Idaho! Here We Come!

Well, the time is drawing near for us to leave our home in Michigan and relocate to Idaho! We have 5 days left here in Michigan. We cannot believe how the time has flown by. It seems like just yesterday that we were getting here. We are so thankful for all the Lord has taught us and for all the amazing things He has done while we have been here. We are very excited to see how God uses this next phase in our life.
We will be leaving MI friday morning (probably around 9 or 10) and will be gong to Lincoln NE. Saturday we will go to Colorado Springs CO, Sunday will be to Salt Lake City UT, and then Monday the short drive up to Idaho Falls. Its going to be 2,100 miles and we will each be driving a vehicle. We have arranged an appartment and are thankful for its handy location (within walking distance to both of Amanda's jobs). She will be working at Bath and Body Works, as well as an assisted living home. Mitch is currently looking for a job and we are interested in seeing what the Lord opens up him.
We will be in Idaho for only 3 weeks then we will be going up to Alaska for 5 days for a friends wedding. We cannot wait to get up there and visit everyone! Once we return from there we will just be getting settled and getting plugged in at our church, Christ Communisty Church, as best we can. We want to get to know our family of believers that we have there, and cant wait for it!
Thanks to every one of you who are part of our lives! You all are very important to us! Untill next time...
Mitch & Amanda

Classes, Courses, & the Soft Winds of Change

Over the course of Christmas break Amanda began working full time. We also finally were able to complete Mitch's green card paperwork! What a huge process that has been! Sense then, Amanda switched her work schedule from working 2-10pm, to now working 6-2pm. It is much nicer having that because she is working while Mitch is in classes.
We had to go to Detroit last week to get some fingerprinting done for Mitch's green card where we were told some great news! They told us that Mitch's work permit should be in the mail any day now! We were not expecting it to come until April. What a huge blessing it will be to get it sooner! The job market in Jackson is especially bad, and we are praying that he will find a job and find one quick. We will be thankful for anything.
We are currently taking a course with our church called Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey. It is a great course on financial wisdom, how to get out of dept, stay out of dept, and how to be able to save money and handle it how God intended it to be handled. It has been great so far and we are looking forward to all that we will learn through it.
As we are looking ahead to the next couple months we are seeing lots of change coming our way. Right now we are working on paying off some of our debts so that we can save up money to move back to Idaho after Mitch graduates. The move is coming sooner than we know! We are beginning to sell some of our stuff that we don't want to move and to get rid of extra 'stuff'. As of right now we are not sure when we will be moving, it all depends on when we can get enough saved up to do it. It will all happen in the Lords time. :)
Well, that's all for now! We hope you all are doing great! We miss everyone so much and cannot wait to hear from you and/or see you. We are praying for you, and would appreciate your prayers as well!
thanks so much!
the Chaplin's

Amanda Graduated!

Hello to all! So...Amanda graduated on the 13th. The semester ended with a bang, as we finished classes and all of Amanda's classmates were frantically trying to get packed and prepare for family memebers and friends to arrive for the graduation that was held at the school in the auditorium. The graduation went very smoothly.

Now that Amanda is all graduated she is going to begin working. She will be working at the nursing home here and also at Bath and Body Works for the holidays. She really enjoys her job and likes being able to help the people there as much as possible. She is currently working 2pm-10:30pm and she is trying to switch to the 6am-2:30pm shift so she will be home more when Mitchell will be.

Mitchell will be entering his senior semester this January. He will then graduate in May. After that we are desiring to go on with our training with New Tribes Mission to that Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Camdenton Missouri, but first we need to take some time off to get plugged into our church in Idaho-Christ Community Church. We would also love to be able to spend some time in Alaska at Wasilla Bible Church to reconnect with all of the wonderful people that Amanda knows up there, and to be able to serve there, but we are not sure when that will happen. We are just looking forward to what is going on now in our lives, and also for the things that are to come!

We got the paper from the U.S. Government telling us when Mitch's appointment to get his finger prints done (Dec. 27th). After we get those done we will just be waiting for his work permit to come in the mail. As soon as he gets that he can begin working. He is looking forward to that.

We want to thank all of you again, our dear friends and family, for all your support. It means so much! We long to see you all again, and look forward to be able to spend some time with you.

With love,

the Chaplins