Where are we going?

That has been the question on our minds for the past 4 months. Many prayers and many conversations with family and close friends have surrounded this topic.

Are we moving to Ecuador? Will we need to learn a new language? Will we get our visa's in time? Or are we moving to New York? and doing construction on the new world headquarters? Two totally different directions. Two totally different courses of action that need to be taken to get there...not to mention two TOTALLY different wardrobes! but in the end, the final destination is pretty much the same...doing our all to serve Jehovah. And embarking on an exciting new chapter in our lives at the same time! So honestly, we decided a long time ago that we would truly be happy no matter where we ended up.

In the beginning of the year, we were certain that our plan was to move to Ecuador. By May, we wern't so sure. All this talk about the construction project in Tuxedo, and Warwick, NY sounded exciting and right up our alley. We needed to check this option out too. So we went up to NY in July with the RBC and volunteered for a few weeks, and loved it! We put in our Bethel application and it has been a bit of a waiting game since then.

My (Sarah's) last day at work is September 30th, and so our plan was to leave shortly thereafter...but...as of the 17th we still hadn't heard anything from Bethel...so it was looking more and more like we were moving to Ecuador. But something was telling us not to give up on NY yet. So, Gregg called a brother he met while volunteering, that is an overseer over the project and got to ask him some questions about the application process, what type of applications are being accepted right now, the housing situation, etc. Basically we got the answers we needed to make a decision one way or the other.

So...we do in fact know where we are moving now!!!! There are still some technical things to work out, but Jehovah never fails to amaze me with how things just fall into place at the right time, so I have no doubt that they will in this instance too. We don't have an exact moving date yet, but we will keep you all posted.