It is the beginning of the 4th week and where are we now you might ask? It's funny because we estimated being in each state for a week, give or take a few days. We got to Arizona on February 16th and left on the 27th, which means we were there for a total of 12 days. Well, 11 1/2 if you want to be technical. From there we drove to Salt Lake City where we have been ever since. Yup, still in Utah! According to our plans we should already have been in at least our 3rd state but oh well.
Our plan was to leave today but here's the story:
On Friday the 2nd, we went to Best Buy and ordered a new charger for the laptop (covered by warranty, praise the Lord!) And were told that it would take 3-5 business days to arrive vwhich puts us at today (the 8th) being the latest it would arrive. Knowing that we planned on leaving today but then we got an e-mail yesterday saying that our order had just been processed and that we would be notified when it was shipped and would then take 3-5 business days to arrive which will keep us here for at least 5 more days because they don't operate on weekends. Gosh.
This is why this is funny: 2 of the pastors here never planned on staying!!! They either came for a visit and were passing through and here they are, 6 & 20 years later in Salt Lake City. Everyone tells us to pray about moving here. I even told Marc that before we even met anyone that after the trip we should come back here where evangelical Christians are outnumbered 9 to 1!!! This state is really unlike anything I've ever seen before.
Pray with us for God's will and to know how long we'll be delayed here.
But anyways, that is the update. We've been here for 11 days and we'll see how much longer. As unreal as this city is, the family we've been staying with is beyond amazing. Pray that God would bless the Cowan family for all they've done for us!
Ooh! And exciting news which, if you're on my facebook you probably saw already :) but Marc and I celebrated our two year anniversary yesterday!! It was actually really cool. We didn't do too much of the "typical" stuff. We babysat, played games, went to church, then played some games with the people in the house. It was tons of fun!
Spiritually things have been well. Marc spent a good while talking to an LDS member at the temple visitor's center and I think that was the first time that he was really disheartened and sad for the deception you see here. It is really sad in that aspect because you see all of these people who are desperately trying so hard to be good because they are trying to earn grace but the Bible teaches that grace is a free gift. So pray that the spirit of oppression will just be lifted, that people would have open eyes and open hearts to hear the word of God.
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