{"id":5732,"date":"2015-11-05T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2015-11-05T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T00:55:10","slug":"connecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"Connecting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past few days were great. We spent Monday-Wednesday down in the Cities with the Templetons and Fulks. Jon, Lorena, and family flew in from Pennsylvania and spent three days with us, talking, planning, laughing, and herding toddlers.<\/p>\n

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It was exciting to talk about moving over to Spain in the next few months. We brainstormed about home location, volunteer opportunities, and even things like furnishing our apartment. We also just talked about life. We shared what we were learning, where we were struggling, what excites us, and what scares us.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think I can overstate the importance of friends with whom you can open your heart. I thank God that people like the Templetons and Fulks are teaching me how to do that through their example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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