Grand-Dad Arrives and Goodbyes

Well, we are one day away from leaving. It is Saturday morning for us. Grand-Dad arrived yesterday, Friday afternoon. His plane actually arrived early, so he got through customs, picked up his bags, and came through to see us about 10 minutes before he was originally supposed to arrive! So, the taxi driver wasn't supposed to show up for another hour, so we went upstairs in the airport and were able to have a late lunch at Sparros (a pizza place) before heading home.

Canaan took a few minutes to warm up to Grand-Dad, though he recognized him right away from all our skype calls we've done. But once he played some cars and trucks with Grand-Dad, they were best friends! They've been reading books, playing cars and trucks and talking a lot together. Grand-Dad has learned to interpret his words now! In the picture, you can see that Canaan is "helping" Grand-Dad as he takes apart his little table for the move!

This past week we've also been saying a lot of goodbyes. We've had several people over. I have pictures of a few of them visiting.
Jung Ki, from Korea, came and brought us a beautiful Korean table cloth he'd brought back for us from his visit home. Canaan really liked playing with him, I think because he could say his name easily!
Volodya (our language teacher and friend from church), Mila and their son Artyom (who babysat Canaan during some of our LST sessions) came over one night.
And Eduard and Yelena from our LST sessions also came over.
All these people and more we are going to miss dearly! We have several more goodbyes to say at church on Sunday before we take off. We leave Moscow at 9:15pm Sunday night. Keep us in your prayers. And if you haven't heard yet, our teammates Rob and Denyce and their family made it safely to Kharkov on Thursday! Thanks for all your prayers for them as well!