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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nOf course if you get our newsletter, you already know about the most notable news from our visit – an engagement!<\/em><\/strong> In case you missed it, here’s the note right from our letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No doubt there will be more news to come on that topic! But I can tell you that we’re looking forward to a wedding in the spring. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our trip home to Mexico was somewhat eventful, due to a cancelled flight. We ended up travelling for almost 24 hours to get from Calgary back to Ixtapaluca, unexpectedly visiting San Francisco along the way, but God was good and we arrived – even with all our luggage, which boarded more airplanes than we did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We appreciate many of you who prayed for our trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, after being gone for a few weeks, we’re leaping back into life here. There’s lots to get done over the next little while. But Christmas is coming! So we’re hoping to get a bit of a break over the holidays if the Lord allows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not going to take the time to tell you about all of our whirlwind adventures in Canada. But let’s just say that it was an extremely busy, but also very good time! We had the opportunity to serve in 6 churches in Alberta, get some paperwork and other errands taken care of, attend a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,18,1413],"tags":[791,2761,51,179,571],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-ministry-glimpses","category-prayer-and-praise","category-st-highlight","tag-alberta","tag-brandon","tag-canada","tag-hannah","tag-travel","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"\n