One week to go!

It is moving time again! It seems like it always comes sooner than we expected. And it always seems like the packing process makes more of a mess than I remember it making the last time. Yes, once again we have been drowning in boxes and suitcases and all of the stuff we have managed to accumulate. With one week to go we are not looking forward to leaving but we are looking forward to getting back to the Philippines. Our time in the States has flown by but it has been enough time here to feel like we have been able to get our feet back on the ground and are ready to move forward.

Some of the things we are looking forward to:
*As soon as we get settled, Jason will be able to start flying. The time here in the States has given him a chance to get back in the airplane again, and so now with all of the the rust off, he is ready to go. There is a family that moved over in to the Philippines in September and has the flight program up and running and are waiting for us to join them.
* We are looking forward to seeing our friends that we made in the Philippines.
* We have a house waiting for us. This was going to be one of my BIG prayer requests, but the Lord in all his goodness, has gone before my written request and answered my prayer. We are 'inheriting' a house from another missionary couple. That means it should be in move in condition!!! and Jason won't have to spend a month just trying to get the plumbing working (applause!!). We visitied the house before coming back to the States not knowing it would be available and loved it. It is quiet, spacious and even has a bathtub (something we have only seen in hardware stores - never even seen one in a hotel!) plus the house is run off of well water so it will be clean enough to take a bath in! It is looking like we will be here for 2-3 years. We totalled it up the other day and this will be our 14th move so we are really looking forward to being settled.

Some of the ways that you can pray for us:
* We will be doing lots of moving around when we get to the Philippines. We land and travel directly to the town we first settled in, in order to pack up our stuff that is still there. We then head to the town where we were in language study to gather all of the rest of our stuff. All of our stuff then gets put into a container so that we can ship it to the new island we are moving to. We will have to ferry our car seperately, and our family - along with the dog- will fly over. It will take a fair bit of coordination for it to come off without a hitch.
*Pray for our kids as we do all of the moving around and resettling. Mirielle is old enough now that the chaos is making an impact on her. Also pray as we get adjusted to a new time zone. Just traveling over Christmas changed Kellan's sleep schedule so that he was waking up 5-6 times a night. AGH! Pray that he will switch over and get to sleeping quickly for all of our sakes since we will all be sleeping in the same room until we get to our new house.