The Trip....Update

WELL.... tomorrow is the day of departure.
It's been a long couple of weeks trying to put it all together.
I have been collecting clothes for the village and t-shirts have been rolling in here in the last week so that I have 2- 50lb bags filled with village clothes and two more bags with clothes and other stuff. Thank you to all who have so graciously donated.

Sage is excited. Good thing that he has grown 5 inches in the last 6 months. He will have to lift these bags for me. I just know that he is going to do it cheerfully:)
The boy is 14 and eats constantly, but that will change in the next month.
We could not carry enough snacks to keep him going. Maybe he will fall in love with sour sop, yams or coconut?

Joel is doing better. His leg appears to have healed nicely. We are thankful.
Last week Erik, suggested that if things were not okay they would come back to the states and I would have to cancel trip.
I won't even share how I handled that. Through tears,
I kept looking at the stacks of clothes in my living room while trying to keep it together.
Art says that I am to stressed. okay whatever....
I have to say though he is so sweet to me....always supportive even though he is always anxious and sad when I take off on one of my trips.

So as we leave I ask you to pray for us.
Safety, that we will stay well, and all will go smoothly.
We arrive in Vanuatu on your Wednesday.

I will try and keep blogs updated at least while I have Internet access.