Happy
posted by Jesse on Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Happy New Year, happy birthday, and happy to be done packing!
First of all, I apologize for not keeping you all more up to date with what’s been going on. We were so busy over the past week that posting something on the blog about our shipment completely slipped my mind. Our shipment got scheduled for Wednesday, New Years Eve, for “sometime in the afternoon.” In this whole process I discovered that trucking companies are not very specific with pick-up times!
So, the afternoon rolled around and still no truck. After a few phone calls I found out that the truck had been stuck in the snow up at Mt. Hood earlier in the day and that had delayed it for a few hours. Around 7:00, it finally showed up and we started loading. We had only one hour to load or else they start charging us for extra time, but thankfully we had plenty of people who had volunteered to help us out. We got it all on the truck and organized with plenty of time to spare.
As I stood in the rain watching the truck pull out of our driveway and down the road, I couldn’t help but think that the next time we see all our stuff will be in Togo. It was a very surreal moment, one that I probably will never forget. Then my very next thought was, “AAAAHHHH!!!! We forgot something really important!” I had no idea what that “something” was, but it’s the same feeling that I get every single time we move! I don’t think that we’ve ever forgotten anything really important, but I still get that feeling every time we pack and move somewhere, which seems to be about every six months!
To be completely honest, the last couple of weeks wore me out. Physically and mentally I came to the limit Wednesday night. I wasn’t “stressed out” at all, but just very, very tired. So after finishing, Tiffany, Joshua, and I went to the closest restaurant and just chilled out and ate dinner together. It was the most relaxing New Years celebration I’ve ever had. We slept in on New Years Day, which happens to be my birthday by the way, and just took it easy. It felt very nice to not lift boxes or work out pesky shipping details for one day!
Today, we’re back to work though. We’ve received our Ghana visas (which is where we will fly in to), so now we’re working on our Togo visas. On Monday, Tiffany and Joshua will get their Yellow Fever shot, and with this we will be able to send out our applications. Please be in prayer that these get processed with no problems and sent back to us quickly.
We’ve got a lot of loose ends to tie up in the next month, but it is a huge relief to be done with all the shipment. In case you’re wondering, from here the truck will take our things to Friends in Action in Missouri, where they will put it all into an overseas container that will be shipped out around the end of January.
Category: Togo Departure, all updates
