Excitisad

Vicki Ostermann • January 7, 2014

Excitisad…..no, this isn’t a typo. This is the best way I can describe the feeling that I continually have as I pack up our house and prepare to move to Uganda. I go through a drawer and find mementos from my childhood or high school days and I get sucked in and have to force myself to stay on track. Other days I find myself longing to finally be in our new home watching our sweet girls play in our Ugandan yard under a palm tree or be out in a village or in a classroom equipping Ugandan women with information that will change their lives.

I’m so excited to begin this new journey with my family. I know we will do amazing things and meet even more amazing people. Our girls will gain a perspective on life that they would never be able to if they didn’t spend time in a third world country. I look forward to using our home there as a free place for mission teams to come and stay. I can’t wait to take the girls around to all the fun places we visited and experience new things together, too! I want to share the Good News with the beautiful people there and see their lives changed in a positive way here on earth and in an eternal way in Heaven! The possibilities are endless and the daydreaming of our future life is really fun!

However, the sad part hits me from time to time. I can’t even imagine the heartbreak I’ll feel as I say ‘see you later’ to our family. I don’t want to use the word goodbye because it isn’t for forever. We are a close family that sees each other all the time instead of only on the holidays. We only lives three houses down from my mom and dad and only 8 miles away from Klint’s parents. Life will be incredibly different for all of us in a way that is not exciting at all. We have incredible friends that I do not want to say ‘see you later’ to either. Technology will help tremendously, but I know it’s not the same. Please continue to lift our family up in prayer, but not just us, our extended families as well. I know this will be hard on them…..really hard. Please pray for their hearts to be comforted and for the distance between us to not feel so far.

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