Itsara

For those of you who send us surface mail (that’s right, both of you), you can no longer use our PO Box as an address. Just to make it clear: Don’t send anything to PO Box 34 Hangdong Post Office! cuz we won’t get it.

We know what our new address will be, but there aren’t any street numbers on the front of the house yet, and I honestly don’t know what will happen to mail that is sent to us. Will it find us? I have no idea. So don’t send us anything for the moment just in case. I’ll let you know when it’s okay again.

These are our new addresses, but don’t use them until I tell you to:

It’s finally a reality. Our houses are finished, more or less, and we are moved in. The houses feel really big, which makes sense. We didn’t design these houses because we need the space now, but because we expect to need it in the future. Jess says she can already see how they’ll be filled. With the way we’ve been feeling lately, I don’t have her faith, but then again we’ve walked this road before and watched God fill the space he told us to create.

Anyway, the future aside, here are the pictures I promised. They were taken over the last few weeks, so the details might change from picture to picture as we’ve gotten work done. I’ve included captions for you. The inside shots are pretty much all from the Heines’ house. I haven’t taken pictures of Sean’s place yet, sorry (though I bet he has).

We have internet now, so pictures and some more information will be coming soon. The mission team from Coast arrives today and will be with us for a day or two, which is primarily what will delay things.

The move is over, more or less. We’re all in the new house. The old house is completely empty. Most things in the new house work and the rest is getting connected as we speak.

Unfortunately, high on the list of things that is not working is the internet. They said they would connect it last Thursday. It’s Wednesday, and they haven’t. And now they’re saying they’ll come on Friday and hook up Sean’s house and another day for our house. We’ll see about that.

Matt and Sandra are in the US now. Cindy, Isaac, and I are enjoying the break, though most of our time is spent making the house the way we want it. And the team will be coming soon to joyfully and wonderfully wreck our unstable lives. We can’t wait, I mean it.

Maybe we’ll get to rest next month. Or in September. We’ll see. I’ll take what I can get.

We’re moving in two days, if all goes to plan. There are still things unfinished over there, but if we don’t move this Saturday then whatever other day we do it will be very difficult.

But in particular, the phone and internet are not hooked up over there yet. Until they are, posting here and at Author’s Echo will likely be slim. While you’re waiting, read and comment on any posts you’ve missed. It’ll be fun. Really.

There was some kind of bug with the automatic e-mail system, so some of you might not have been notified of any posts for the last month or so. Sorry about that. Hopefully with this post that’s all fixed. If you’re like me and you have to read everything, start here and use the links at the top to move forward to newer posts.

If you’d rather just skim, go to the front page and scroll down to see if you missed anything good.