Awaiting the Reunion of Much Missed Friends

This is my German host family with who we will be staying for four days. As I cram for exams my thoughts dwell on them.

I lived with Eva, Paul and Thomas for a my Junior year as an exchange student and it was during this trip that I learned to navigate around on trains and buses (hopefully it will be quite similar in the other countries we visit). Not only did I learn about traveling, but I learned about who I was and who I wanted to be. My year abroad was one of the best expierences of my life. This beautiful family welcomed me in and exerted much patience as I was learning German. Now that Paul is older I no longer speak German better than him :)

My love for them compares to my love for my own family and I look forward to hugging them (as well as the entire extended family which is HUGE) and giggling with and reading to my host brother. I do hope he hasn't grown up too much. It will bring me much joy to introduce them to one of my dearest friends Sarah Hope. Please pray for patience for her as I try to translate the many excited conversations which will take place. Translating requires much more language knowledge than than simply speaking.

My biggest prayer request though, is for this family. They are not Christians and neither was I the last time I saw them. Please pray that they will see the love that fills Sarah and I and that through our relationship with each other and our conversations with them that the Gospel will be loud and clear even if it doesn't come out of our mouths. It aches my heart that a family that is so dear to me doesn't Christ as their Lord and Savior.