After a good night's sleep, today was a little less stressful. I awoke with no headache, but we did oversleep a little - I forgot to set the alarm. So breakfast was grabbed on the run, but worth the trade off for a little extra sleep.
Our morning started with a continuation of our discussions on Spiritual Disciplines. Today's discipline was quiet times. Powerful. A veteran missionary shared his time schedule - 1 hour /day with God, 1 day/month with God, and 1 week/year with God. It is so easy to get wrapped up in the business of doing God's work we forget to get wrapped up in God. I know when I became a staff member of a church how easy it was for that to happen, I imagine it will be even easier on the mission field. May God find both of us faithful in staying wrapped up in Him instead of the work.
Today was a little more relaxed as we were all on different schedules. We had a "paperwork interview" with personnel. She went over all our evaluations and recommendations regarding our future along with giving us more paperwork to do. All was positive in that interview. We then each had a psychological evaluation and we were both found to be "normal." Boy is that a subjective term!
In between the interviews we squeezed in a telephone radio interview for an upcoming episode.
We managed a nap, checked in with the kids and the office, and ended the evening at Starbucks with some fellow candidates and learned to play Monopoly Deal (a card game version of Monopoly).
Tomorrow we will sit through classes and Friday morning we have our final interview. Friday afternoon we get our final answer - appointed or not. We are actually beginning to see the mission field as a reality and we have to stop and take a deep breath every now and then, but it is good.
Update on the house - it is still ours - no sell to today's lookers - but God is in control. Keep praying.
Serious Missionary Training
(Steve on the left is headed to Ukraine and David on the right is headed to Japan)
Starbucks Crew
(Janelle and Jenelle, Scott, and Bob and Sarah - who are headed to Alaska)
We all share in Clean Up Duty
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