Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The big move: To the Land Down Under!

Yup you've guessed it... God is up to something again---except this time it's pretty big! Long story short, God spoke to us a year ago about Australia and after scouting out the land on our last trip, He has spoken to us about moving there! Um ya... Check out how he did it on our quick video. Love you guys...

Oh ya...We'll be coming back to Santa Barbara June 12th for a little over a month to see friends, raise support and figure out how to move all our stuff. So we'd love to see whoever is around. We are so excited!

I'm always making some funny face our videos.. =)



Below are the rest of our pics from Australia!





Met up with some great people!


Luke finally got to surf.. quite a few times actually!



This is our wonderful friend Whitney Hilliard. We will be staffing with her at the Sunshine Coast YWAM base. She is the BEST!! We are so lucky to staff with her.


Brisbane is a really cool city. Really tropical.

The city is not by the ocean so this is for all the city people to tan at. Pretty cool if you ask me.


We went down to Burleigh Heads and stayed with my old roommate Jessica and her husband Tony. While we were down there we ran into some friends of friends. God is full of fun divine appointments.

Tony and Luke snuggling up together!! Aren't they cute? ;)
Burleigh Heads was so beautiful. We just felt spoiled getting to hang out there with Tony and Jessica. Man they spoiled us! Thank you Jesus. We really needed a nice rest after India.

Me and Jess! Love that girl!

Australians are so nice that when it started raining a lady, with the HUGEST umbrella ever, kindly offered to walk Luke and Tony through the rain! I had to take a picture!

Luke found a shop to rent a board and got to surf a bunch! The waves PUMPED the WHOLE time we were there. And just as we were leaving they tapered off. He was happy about that. Not missing out on anything.


We found a friend.



Australia is known for their Ginger Beer. Kinda like a soda but made with real stuff... Come on America would you just catch up. ;)

Our trip was finally ending. On our way back to Montana, which by the way took about 40 hours, we missed our flight in Denver BUT IT WAS A TOTAL GOD THING cuz our wonderful friends Ivan and Krissy came and picked us up and fed us, housed us and drove us back in the morning. We are so grateful for good friends! It was so refreshing to see them! Go God. Divine appointments even up to the last second.

Well here we are... POOPED from traveling... but we did it. God was so good... I can't believe the life we get to live. There's nothing more exiting than following Jesus!


Bless you all. We'll see you soon!
Luke and Bethany

5 comments:

~j~ said...

so sad to be missing you guys :(
we will leave the front porch light on and pray for a refreshing, restful time before your next departure.
Love you so much,
j and d
xo

Brittney Crooks said...

SO RAD!!!! Love it, but love you guys way more. We can't wait to see you and have you over for a night to just hang out and sit together. Emma will almost be one when you guys come down too! Alright, anyways, just wanted to tell you guys how much we love you. You're always in our prayers. Safe travels and we'll see you soon. Much love, the Crooks Family

Becky Dellar said...

INCREDIBLE!!! I can't wait to hear how he told you, how He confirmed...AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHH!!! :D :D

Rachel said...

That's so great that the Lord confirmed that for you. I'm graduating UCSB on the 12th and then leaving Santa Barbara on the 14th, but maybe I'll catch you guys at church on the 13th? If not, we'll be in touch. Miss you guys!

N. R. Deshpande said...

Great photographs especially the butterfly and the beaches are excellent