Nogales, AZ

So many praises! We have a host family! We got the news just as we were shutting down the ISP on Friday! What a blessing that is to have someone to stay with to immerse ourselves in language and culture!

We had a great send-off from church with WMPL folks Pat and Arlie and Richard and Leslie down from Bellevue and Sammamish, plus our family and friends from the Thurston County area, and friends from our old church in Graham as well. Lots of prayers and hugs and pictures, even the WMPL song to send us off.





And we’ve had a great trip so far because we’ve been so covered in prayer! We’ve been through areas where there had been heavy rain, flooding, mudslides and snow, and we found none of it! Smooth travel, dry pavement from Grant’s Pass Oregon to here. We just had rain up to that point. Thanks be to God!

We did have a tail/brake light go out on the truck, and you know how unmechanical we are!! Plus we had visions of having to at least partially unpack the truck to reach the light assembly, expense and delay too. Could we be more negative? We pulled into Yreka, stopped at the first repair place that we came to. The clerk was busy telling us that the couldn’t fix it for us and naming off several places in town who could, when one of their customers offered to fix it for us. He got his tools out of his truck and had it fixed in about 10 minutes, no unpacking or repacking necessary! We just had to buy a bulb! His name is Troy and he was definitely heaven sent! What a blessing and a reminder to us as well of God’s faithfulness.

And the house closed on Tuesday without any further hitches! Praise the Lord! We were able to do all of the banking related things we needed to by phone from the hotel yesterday morning, so that is all taken care of! Another praise!

We also got a little lost in San Bernadino, CA, got forced off the freeway when we didn’t want to go due to rush hour traffic, and spent a bit of time trying to get back to where we needed to be in an unfamiliar town in the dark, but with lots of prayer and a good map we got back on track within an hour.

Tonight we are having potluck with the Kennedys of Triumph Church in Nogales, and are staying in one of their houses here. It’s giving us an opportunity to catch up on our laundry and e-mail and to get things in order to cross the border. We hope to do that tomorrow or Saturday. We’d like to be in Mazatlan for church on Sunday…

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your support and prayers…we really appreciate it. More later from Mazatlan!