi! Los ninos tuve divertido haciendo sus pasaportes. Y esta emocionado vendiendo nuestro mueble y otras cosas. Tuvimos otro vende en el 21 de octubre a la casa de Doug (el fue con nosotros a Peru el verano pasado). !Gracias, Doug! Tambien, estamos trabajando en nuestra casa para que sea listo por vendiendolo. Comenzamos a venderlo en enero. Esperamos que venda pronto (antes de abril). Luego, levantamos fondos de enero hasta abril. Hay una escuela misionera en Mexico por 3 semanas, de abril 22 hasta mayo 11, que queremos asistir. (Por eso queremos la casa sea vendido antes de abril.) Hacimos planes salir por Lima, Peru en junio.

Brian y Betty Vander Kodde estaran aqui pronto por furlough (no se que palabra en espanol). Ellos son los misioneros en Peru que quien estaremos trabajar. Visitaremos con ellos y hablamos sobre los planes por Peru. Estoy muy emocionada verlos.

Nuestro ministerios regulares esta continuando bien. Dejamos de trabajar unos do los ministerios en enero para que pasemos mas tiempo estudiando espanol y haciendo otras cosas para sea listo mudarse a Peru.

...Whew! That was hard!...