Following the Father

Hello everyone!

Josh and I arrived in Kansas late evening on the 20th!  We had a smooth trip, all of our flights arrived to their destinations early even!  We had a more direct route than I had going.  We left Taiwan the morning of the20th (all those hours of travel and it was still the same day when we arrived... weird) and had a short stop in Japan where we went through security and reboarded the same plane for the long flight to Detroit.  We had a 6 hour layover in Detroit then we had a flight to Wichita in the evening.  Josh and I slept, ate, and browsed through the airport to pass the time.

My family (minus Daddy who had to work) plus a surprise addition of Christine and Amanda, some good friends of mine, came to pick us up at the airport.  They only were able to arrive by God's grace through the Shaw family though.  Our van broke down when they were about 15 minutes outside of town!  So Mr. and Mrs. Shaw and Matthew came all with separate cars, two for the group that was heading to the airport to keep on going and one for the rescuers to take back as they followed the tow truck that towed our van to the mechanics.

They made it, and in good time also, and the reunion was still just as joyful.  I was surprised, though, to see two Shaw cars waiting for us instead of the 12 passenger van!

God certainly blessed my time at The Home.  I wouldn't reverse what I experienced for anything, I have learned much.

Thank you all for being a part of this, supporting me in so many different ways.  God bless all of you!

In HIM,
~Elizabeth
  The whole gang after we left the airport.  Left row on down is: Amanda, my mom, Helen May/ Nana, (a relative that has been staying with my family since February) and Grandma.  The right row on down is: Christine, Grace, Me, Mercy, Samuel, and Josh.  (Ben is taking the picture.)