The Time is Drawing Near!

This picture is a few weeks overdue, but I still want to share it with you.  As you know our time here in Costa Rica is coming to an end.  We came here last April (2008) to start our language school journey and now we have been here for almost a year.  We will be finished with language school on April 7th, so we have been making preparations to head back to the States for the summer and then, Lord willing, Belize at the end of July.

 

When we came here, we had to buy a few things to set up house and make things more like home for us and the children, but now we are having to find other homes for some of these things.  You might think that a difficult process, but actually it has been so incredibly easy because there are so many other people who are ready to take it off our hands.  We sent out an email to all of our friends here with pictures of everything we needed to sale and in less than 24 hours all but about 6 items were sold!!!  This picture of Cohen with a stroller full of stuff was taken the morning after the email was sent out.  This is how he looked when he went to school that morning.  So many students responded to our sale, that Cohen decided to just load up the stroller and deliver some of it to them the very next day.

 

What a blessing this was that the sale went so smoothly, and what a blessing it has been to others to be able to purchase items at super low prices.  I must say, however, that it was a little sad for us to see some of the items go.  For instance, you can probably see some little ride-on toys in the picture.  We had three of them for our children and they absolutely loved to ride them all over the house.  I will always remember that.  They had such a good time on them, but it is time to let them move on to another family and make more memories.  In fact, we bought them from another missionary family when they were getting ready to leave language school, so they had already been making memories :-)

 

Now, we have only 3 weeks left here!  We have this week and next week left of school and then we have a week for packing.  We are so excited, but we are going to miss Costa Rica and the wonderful friends we have made here.  The Lord has really blessed us with a wonderful year and He had taught us so much!  And He has used so many of you prayerfully and financially to keep us here.  Thank you :-)  We look forward to seeing many of you again soon!!!