So as many of you know about the news of our passports getting lost of stolen. We were in the process of getting our visas for outreach and on the way back they were sent to L.A. and were lost or stolen. The FBI is involved and all of our passports numbers have been flagged. Therefore, even if we were able to find our passports we can't use them and have to apply for new ones. We were suppose to leave for outreach this Monday on April 4th. We now have to report our passports lost/stolen and apply for a new one. there are many people from different countries and their visa for the USA are about to be up and will soon be deported. This is a very disappointing difficult time for everyone. It will be two weeks or more till we get our new passports but we are praying God will help that process go as fast as it can.
Everyone is working really hard here trying to figure out what needs to be done. For Americans we just have a lot of waiting to do, but a lot of the international students are having a much harder time. Yesterday three people had to go back home to Norway and Australia because their visas were about to expire and had to get out of the country. We hope they will be returning to us soon. A couple more people have to leave the country this weekend as well. Its hard to say goodbye to people that you were suppose to have two more months and its still unknown if they are coming back.
The hardest part is trying to see God's hand in all this and why would he let people go home. I feel like God is telling us to just throw everything upon him. I am learning that I might be thinking I am waiting a long time, but God's timing is perfect and his is good no matter what. The other day we started singing "I have decided to follow Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back no turning back" First the first time in my life I truly realized what it meant to follow Jesus wholeheartedly. No matter what the circumstance is or how much I don't understand and now matter how disappointed I am, I will follow Jesus. The hard times are gonna come and your not gonna understand why God is doing something, but instead of asking God "why" why not ask him "what". God what are you doing through this what are you trying to teach me and show me? You would think something like this wouldn't happen we are going on outreach to another country why wouldn't God wants us to do that, but we don't see the big picture like He does. We don't know whats going on in the spiritual realm. God has everything under control. This is a test for all of us here and to be honest this is a life changing outreach. God is teaching me things that could never have be taught if this didn't happen. We are all acting as a family working together and giving God it all. We will praise him through this hard time and He will come through!
Job 23:10 "But he knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold"
