Hold on!!!

Life has been crazy lately..... a good crazy. I feel like..."Just hold on and enjoy this time Mandee". There have been many pretty big life changes in the last few weeks. I would say the most major of these would be the new member of our family that will be joining us right before Christmas time. We are so excited for our fourth child and cannot wait to meet our sweet little baby. The kids are all really excited as well and the girls ask me every day to kiss the baby and will kiss my belly and Emmersyn will talk to the baby alot. It is really precious. I am 10 weeks along and feeling great. Brian has been really great about letting me rest whenever possible and I think that is making a huge difference this pregnancy.
Another very exciting thing in our lives is that we got accepted with our missions agency, Fire International. When we were in Africa in January we met a couple there and fell in love with them. Our hearts and visions were right on the same track, and we felt an instant connection in our hearts with them. When we came back to the States we really felt God pulling us in the direction of the organization they were with and we researched FIRE and knew fully in our hearts that was where God wanted us to be. We love and so appreciate everyone at FIRE and they have be so very helpful at this very major part in our lives.
We will be selling our house and our realtor (and us) thinks that it will be best for us to just be out so the house can stay clean and look good. This is a pretty major deal and will be interesting how the kids handle it when we are living across the street with my parents and they can still see their old house. The kids have started to ask alot of questions about when we live in Africa. It brings tears to my eyes alot of the times when they ask if Grandma and Grandpa will be coming with us, or their Uncle or Aunts. I just have to trust God to bring comfort to their little hearts when the time does come.
We are going to be starting to raise support next week. Very exciting and yet kind of intimidating. I am so thankful that God has been daily confirming this call on our lives in my heart and just deeping the love in my heart for Tanzania and then people there.
We set our launch date a year from this June..... which I guess is now this month. We have alot to do but I have never had such peace in my heart before. I know more than anything this is what we are called to do and I can't wait to see how God provides and leads us along this next year.