Week One

Today marks one week since we moved to Maseru, Lesotho! What a week it has been. In many ways it is impossible to compare the life we are now leading to the one we knew so well just one short week ago. There are so few similarities, that I feel it best to not try and look for them. Instead, our family is trying to focus on the reality of life here and finding how each of us fits in it.

A loving MAF team here has welcomed us in Maseru, for which we are tremendously grateful. Without our colleagues here our transition would have been a whole lot more difficult. We are excited to finally be in the place we believe with all our hearts God has called us to serve. However, the pangs of homesickness, and sense of loss creeps up on each of us in the most unexpected moments. For each of the boys it is different, and Richard and I are trying our best to help walk them through something we don’t entirely know how to navigate ourselves.

We’ve done a great deal of praying together since our arrival, and I believe we are all the better for it. We have so much to learn in the coming weeks, months, years, but if we keep relying on the only true source of strength we believe the learning curve will be much less steep.

Here are just a couple glimpses of our new normal. Please continue to lift us up in prayer each and every day. We are not here by our own strength or for our own purposes.  

Here we are out for a walk in the neighborhood. You can see my sweet Alex, ever eager to communicate in Sesotho. 

The wall that keeps us safe day and night

This was just as we crossed the boarder into Lesotho.