Hi friends and family, and anyone else who’s reading this blog,
David and I decided to take turns blogging so this week it’s my turn.
Thank you so much for all your prayers, support, and friendship! Like David said in last week’s post, we got married! We’ve been married for almost exactly a month now. We had a wedding in Tokyo, flew to Hawaii the next day, and came back to California as a married couple on the 9th of this month. (It was hectic!) We have a nice one-bedroom condo in Aliso Viejo in southern California. I love our place. David says it’s not too big but coming from Japan, this place is HUGE to me, at least for a newly-wed couple. I have to be careful not to get too used to all this space so I won’t start complaining how small the house is when we finally make it to Japan.
We will be posting weekly, hopefully more frequently, on this blog to keep you guys posted on what’s going on with us. And here’s what’s going on right now.
We just sent out our first newsletter this afternoon. (Thanks JoAnna for licking the envelopes 🙂 We were also privileged to visit a friend of ours to talk about Japan and our plans this morning and had a very blessed time. It was such an encouragement because she called us and said she wanted to have us over and hear about Japan, instead of we called her and asked if we can meet with her, which is usually what happens. Praise the Lord for encouraging us as we just set out on our support-raising journey together.
Also, exciting news today, our marriage certificate came in mail!! I came to the States on a fiancee visa, and now I have to apply for a permanent resident card (or green card) so I can live in the States legally after my visa expires. And we were waiting for the marriage certificate to come in. Now we can start doing tons of paperwork again to get a green card, social security number, driver’s license, bank account, etc, and to file a Japanese marriage paper. I could do some of that without the marriage certificate, but I didn’t want to go through all the trouble again to change my name on everything so we decided to wait. I am not so excited about all the paperwork we have to do because getting the visa was a LOT of work and I feel like that should have done it, but I guess I’ll just have to get to work.
So that’s it for now. Come back again next week and see if I got the green card yet. Well, probably not, but we might have more exciting things to share with you so make sure you come back!