Hi everyone! We made it back to New Zealand after 14 hours of flying. Ugh. We were sitting in the back of the plane near the bathrooms (eew...especially after dinner :0) and it was a bit of a bumpy ride this time, but I actually slept a bit. Linda kept coming back to check on us and she said I was sleeping every time she came back. Yes! On the flight here I watched Danny and David sleep because I just couldn't. It was rough. They have this flight tracking thingie on the tv (every one has their own tv on the seat in front of them) and you can watch our plane (computerized) fly across the ocean. It tells you how far you've gone and gives you an estimated time of arrival. It's really depressing when you're awake and checking it throughout the night because you think you've waited awhile and that a couple hours have definitely passed since you last checked it, but the reality is it's only been 45 minutes. Ahhhh! So this time I knew I slept some cuz when I checked it there was only 3 hours and 36 minutes to go. Yesss! Then we drove about 2 1/2 hours from Auckland back to our home in Tauranga. We were excited to see the kids and they were excited to see us. Everyone did well while we were away.
It was so good to come back and see everyone. We've missed you guys a ton. We're sorry we didn't have enough time to see everyone we wanted to see, but it was such a fast trip. We are so excited that we got to bring Pastors David and Linda back to tell their side of the story. Isn't it amazing how God works? To be sure, I never would have thought last year at this time I'd be sitting here in New Zealand, let alone flying back to tell everyone about all the awesome things going on here. Hopefully we will get some pics posted of the church here soon. Take care.
-erin
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The whole thing is nothing short of amazingly awesome... how does it feel to know you are the answer to a church's specific prayers? ONLY GOD!!!
Love you guys!
Erin, it was REALLY cool to see you guys. Glad you could make it back for a visit, thanks for bringing David and Linda! They were great!
Praise God for spontaneous baptisms in NZ! :D
Yes! I remembered my password again! Sah--WEET!
Good to see you guys and the work God is doing. What a fantastic way you were all brought together! And having communion together at LHC was the finishing touch as a family remembering the reason all this is brought together.
LHC is growing in so many directions too. Not to overuse the word AMAZING, I wish there were another word sometimes to explain and describe what God is doing. If He let us see it all, we probably could not comprehend it, therefore He remains largely secretive about what He's doing. Then there are break throughs like when your pastors came over with you guys and told us the story of NZ and you all.
Just last night I saw one of those break throughs myself. I had prayed many years ago about Christian guys in Gary's workplace. And the past few years He's shown me that He was answering that all along. Lastnight Gary brought someone home for dinner, a business aquaintance that was one of those answers. When I realized he was a Christian I shook his hand and said, "I thought you looked familiar! We're in the same Family!
The Heavenly Reunion is going to be so great, when we see ALL God has done. Blessings!
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