Kendal's view

Hey its Kendal
I am scared to go to a new school. This will be an amazing opportunity for me and my family. The last couple of days have been a mess trying to juggle everything at once like moving out of our house and getting ready to go to Japan. When I say getting ready I mean shopping for clothes with tons of stress and not knowing what we need and what we don't. I'm glad almost all of the stress is gone but now we have a hudge adventure ahead of us! There will be tons more stress ahead of us though. The time differences will be way too crazy now because Japan is 13 hours ahead of the states. I am so excited to learn Japanese within these two years. I am very sad to leave all my friends but I know that I will come back to visit America. My school is an all girls school that teaches in English the school is a catholic school but it doesn't push the catholic religion. The school teaches world religion. The school's uniform skirts are so ugly. I will have 4 periods of Japanese a week! I am so excited to learn this language!

Falling into Place

The movers are coming tomorrow to see what they are going to need to do in order to get our stuff moved. We need to tell them what goes to Japan and what is going into storage. How do you tell movers what goes where when you don't even know yourself? It would be much easier if I knew a little bit more about my new place. Don't get me wrong I have a general idea of what is going and what is not. As you can probably see I am struggling today.

My main struggle right now is not figuring all this out. I know it will get done one way or another. I struggle to trust that all this IS God's timing. I would have LOVED to know all this months ago (just ask my hubby). It would have just made things so easy. I can't begin to tell you how much I love when things are easy. Yet this morning as I started this post I felt like God was asking me "Would it really have mattered if I had all my answers 4 months ago or get them tomorrow?" The honest answer is No it would not have mattered. I still would be sitting here in my living room trying to figure out what I was going to take with me to Japan. I know when I get to Japan I will think Aaaaahhhh I wish I had brought ________. I may even say Why did I bring this?

There seems to be a few good lessons God is really trying to teach me. I am learning that my timing is not always His timing. He also seems to want me to be leaning more on Him than on myself (DUH Jen). Oh and the biggest one yet. I need to trust in Him!

Things are falling into place with our move. Tomorrow will bring many answers and probably more questions, but I'm ok with that. 


Thanks for reading
     Jen

Why are you moving?

I love this question. Why are you moving? The hubby is being given an opprotunity that just doesn't happen very often in the company he works for. He will be learning a bunch and getting more experience in his field. This will also help futher his career. All good things. But that's really not the real reason as you will soon see...

I would've loved to be in my husband's head when he was thinking about how to propose moving our family to Tokyo for a year. I'm sure he thought Jen is gonna freak out. I remember praying that God would help me not to flip out. My response to him, originally was "are you serious?" Once again praying he would say 'no I'm just messing you [insert laugh]'! Yet after 10 minutes of listening to him I realized he was dead serious. It became very clear that hubby and I were on different pages. All I could think of was leaving EVERYTHING I knew for a bunch of unknown. Yeah I was kind of freaking out!


 Honestly I struggled to be happy about this. I just wasn't in faith to move across the world. Someone reminded me that as a wife it was part of my job to support my man. This woman was quoting me! Yep that was a bold friend. I prayed constantly that God would give me faith to move, but more importantly change my hubby's mind. I remember praying that God would make my husband see it was crazy to move us to Tokyo! Fast forward a few months, I have agreed to move for a year. During the previous few months God was really showing me how faithful He had been to me. So now I finally have the faith to move for a year. Then one day my wonderful husband comes home and says 'We aren't moving to Tokyo for only a year! We get to live there for 2 years!' I will admit I had a temper tantrum like a 2yr old. It was not one of my better moments. That poor husband of mine was probably not expecting me to respond this way. I had convinced myself that I could do a year! On the plus side it took less time for me to see that I was relying on my abilities and not on God to help me. 


Now here we are almost ready to move. There are tons of stuff left for me to do, begin and finish. We have not gotten an apartment or our visas. The older girls have to a Skype interview with the school. We still need a renter for our house. I have yet to even begin the packing process. I have about 30+ days till I am suppose to get on a plane to start my new life in Tokyo. I am extremely excited to see what God is going do. I am also very sad to leave my family, friends, and church behind. Yet I know that God will be there with us the whole way. So the real answer to why we are moving? is that this is what God has planned for my hubby, daughters, and me