The country and the language

We are trying to accomplish all of the tasks required of us in the missionary packet; there are many.  We feel a little like the ant in the song "Hi Hopes" by Frank Sinatra and hope we can take down "another rubber tree plant" as we attempt to complete each of our tasks.  The language learning itself seems daunting as we will have to do much of the learning independently before our mission due to Krisy's work and Krisy and my evening schedules. Fortunately, the languages spoken in both Romania and Moldova are very similar and are Latin-based (Romance) languages so our knowledge of Spanish and Italian will help us.  Moldova speaks a form of Romanian; like going to the deep South or New England from the West coast in the US.  There are so many other things to do including all of the financial plans and preparing our house for the onslaught of kids and grand-kids that will descend on it throughout the two years we are gone.  We hope it will be a busy and inviting home for them.  We are studying what we can find of the culture(s), history, economics, food and religions of the country to better prepare ourselves to serve the Lord and people there.