Vacation at the UP

We just returned from a week-long trip from Northern Michigan. We spent a couple of days up at the UP.

We went to see the Tahquamenon Falls and Mackinac Island. 

Scott's parents went with us. 

 We also spent a few days at Scott's parents' cottage in Baldwin. It is on Lake Cecilia.
On Saturday the whole family came up to hang out together and celebrate Scott's dad's birthday.

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Edina became a US citizen! :)

I just realized that i never shared pictures with you yet about my American citizenship ceremony.
It was such a fun thing! There were 80 new citizens from 40 different countries.
There was a part of the ceremony when the judge would read out the different countries where we were from, but he had the wrong list! Hha! :) How does THAT happen? :)
So he was reading the countries, and we were to stand up when we heard our country. Except I didnt hear Hungary! So at the end the judge asked if there was anyone who didnt hear his or her country. Half of us raised our hands! :) It was a mess.... but not a big deal apparently! :)
Anyway... it was special to say the Pledge of Allegiance for the first time and to sing the Star Spangled Banner with my right hand place on my heart.

Most jottem ra, hogy meg nem raktam fel kepeket az amerikai allampolgarsagi ceremoniarol. 
Nagyon jo volt! 80 uj allampolgar volt aznap 40 kulonbozo orszagbol. 
Volt egy resz, ahol a biro felolvasta a kulonbozo orszagokat, ahonnan jottunk. A baj csak az volt, hogy a rossz lista volt nala! :) Ugyhogy Magyarorszagot nem is olvasta! Kicsit beijedtem, de nem volt olyan nagy ugy. A vegen megkerdezte, hogy van e valaki aki  nem hallotta a sajat orszagat. Minden masodik ember felnyujtotta a kezet! :) Volt egy kis kavarodas, de a vegere megoldodott. 
Jo erzes volt a nemzeti himnuszt enekelni eloszor, jobb kezemet a szivemre helyezve. 

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We purchased plane tickets!!! :)

Hey guys,
we have some very good news!! This past week we purchased our plane tickets to Italy!!! 

Praise the LORD!! Scott found some good deals on the tickets. We have a 10 hour layover in London, but what is 10 hours when we will be ON OUR WAY FINALLY!!! :)

Our departure date: JULY 9

We are flying into Hungary first, where we are gonna spend a few weeks with Edina's family. We haven't seen them for years! :)
Then later this summer we are gonna drive down to Southern Italy, to the town of PETACCIATO, our new home. :)

Some pictures of the town:

We are renting an apartment from the only Evangelical Christian family in town.
Here is a picture of our future apartment (street view):

it's the one with the little wooden shed in the front

Needless to say, we are stoked!! We cannot wait to start our new life and ministry in Petacciato, Italy!!

We are praising God for His amazing provision, for raising up our support team and providing for our needs!

Thank you Thank you Thank you for everyone who joined our team!!! We are honored and humbled!

God bless you all!!

Support update:

A dear family just told us today that they would like to pick a $50 apple from our support tree, which puts us to 62% !!!! :) 

Praise the Lord!!! :)

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Purchasing plane tickets!!! :)

We are so thankful!!! God is so faithfully providing for our needs, it is the best thing to trust Him and look to Him for everything!!!
We are so close now, only $74 monthly support away from our initial goal.
We got the green lights from NTM USA, NTM ITALY and our Missions Committee to purchase tickets!!! :) This is fantastic news, makes us really happy and excited!
Scott and Benjamin are up North Michigan this weekend at his parents' lake cottage helping to set up a few things for the season. But when they come back we will look at tickets! :)

Thank you R. Family for picking a nice and juicy $50 apple !!!
We love you and we are so grateful for you!!! :)

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Another apple

Thank you all so much for praying for us!
God is doing great things!
We just had another apple picked from our tree!!! :) :) :) :)

We have $124 more monthly support to raise.

We are planning to purchase our plane tickets to Europe pretty quick here...

Hoping to leave on the 2nd week of July. Lord willing! :)

Please keep praying!

God is good!!

Ujabb alma leszedve! :) Dicsoseg au Urnak!

Mar csak 124 dollar havi tamogatas hianyzik, es indulhatunk!!!

Julius masodik heteben szeretnenk indulni. Imadkozzatok kerlek hogy talaljunk repulojegyeket jo aron! :)

Az Ur jo!!!

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A $100 apple picked! :)

Praise the Lord!!!! Another apple picked!!! :)
Thank you B. Family!!! God bless you guys!!
We are beyond excited and so grateful! God is faithful!
We need $174 monthly support more and we can buy our airplane tickets to Italy!
Keep praying! God is Good and His timing is PERFECT! :)

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Getting closer

We are so so so excited to see The Lord raising up our support team. Last week I, Edina had a little meltdown, call it discouragement, losing focus etc. I was quite out of it, to say the least. 

But The Lord, again, showed us his faithfulness which never changes. 

The following days God brought us 3 new supporter families! And them yesterday one too!!

We are so grateful and humbled...

We jumped from needing six hundred and some dollars monthly support to 

274 dollars! 

We are moving out of this house on June 20.

We have a speaking engagement at a church on July 7.

If everything goes well we are planning to take off right after that. 

Please pray for us! 

Thank you!

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