Plans/Future

Well, the main news that I have to talk about right now is that our family is moving to the states on July 1st. This decision hasn’t been easy to make, and the reasons for it are numerous. If you want to find out more about why this move is happening, then please send me an email and I will be happy to explain in fuller detail.

So anyways… things have been somewhat crazier than normal around here in the past few days. Much packing is being done, and there is still much packing to do. Having to pack everything into 50 pound suitcases really complicates things. Fortunately, there are numerous visitors to El Salvador this month, and so it won’t be a big problem to get these suitcases up to the US. My Grandpa Gingerich’s are also planning on coming down to help with stuff. They had bought tickets to come later this year, so changed their tickets to be able to come help us with this move.

Our plans are to live in Kansas. We have a house in Arkansas, but my Grandpa Mast’s are living in it right now, so due to that, and a few other reasons we have decided to live in Kansas for the time being. We will probably move to AR toward the end of the year. We have found a furnished house that we will be able to live in for very cheap rent, which is a good thing.

My plans right now are to go up with the rest of the family, help get settled in, and then a week later come back down to El Salvador to train somebody else in to do the Lamp and Light Bible course work that I have been doing for the past year. I figure it will be interesting to have to take care of myself for a few weeks, but hopefully I will be able to manage. I’m glad that I’ll have more time to do stuff with friends before I leave for good.

A few evenings ago we took the family picture that is at the top of this post. We are planning to hand it out to friends and neighbors. It is going to be hard to leave this place, and this country. This has been my home for the past 8.5 years. However, I want to look forward to the future. It currently looks somewhat scary, but I’m sure God will help us get through it alright.

Here is a brief rundown of how the next few weeks look like. Sun, the 21st, grandpa Gingerich’s come. The next day, Mon, a group from Mountain View Nursing Home come, and they will be doing some building projects at the Lamp and Light house, and so I will be somewhat involved with that throughout the week. Mon. afternoon, Andrea and Arlynn will bus over to Guatemala to then fly to the states Tuesday morning. That week is probably going to be fairly busy with work, packing, etc, etc. Saturday, the 27th, all the youth that want to are planning to climb the volcano Izalco. I’d like to go. I’ve climbed it eight times already. On July 1st, I fly to KS on a morning flight. Mom and Dad leave on a noon flight. 50 minutes after Mom and Dad leave then Grandpa’s will fly out. For some reason with my round trip ticket it was considerably cheaper for me to go on the morning flight instead of the same one that Mom and Dad went on.

I suppose I should mention some technical details about our family picture. I used my 50mm prime lens, set to an aperture of 2.8. The shutter speed was 1/200s, at ISO 100. At camera right I used an off camera flash with a 1/4 CTO gel, shooting through my homemade umbrella. I experimented  a bit until stuff looked “about right,” and then shot numerous frames while experimenting with various poses.

I am now tired, and ready for bed. Goodnight!

- Aaron

~ by Aaron on June 13, 2009.