One Week Remaining

One week from today I will be back in the states. I’m very happy to be going home to spend time with family and friends. Yes, I am a little sad to leave Zambia, but I know that I will be coming back in a few months to begin the next chapter in my life here. What I know will be very difficult is being away from Moses for so long. I have not mentioned him much in this blog because I didn’t want it to turn into a teenage girls diary. But I have loved my time with him here of course. We have done plenty of marriage prep through couples counseling with his pastor, going through a video course and just chatting on various important topics. There has been suit measurements taken, visa applications to be filled out and other various technicalities that needed to be taken care of. And amidst all that we have gotten to spend time together just being together and talking about our childhoods and past experiences as well as what’s important to us now and for the future. I know we have not known each other long by most people’s standards. And if you would have told me in May of 2012 that I would be planning a wedding in less than one year’s time and that my fiancé would be the Zambian who drove our team, I would have laughed in your face. But God has plans beyond our understanding and I am thankful for that. I have finally come to trust Him with this area of my life (my love life that is) and he is blessing me. I love my future husband and I look forward to the time when he will join me in my hometown and meet everyone near and dear to me as we make final preparations to be joined together forever.