3900 miles from home...

"Home, let me come home
Home is whenever I'm with you
Oh home, yes, I am home
Home is when I'm alone with you"

Iggy and I have made it!  We have officially been in Kaneohe, HI for two nights.  Iggy did awesome on the flights.  Our first flight was from KC to Seattle.  He basically slept the entire way and Frontier graciously gave me the seat next to me for Iggy.  Unfortunately, the woman across the aisle from me was detoxing from heroin and had to be escorted off the plane.  So sad, started the trip off in a weird place.  Nonetheless, we spent 5 1/2 hours in Seattle International Airport.  Everything goes faster when you are under complete anticipation of what's ahead of you.  The flight from Seattle to Honolulu (6 hours) was a full flight which meant I had to hold Ig the entire time.  I sat next to the sweetest high school girls.  It's an understatement to say they were helpful.

It was one of the sweetest sights in the world when Iggy saw Phil for the first time in two weeks.  Just precious.  As we drove away from the airport it became very real we were actually in Hawaii...not on vacation.  I truly have felt an overwhelming abundance of excitement being here.  It is so gorgeous and everyone is so nice.  Now we just continue the search for a home.  We are very blessed to house our friends Aubrey and Amanda.  I think this is going to be a blessing in disguise for sure.  They recently have encountered a very unfortunate rental agreement that sour.  I'm praying the woman that has taken advantage of them will feel it in her heart to make things right.

We have looked for the past two days and have had some great leads.  We could choose any of them really.  However, we have reservations in our hearts feeling as if we are missing peace on it.  We have wrestled with the possibility that this is short term and it's just a place to live, we won't feel that peace.  But at the same time we completely believe that God has us here for a purpose and that purpose involves our home.  It involves our neighborhood, our community.  God has a place for us here in Hawaii.  I hope we find it soon.  Maybe I should re-phrase that...I HAVE hope we will find it very soon.

Please pray for our home search and the community we will live in.  Please pray for our daily needs.  Please pray for our jobs and those we encounter through them.  Please pray for our sweet friends Aubrey and Amanda.  Please pray for our friends the Brooks (the family we are staying with).  Please pray for my Uncle Gerald during his two month travels from South America to home (on a Harley Davidson for charity).

Giving God praise today for my parents finally selling their home!!  Please pray the inspection passes on Monday.  Shouting praise for my sister-in-law, Leslie, whom will be hopefully working for Dave Ramsey here very soon.  Please pray for her and my brother, Micah's transition to Nashville.  They, too, have a home to sell in Gardner, KS.  Praising God for having friends in Hawaii while missing KC.

Thank you for being in our lives and keeping us in your prayers.  We are so blessed.

Holy Toledo...I mean Hawaii!

"What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus."

Phil, Iggy, and I drove away from our house earlier this week to start our new journey in Hawaii.  It was snowing with six inches already on the ground.  Phil made the comment of how symbolic it was for us to be leaving and everything to be covered in white.  The last week has felt that way.  As if God has covered our lives in white, just full of pure blessings that could only come from Him.  Phil got into Hawaii on 1-11-11.  The following day he purchased our new 1987 Jeep Wagoneer with only 30k miles on it, haha!  Hopefully soon he will find somewhere for us to live.  

We are trusting God will lead us on this new terrain.  We had original plans for Hawaii but we should have known better.  You can't always "plan" when it comes to God's will for you.  So we are heading out there on faith.  Iggy and I will be in Kansas City for another week and a half.  Hopefully I can get everything wrapped up before leaving.  I sold my car this week so it's quite a challenge trying to get everything finished when I don't have the independence of my car.  The family that bought our Jeep Liberty blessed us with an additional $500 to help with our move to Hawaii.  Proof there are good...no, GREAT, people in this world.

Please pray for God's provision for our family as we start this new mission in our lives.  We are taking a huge leap over the pacific in total faith.  

Areas that we would appreciate prayer:  

• A home in Hawaii
• Health (a new doctor for Iggy in Hawaii that we love as much as our doctor here)
• Our sweet dog Hampton (that we are leaving in the care of our good friend Drew)
• Safe travel (Iggy's first plane rides)
• Finances (rent/food)
• God's plan (whether he has leading worship at a church or praying for strangers, whatever is before us)

Thanks for supporting us.  We love you and will miss you.  Please come visit ; )