It's been a year since we moved to the good 'ol USA. There have been hard times and adjustments but I am extremely grateful for all the learning that has occurred. In our family scripture study this morning, we discussed how we grow from our trials, and sometimes we are even....grateful...for the pain we've gone through. With a choice to focus on the positive, I'll share a few things that stand out in the "win" column this year, our first year in the USA. I survived moving the kids and I to …
The 9th Chinese-Western Couple…..
Okay, we weren't the 9th Chinese-Western couple in the history of the world, but we were the 9th to apply for a marriage certificate in the province of Hubei, China. The obstacles still seem insurmountable when I look back on it, but the fact is, we did manage to get our marriage certificate and actually became husband and wife back in 2002. We celebrated, fittingly, with soup. This wasn't "the" soup---but it was special soup nonetheless. We had almost no money to our name, but we were …