The Scheer Flyer: Leaving Arizona and Next Steps

Our time here in Arizona is coming to a close and we are gearing up for the chaos that awaits when we get home (I'll explain below). Though we are feeling ready to be back in Spokane again, we have had an awesome time. Our main goal of the trip was for building our ministry team but we made a vacation out of it too. The weather has been gorgeous, clear skies and average temps in the nineties or higher.

On Wednesday we will board a plane back to Spokane and start a series of some pretty major events over the next several weeks. We had a realtor friend come to look at our house and after his advice and some prayer, we feel that this is the best time to put our house on the market. One thing that we hadn’t anticipated however was moving out before it sells, but he felt that it would be too difficult with young kids (and the small size of our house) to live there while on the market. I had wondered how we would possibly be able to keep it clean with two little ones and toys everywhere, but it never crossed my mind that moving out early would be the solution. In ways we are definitely ready to be free of the burden of the house….keeping up the huge yard, house projects, finding someone to house sit every time we have to leave….it has definitely been stressful, but it’s also very emotional for us. We moved into this little house right after getting married, got our first puppy, put hours and hours of love and care into it, lost our beloved kitty Timon, and had both of our amazing children while living in this house. There are so many memories attached to it! We knew we’d have to let go eventually, but it’s coming sooner than we expected. Nevertheless, we still feel that this is the right timing and have spent a considerable amount of time in prayer about it.

This coming weekend we’ll have a work day to work on house projects to prepare it for the market. My parents will be coming to help. Matt’s parents arrive from Rwanda next week, we are gearing up for the Liberty Lake Community sales the following weekend to sell a lot of our stuff before moving, and we plan on moving out and hopefully putting the house up for sale by the time we leave for our California/Seattle trip June 22^nd. It’s going to be a whirlwind! As far as where we will be living, an amazing couple from Bible study has offered for us to live in their spacious daylight basement until we are ready to leave for Indonesia.

Will you pray with us for peace during all of the transitions and that we’ll be able to get it all done before we leave?

Please also pray that God would be preparing the perfect buyer for our house and that it would sell quickly.