The whole story, finally!

So, here's the whole story!

You read about my health issues on an earlier post...what I didn't include in that post is that my first surgery happened 3 days before Chris and I were scheduled to attend an Overseas Teaching Fair. We considered not going to the fair, but decide Chris could do the grunt work, and I would just show up for the interviews! So, after a Tuesday surgery, I showed up Friday afternoon in a wheel chair, in dress pants that won't button (because my stomach is too swollen!), and unable to use my ab muscles. It was definitely a challenge to my desire for control...God took it all away from me, handed it to Chris (my leader...what do you know?!), and reminded me that I am not, in fact, all-knowing!

We ended up getting a job offer during the weekend from Woodstock School, in Mussoorie, India. We felt VERY overwhelmed from everything (I actually cried at the meeting where they offered us the job! SO professional, huh?!), so we asked for a week to decide whether or not we wanted to take the job. Long story short, we said yes!

Fast forward six weeks. My cyst is back one week before we had planned to tell my school. Now that the craziness is over, I feel very relieved and it doesn't seem so stressful. We still don't know what's up with these cysts, but decided that God will take care of it, and if it's a serious health problem, we won't go. However, we feel that our time in Webster City is finished. It feels really good to be at the same place in a decision

And so, today I told the world that we're going to India. We got lots of responses...excitement, shock, many tears, hugs, "we're sad for us but happy for you!". Overall it was a great day. I cried for almost two class periods straight, and we actually ended up not even singing during one period, because we were all crying/depressed! But then I told them about the monkeys and scorpions, and things perked up. :)

So, here's the news! WE'RE MOVING TO INDIA! We'll be working in a K-12 International School as a General Music Teacher (Me) and Programmer (Chris). The students and staff live on campus, so it seems to be a camp/school atmosphere, since we act as surrogate parents during the school year. It will be an AMAZING experience. Oh yeah, did I mention we'll be living in the Himalayan Mountains? And, that I'll have a housekeeper (because of the caste system it's required!). I won't have to cook, clean, do laundry...I might get a little lazy! We leave July 15th. I actually started sorting clothes today...1) Winter clothes we don't want in India, 2) Winter clothes we might want in India, 3) Clothes we don't like enough to take or store. It was pretty fun.

There's the whole story. Basically, God is good!