Sorry that we haven’t updated sooner! Cason and I have been so busy with everything else going on that it seems crazy that we fly home in 4 days! We have been listening to Christmas music, packing, and saying or farewells this week. We are excited to be going home but it will be incredibly hard to leave all of our friends and the beautiful children at the Baby Centre.
As we process everything that has happened in the last few months we have been trying very hard to be joyful and enjoy every moment of our last days in Kenya. Unfortunately in the last month I have had giardia (a parasite) twice, which has made it difficult to do very much. Please be praying that I recover from it and can be healthy coming back to the US.
As our time ends, we are both so thankful for everything we have been able to experience here. In the last week, we’ve had some “goodbye” events with Baby Centre, our youth group, Ngata AGC, Cason’s football team, and our missionary family. It has been so bitter sweet processing all of this. We are excited to be home with our friends and family, yet we have met some wonderful people and will miss our Kenya friends so much.
Through all of the sadness we experienced in losing our precious triplets we are trying to keep our trust in God, even though we don’t understand what happened. We are learning through this and have had wonderful support from people back home and from our friends here. God has really shown us His continued love through the people that have come around us in this time, giving encouragement and prayer.
Over Christmas, we will be in Wooster, Ohio with my parents and siblings, then we head to Kentucky for a few days to see extended family, before going to Greenwood, Indiana to be with Cason’s family over New Years. Eventually we’ll land in Wooster again to live with my parents for a while why we spend some time seeking the Lord (and helping them raise Golden Doodle puppies that their dog Rosie is having in mid-January! See doodlesbyrosie.blogspot.com for more info). Cason has been asked to continue as the WGM Kenya Treasurer from the US for a few months, so he will continue to work remotely as we figure out what is next for us.
We’ll continue to post over the next few weeks, but wanted to give a quick update as we are preparing to leave. As always thank you for reading and being a part of our journey! We’d really appreciate your prayers over the next weeks and months
Colleen
PS – In early November, the Christmans, some friends from our church, came to visit us in Kenya. We took them to the Masai Mara, on our last safari before going home. It was so great being with them as we were going through some of the most difficult times here, and it was such a blessing to get away to the Mara. Some of our favorite pictures are below, or you can CLICK HERE to see the whole album.
