change of plans

Dinner with Hartong's

Betsy, Amasa and Megan

Beautiful Jamie

Jason drawing Jesus- this man is amazing...Jesus and Jason I mean... :)



In Geneva, a quaint downtown

an old radio station building turned costume shop






Umm, there have been some massive change of plans and I am pretty sure they are good and from Gd. yay! We're going to use Jon and Sarah's free stand by tickets to fly home on Saturday and when the Hanes come to southern CA, they'll drive out Jamie's car. Totally crazy. But totally perfect. We played a joke on Kim, having Jon say that we weren't going to leave until Saturday, therefore we couldn't help out VBS cause we wouldn't be in SD until monday or tuesday... all in love of course :)

Last night we had an amazing dinner community and prayer worship time with Betsy and Jason and their family and friends. Can I reiterate this enough: Gd has me and Jamie here for a specific purpose and that purpose is getting more and more clear and big.

Having an extra three days is proving to be exhausting, but awesome. Every day we have met and spent time with friends of the Hanes and every night we've been up between 2-4 am. I won't lie, they have become our good friends and sleep has become a secondary concern. Entering a new community with common faith is radical and freeing. Inside jokes, such Jon's spiritual skepticism, his obsession with Jamie's pillow involving feet and lightening being a representation of the Holy Spirit. And speaking of lightening, it is incredible here! I have never, ever seen the sky rain and sparkle as I have the last few nights.

We are all ADD and almost never have a conversation without interruption. But its home. It's family. It is soo good. I am not even exhausted when I know I should be! We are busy planning our days with laughter and food. Our goal of eating "in" has not succeeded here. But Jon's bread making abilities, Sarah's wine laugh and Jamie's OCD over feet has entertained us for this long- the Mexican food here is not bad, I should add. The thrift stores are equally amazing! And for myself, I keep talking about poop, and not meaning to at all. It's this weird thing, I think Jon put it well saying, "Malka's world revolves around her butt" ...probably a little too gross for some people (sorry Charlotte :).

I enjoy it. And I hope that our stories and our presence in this place is acceptable to the community. Apparently we've left good impressions. But who knows, we have few more days here... lol.
in love-
-Malka