A Week for Remembering!

Seven years ago this week (October 8) we landed in the Czech Republic with our family and 18 suitcases.  It has truly been an adventure!  Today (October 10) is also a memorable day. Four years ago (10/10/10) we had our first official church service in Plzen. Through good and bad we are so thankful to be a small part of what God is doing in Western Czech.  Here are some of our special memories from the last seven years:

• meeting the Dominik family our first week in Czech. From the very beginning of our time here, God has provided countless precious friends who we are so thankful for. But I will always remember that first offering of friendship our first week when everything was so strange and new. I took Laini to kindergarten and tried to communicate with the people when a sweet mom stepped towards me and said, "Hi my name is Dominika. I speak English, I will help you." and she and her family have been our great friends ever since. 
• being part of a new church (we love our church family here)
• English camps with FBC Forney, TX
• Thanksgivings with Czechs (whose reactions to seeing such a big turkey is priceless) 
• working with some awesome American mission teams
• European tent vacations
• being able to play/coach American football
• the people (everywhere you go, people are people-good, bad, nice, grumpy... so sometimes the people are included in the blessings and sometimes in the challenges, but we absolutely love the Czech people and are thankful to be here working with them.
• great friends for our children