Auf Wiedersehen Spokane

Closing my counseling practice was a much harder endeavor than I had anticipated.  However, I saw my last clients on Friday, August 23rd. 

Saying goodbye to good friends was really hard. So many people have touched our hearts in the six years we have lived in Spokane Valley. And we had some angels come to help clean ... 
Jenny, Karen and Dena ... thank you so much for coming to the rescue.

Jenny and Johnnie Johnson invited us over for Sunday dinner. We still had plenty of odds and ends to finish up, but she insisted ... and we're so glad we accepted. It was such a wonderful meal. 

Of course, Jenny made us a German chocolate cake for our send off. Oh so good!

Auf Wiedersehen!

       Here is our packing station. We moved our bed downstairs a few days earlier to make room 

      for the Molters to move in. We came up with the great idea to put up tables for our suitcases.

  It made the packing process much easier. Getting the weight to exactly 50 pounds was a challenge. 

Our Stake President, Geoff Julian gave us very special blessings as he set us apart as full-time missionaries for the Church.  I took comfort in his blessing of health as he blessed me that I could finish my mission.  He also gave Joanne a special blessing as a part of her setting apart that moved us both spiritually.  
We were so grateful that the Spirit was in abundance.

Monday morning and we're ready to head out of town!

I didn't get much sleep the night before as I wanted to have the house all ready for MaryLynn and Dick to start moving in. We felt so blessed to have them be able to rent the house. 

It was a win-win for both of us. We just had to move our personal things downstairs 

since they wouldn't be using it very often. 

Here's Joanne in front of the rental car we used for the last three weeks. Since we sold both of our cars, it worked out well to be able to just drop it off at the airport. We had decided to sell the Subaru and the Ford pickup so we weren't paying insurance and taxes on cars that would just depreciate in value.

Even Delta Airlines knew we were ultimately headed to Germany...

Next stop is St. George, Utah to say goodbye to my mother.