Please God, not Africa!

We made it! We're here and we're settling and things are good. Here's what's been going on since we left Canada last week... We left London on Monday morning after a very difficult good-bye.  It was hard.  Really hard.  We took at bus to the Toronto airport and from there flew to Paris, then from Paris to Niger, then Niger to Togo.  Amazingly, our trip was completely uneventful. Everything was smooth sailing, even all 18 of our bags and rubbermaid totes made it.  We were very grateful - and still are. We arrived in Lome as very weary travellers but were greeted at the airport by our dear friend and co-worker, Anna.  She and Parico, our Togolese driver, helped us get all our stuff into the van and took us to the Southern Baptist Seminary compound to stay in their guest house.  Sweet Anna had pizza and chips and cold drinks waiting for us when we arrived. The next morning we began our shopping in Lome.  This is the capital of Togo and has ...

Two weeks from today we'll be landing in Lome  - it's so hard to believe that we're that close! Here's where we're at: 1. God has supplied 100% of our monthly support and in fact, we are now over-supported!  Amazing.  Thank you to all of you who have generously and sacrificially supported us - we are so grateful! 2. We've moved out of our house.  We moved out last Thursday and our renter moved in the next morning.  She is a lovely woman who intends to stay for the full 2 years - what an answer to prayer! 3. We received our travel visas!  We're all good to enter the country. 4. We are living with my parents - bless them! It's not like seven people have moved in with the two of them and totally taken over their entire house or anything. We're so grateful to be able to bunk with them for these 2 weeks and finish up some of the details and errands before we go. 5. Flights are booked and our Robert Q shuttle comes to pick us at my parents hous...