Oliver becomes part of the family

Well, wonders never cease.   While I was out at BYU with Jessica, there was a young man in Germany wishing to come to America.  On the day I flew back home I received an email asking if we could welcome a young man from Germany for a short time until the agency can find him a permanent home.

We talked it over as a family and decided we would like to help this young man by opening our home to him and his dreams of coming to America.  We announced that we would welcome him on Tuesday.  On Friday I received a phone call saying, "Your foreign exchange student is at the airport, are you coming to get him?"

Betsy:  "WHAT???"  "We didn't even know he was coming!  I'll be right there."  Oh, MY goodness.  How could this happen?  Somebody didn't tell us that he was coming.  I made a quick phone call on my way out the door to find out what was going on, nobody understood how he could be here without anyone knowing…

Well, to make a long story short, Oliver is here - safe and sound and SUPER happy to be here in America.  We love having him in our home.  He has his own room (Jessica's transformed into a boy's room).  He is attending high school, working out, running and enjoying the opportunity to live in America.