August has been pretty quiet for us so far, which we don’t mind a bit after all the adventures we’ve had in the last few months. One such adventure began when we were in Indiana last month. As I mentioned in our road trip post, we borrowed our old Jeep from Luke & Hannah to make the trip to WGM HQ. We drove the Jeep all over the country in all the years we owned it, so it did have a few miles on it. 213,000 to be exact. She’s always run like a champ, though. Until the day she didn’t. The day after we got to HQ, we were driving through town and realized she was running super hot. Pete dropped Ella & me off at the movie theater and took Sam with him to the shop to get her checked out. Alas, they nearly made it. She started smoking and they called a tow truck. A week later, we got the final news. The Jeep was finished. While she was taken to the scrap yard, we looked for another way back to Duluth.

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Just a week after arriving back in the States, we repacked our bags and hit the road for Indiana. World Gospel Mission headquarters is located an hour north of Indianapolis and hold regular debriefing and training sessions for missionaries returning to the US. We don’t yet have a car, so we borrowed our old Jeep from our dear friends who bought it from us before we moved. Driving enabled us to see friends along the way, including Grandma and Grandpa Olsen! And Auntie Kristin, too! I have some really great photos from our visit with them, but they are in the cloud and I can’t seem to get them out. That mysterious cloud, I tell you. I’ll figure it out eventually and share the pictures when I do.

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