A "Real" Post

I have been thinking that I haven't posted a "real" update in ages! So, here I am posting a "real" update!
Currently, Joseph and I are at home for missions conference at our home church! Sometimes,it just hits me how much I love my home church, the people there and just being there! Tonight, I just loved being there-it felt like home and I felt so loved by my friends there!
While on the road this trip, we were in two missions conferences which were drastically different. The first conference was kind of a let down, we never got to meet the pastor during our time there. I just don't understand how a pastor can get behind the pulpit and emphasize loving the missionaries; but doesn't even have time for them himself?! However, the preaching was great there and really hit home.
Our second conference was in Georgia and it was by far one of the greatest conferences I have ever been to! Joseph and I felt so loved and wanted there! Upon arrival, the table for our display was covered with goodies and snacks that I don't think we will ever finish! Every class we visited gave us money and gifts like blankets, towels, jewelry, candy! The final night of the conference, ladies in the church made each missionary wife a quilt-mine is SO beautiful and it even has a matching pillow case! They also took us on for financial support that night! The preaching was also so wonderful! They did so much for us, I don't really have time to share it all. But, I want to share on the final night of the conference when we were standing on the platform receiving gifts and seeing our plaque go up on the wall to join the missionaries they already support, I felt so revived! Sometimes we look at things and wonder what is God doing, you want to keep going on; but you don't understand why you have to keep going on. This is where I had been at. I don't know if anyone has ever been in this place or can relate; but that week I realized once again the importance of the job that is at hand for Joseph and I. As I stood on that platform, receiving gifts, hearing testimonies about us, I was humbled at what people saw in Joseph and I that I don't even see, humbled that people are willing to 'put their money' on us, intrust us that we can get the job done. When we left that conference, I told Joseph, I want to go-I want to be in Norway. Even now thinking about it, tears come to my eyes...I'm ready to keep pressing on. There are people counting on me even now.
We leave Monday for Oklahoma and will be gone for a few weeks. Short trips this time around; but I think Joseph is trying to book summer. We need meetings. Please pray that we can get meetings for summer.
Well, I am worn out-its time for bed!