A Sad Goodbye

This past Monday was the Sayonara Party, and the last day to spend with our students. Having Tomomi and Arisa stay with us was such a tremendous blessing. They are both such sweet girls and so fun to be around. The girls and I told told each other that we couldn't cry until the goodbye letters were being read, and that's when the flood started. When Arisa said to us that she really liked that we brought her into our family and treated her just like a Miller (which they both are) I started to cry, and then when Tomomi said that I was like an older sister, and that I was her best friend, I couldn't help but cry. It's funny because I'm not that much of a crier, but these past two years of HMI, my eyes would still be swollen the next day from crying so much when saying goodbye the night before. It was a fun time that we had with them, and we look forward to the future, and hope and pray that that it is God's will for us to go to Japan in the Spring. We all miss Tomomi and Arisa, and know that if we don't see them again on this earth, we will see them for sure in Heaven.

This was our last lunch together, we ate at Taco Bell, which surprisingly, the girls liked the food.

Tomomi and Arisa all ready to go the the Sayonara
Best Friends

Haruka and I

Eric asleep on Don's chair. Was the party really that boring?

Don just about to open a gift from Bridget.

OHHHH, It's a t-shirt!!!

"Next it's the Miller's"

Arisa, is obviously saying something about Julia, can you tell by the look on Julia's face?

Tomomi reading her precious letter.

Ok everyone, group hug.

Our last picture as a family. There we three camera's going at once, so we're not all looking at the same one.