de Boo visit

The highlight of our summer, and maybe even our year, was a visit with our Dutch friends who we met in Tokyo. They came on a 3 week vacation to America and spent four nights and five days with us. It was so encouraging to have them here. We took them to Rocky Mountain National Park and beat out a summer storm on our hike. We took them to Boulder and to Costco since they missed that from Tokyo (they are now back in the Netherlands). We took them to a Denver Rockies baseball game, and again beat out a summer storm. We went swimming in our neighborhood pool and took long walks on the trails nearby. But the best part of all was our sweet fellowship. We had not seen them in nearly 6 years and we literally picked up like no time had passed. I love those kinds of friends, who are family in the Lord. Our connection is much more than a friendship, but a deep spiritual union with our Savior. We dream of being with them again one day, maybe in Japan serving together. They are definitely a family we love and could do life with again together.