We finished Language School and are back in the USA till Jan.

On Dec. 12, we graduated from a year at language school in Costa Rica! What a week its been...on Monday, Debbi did her final report, both written (20 pages) and oral(20minutes), in front of the entire school body.
Tuesday, Debbi went to see the doctor, and found out she has bronchitis again (doctor said due to the mold and humidity there)! Not a good thing to have with a busy schedule ahead, and traveling.

Then on Wednesday evening, our next door neighbors (Pat & Mike Henningsen) invited us for a going away supper at their apt., and while there, a bunch of students from the school showed up for a surprise party for our 32nd Anniversary! Then they all suprised us with a Mariachi Band who came to play for us! Both Roger & I wept with joy, as it reminded us so much of Mexico!!

On Friday, we received our diplomas at graduation....what a feeling of relief..no more studying, no more tests, etc! The next morning, our good Canadian friends who lived upstairs (Scott & Melissa Williams)drove us to the aiport in their rental car (thanks!!)..and we flew into Minneapolis, MN and stayed with Debbi's family. The next 2 days were spent visiting family in a whirlwind trip with temperatures of -18 and wind chills of -30 below zero! We had to just layer our clothing, as our winter clothes are in storage in Texas!

Then on Tuesday, we flew into Springfield, MO and were met at the airport by Jim Wellborn with our new Speed The Light vehicle (thank you So. Tx Youth)! Roger was so excited to be able to drive again, after a year of walking or taking bus or taxi! We then drove to JOsh & Albessa's in San Antonio, where we will be basing ourselves out of, while we drive to the Valley to visit Jeremy and some of our friends, and to Utah to visit Charity.

This Christmas will be the 1st time our family will all be together in 6 years...even though Charity will only be here for 10 hours (and is actually working a flight overnight here)...but together is together, no matter how long, we're just thankful to all be together (including Zacky..who by the way is very old now).

Almost finished here!!

We are almost finished with this year of spanish language school here in San Jose, Costa Rica. We have been very busy this last semester of school, trying to learn all that we can here. As we are getting ready to graduate, we are required to either preach in Spanish and/or do a final project in Spanish in front of the entire school body. Roger was able to accomplish preaching his 1st sermon in Spanish 2 weeks ago and did a wonderful job! Our great techy neighbor (thanks Scott!) video taped it for us, and we have posted it on our new Facebook group called: Audorffs Missions in Monterrey (in case you want to join this group, contact us).
Next week Debbi & Leslie (missionary to Colombia) will be presenting their project "La Cumbia" to the school.
We've experienced lots of things this year, including waking up at 1:00am from a tremor from a 6.5 earthquake that was just south of us 3 weeks ago! We've heard gunshots both around our apartment and close to the school this year, we've really improved our spanish, we've met lots of wonderful new friends (both students and teachers and others) and something that was very special to us both this past month, was attending the International YWAM DNA Conference here in San Jose, CR. While there we had a chance to sit and chat with Loren Cunningham, the founder of YWAM, and share what God has been doing in our lives in this change of ministries...and with that he blessed us to do whatever God is calling us to do. We also met with our former National and Regional leaders in YWAM and had a wonderful time with them. We pray that God reveals His plan in this change, and we are believing that He knows best, and has both our and His best in mind.