Training for Togo
posted by Jesse on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Anyone who’s ever been to Africa, or most any other third world country, will tell you that the country moves at its own speed and operates by its own rules. There’s nothing you can do to change it or speed it up. You either adjust or get an ulcer. I know that one thing that will be difficult for me to adjust to is the customer service in Togo, or should I say the lack thereof.
So, over the past couple years whenever Tiffany and I have experienced terrible customer service, we simply tell ourselves, “Well, this must be God’s way of preparing us for Togo.” We are in the middle of one of these kinds of experiences right now.
Almost three weeks ago we ordered all of our 220 volt appliances from a certain website that was a trusted and well-reviewed appliance dealer. With us, however, they didn’t live up to their good reputation. To make a long story short, they are phasing out of selling 220 volt appliances and have not updated their website in order to indicate that, so just about everything we ordered is no longer in stock. Rather than notify me of this, they just canceled the order. About 10 days passed before I figured out what was going on, which puts us in “rush mode” to get some appliances ordered. We are now going through a supplier that is used by our shipping company, and should hopefully have the order completed on Monday. Please just pray that they will arrive in enough time for them to get loaded into the overseas container.
We’re just taking this opportunity to say thanks to God again for another session of Togo training!
Category: Togo Departure, all updates
