Into Details

Once again we have seen the evidence that God cares about the little details of our lives. The language school we are going to attend in San Jose, Costa Rica, assigns you a Big Brother or Big Sister to help line up housing before your get there, meet you at the airport, and then help you get acclimated to your new surroundings. Our big brother and big sister called us yesterday. They are a married couple a little older than us who are in their second trimester of language school preparing to serve as missionaries in Costa Rica. We had a very nice conversation with them, passing the phone around based on who had the question and who had the answer. At one point, Norman was talking to the husband and some how it was discovered that 20 years ago the wife had worked in a hospital in Missouri as a nurse with Dena Stromstad. Tim and Dena Stromstad are the missionaries who we are going to work with and who will be our supervisors and mentors. The wife shared emails with Dena a couple years ago but didn't know that she was also serving in Costa Rica. We were once again blown away! This is not a coincidence, this is God's planning the little details down to who our Big Brother and Big Sister are! They were excited to learn that we know the Stromstads and want to come visit them with us. We have an automatic connection and common bond! Isn't God good?!?!?!

Please continue to pray for our preparations. Our departure date is now a little over 6 weeks away! AHHH, that is scary, but incidents like the above keep reminding us that God is in control and He is into details! (vs)

This is the Administration Building at the Instituto de Lengua Española, The Spanish Language Institute, where we will be attending language school in San Jose, Costa Rica.