We are changing...

I have been pitiful about writing on our blog. Mostly because I feel so scattered in my life. For instance, we live in an Asian country and spend lots of time with Asians. And expats. But a lot of my time is also spent with my kids doing homeschool or activities to stimulate a 5 year old and a 2 year old. And on top of that, I like to sew and make things and do parties.

We also get really passionate about being socially active and adoption. So, I just put a whole bunch of tabs at the top of our blog to sort of organize my brain about our lives and hopefully to stimulate us to write more about our lives--the things we're passionate about...

Now that that's been said, we have had a lot happen in the past months since I last wrote. Teams have come and gone. Prayed. Loved our people. We traveled to Singapore for vacation. We hoped to travel to the roof of the world, but that fell through for now. I traveled up to the mountains to visit a friend. And had an AWESOME time.

And just today, Johnny has been approached to help connect our people with a 5 star hotel in town. There is a lady in this hotel who has such a heart for our people and wants to offer them an internship in the hotel with the potential of becoming a full-time, really good job. Just because she loves them and knows they don't get many chances of this nature. She also wants to sell our peoples' tea all over the world. And we get excited about this because we could maybe help her on this. It's good black tea that has a bit of a sweet flavor. Much more conducive to selling in the states than what our people normally drink: butter tea...

We have had on our hearts for the past several weeks the desire to open a "hospitality house" as it's been named. A place that people can come from the mountains and stay in while their loved ones are staying in the hospital. It's a need we've seen for so long, but just a few weeks ago, the light bulb went on, and we thought, "hey, we could help with that." So we'll be looking for a house in the near future to put people in when they are in town. A sort of hostel for those who need to save their money (and maybe a place for friends to stay when they're in from across the ocean).

So, that's our latest news. Johnny leaves tomorrow to go to spend the weekend with his closest friend in this country for his birthday. We are all excited for him to get to go and love on our friend, Jordan.

And here are 2 pictures from our vacation: