Its about time...to go!

Ok, so I added a link to our blog so that you could check out the presentation that we have been sharing and realized that the last blog was like over a month ago!  So, I believe it's about time for an update.  Well we have been quite the busy bodies lately with me working several side jobs for friends and family (thanks to all for the opportunity to serve!) and Lora has been crazy time consumed with scanning all of our pictures that were taken prior to owning a digital camera.  To help you get a better idea of how many pics that is, we did not own a digital camera until Jara was 6 yrs old and we had been together for 2 yrs prior to Jara being born!  Did I mention that Lora really likes to take a lot of pictures?  Dude, we are talking a LOT of pics are being scanned.  This is all part of the process of lightening our load and getting rid of stuff so that we do not have to store much while we are gone.  On another note, we are at like 34 days and counting til we reach the departure date of Dec 7th and at this point the only thing we are waiting on is our invitation letter from the Ministry of Justice in Spain.  Once that arrives we are jettin' to Chicago to turn in the visa apps and then praying for the hand of God to move once again in order to process the visas quickly!  All in all we are ready to go when the Lord sends in His perfect timing!  We just know it is very close and the good bye's are starting to set in so bitter-sweetly.  We have a busy month this month in that we will be sharing the testimony at Horizon Central this coming Sunday, the women's ministry is having a bake sale and benefit dinner after church for us on the 14th, we have been invited to go to Lafayette around the 21st and we are having a Stayton Send Off benefit concert on the 27th!  We are looking forward to some sweet fellowship and hope to see many of you along the way!  That's about it for now.  Continued thanks for your love and support!  Paz!  Jared