Journalnya Asti

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I'm Backkk!!!!!

Hey, I'm Back for blogging again!

Finally...... :)
I think my last blog was on January 2007 and after that my journey was not stop over there. My life still moving on and I have a lot of story to talk about. I don't think I will talk about my missed 3 years story in one page but I'm going to make it short and simple. How about that?

Ok, let's start....
After we moved from St.Cloud, MN we lived in Henderson, NV it's about 10 minuets drive to Las Vegas Strip. We lived with my husband's aunt and uncle for a year. They're a wonderful person both of them off course. They helped us a lot while we lived there. Randall got a good job in Vegas, the company loved him and they're willing to give a sponsorship for applying H1 visa. Kara had a good public school in Henderson. Everything seems a dream come true for us after we tried for 7 years to stay in The States. We thought we're going to start our new chapter our life over there after Randall graduated from his Masters.

Long story short, but the lucky charm wasn't in our side that time. The lawyer screwed up with the paper work for the immigration department and we couldn't post the paper work on time. He seems didn't care because before the quota for the H1 gone he took 1 week vacation and we couldn't reach him at all. We already warned and told him to post the paper work by April 1st right the way, but he said we still have a lot of chance. Any way we didn't get the H1 visa and that mean we have to go back to Indonesia after our visa due.
That time was the hardest part in our life facing the reality. We cried, prayed, and asked God why that could happen to us.
But we realize that God's has a purpose for us in Jakarta and He already has plan for us too.

We moved to Indonesia again, 4 of us. We start our life again over here from zero. The support and helped from our big family means a lot for us. Thanks to them that we can get through the adjusting part smoothly even though that wasn't easy as you see. We really appreciate it for what they've done for us.
But the biggest helped is came from our Lovely Father in heaven! He never lets us down and never leaves us alone in every situation.

Right now we're live in Jakarta. I'm working as a librarian in the national plus school at South Jakarta area. Randall is working in a production house company at Kemang area. Our daughters growing so fast. Kara will turning 11 this coming October and she's in grade 5 right now. And Keila is 5, she's in kindergarten.

Once again why I believe that God's already has plans for us over here because in just 3 months we found a right church for 4 of us, IES (International English Service) that's the name of our church. The church is in English that made the girls easy to adjust for Sunday school and for Randall, the first time we came into IES he fell in love right the way. Because they have the full band for worship as so you know Randall's passion is in music. And like usual he joined in the music team and he really enjoy playing over there. We've been blessed a lot in the past 2 years with the IES community.

That was my journey in the past 3 years.

Love you all.... :)