{"id":314,"date":"2011-06-16T17:51:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-06-16T17:51:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:51:37","slug":"today-is-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Today is the day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends and Family,<\/p>\n

Today is the day. \u00a0The rest of us will leave our house about 4:30 pm and head for the Atlanta airport. \u00a0In many ways I am so ready to leave. \u00a0To be with Dave, Mary-Frances, and David will be wonderful. \u00a0I think God ordained the three of them leaving first so that I would be more anxious to go and be reunited with them. \u00a0Saying good bye is hard, but necessary at this time. \u00a0I appreciate so many of you and your genuine love for our family. \u00a0I thought you may be interested in David and Mary-Frances’ messages to me this morning as they await our arrival. \u00a0Thank you for your prayers for us and especially your prayers for us as we journey to Zambia. \u00a0The trip will be long and tiring. \u00a0Pray that we will rest on the plane, not get too lost in London, and that we will be able to endure the 5-6 hour car ride after almost 30 hours of air flight and layovers.<\/p>\n

Much love,<\/p>\n

Shelley<\/p>\n

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Here are David and Mary-Frances’ messages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear Mom,<\/p>\n

I am excited about you coming! I think you will like it. We have a lot of nice neighbors that are really fun to play with.
\nI think Ella and Sadie and Virginia will like playing with them too. I like school so far a lot of it is easy for me and some
\nis hard. Today we worked on finding the perimeter and it was easy for me since I already learned it from home! Mr. Johnson
\nand Mr. Hemmingway are coming over on Friday night to spend the night with us and I am excited about that. There are two
\nrestaurants here I think you will like. One is Nisso’s with good wrap thingy’s and the other is Wimpy’s that is like Steak N Shake.
\nI love you and miss you and can’t wait to see you on Saturday,<\/p>\n

David<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
hey! are you excited?!?!! TODAY is the day!!!!!! i cant wait to see all of your faces again!!!!!!! im praying that things back At home are NOT stressful and that you guys will feel no anxiety, stress, or sadness! remember to say healthy good byes and put on smiling faces!!! i love you and am soo excited about seeing all of you once again! three people came up to me today saying that they are counting down the days! you are truly loved here!!! love,
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Dear Friends and Family, Today is the day. \u00a0The rest of us will leave our house about 4:30 pm and head for the Atlanta airport. \u00a0In many ways I am so ready to leave. \u00a0To be with Dave, Mary-Frances, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-requests","category-the-beginning-of-the-journey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}