Thursday, April 28, 2011

It Was A Big Job But We Will Be Finished On Time!

Sorry that it has been so long since my last post, this answer to our prayers has turned out to be a lot of work.  I am not complaining it was a blessing, it just took all our effort and energy to get everything out of the house by May 1st.  We were able to get everything that we want to keep out but there is still quite a bit of stuff that we are giving to our church youth group that we need to move tomorrow.  The youth group has an annual sale in the spring, so it made sense to give a lot of the stuff that we didn't want to them so they could move it.  The plan was they would get a group of kids together and they would load and unload it.  Well that is not happening so I get to help the youth director load and unload it.  So one more day of moving and we will be all done, with the move that is.  Now we have the monumental task of unpacking and finding places to put all of the stuff that is currently sitting all around the house, in the garage, in a trailer (that is sitting in our backyard), in my moms garage and in a small storage room of our church.  Tonight I have to go back to the house and take down some ceiling fans and put up the regular lights that were there when we moved in, load up the rest of the cleaning supplies and wait for the youth director to help us move stuff tomorrow.  Will keep you up to date hopefully a little better after this move is finished.

Well, I just got finished with the fans and putting up the old lights, so now I just have to get the stuff to the church youth sale and load up all of the cleaning supplies.  That should take most of the morning tomorrow and possibly part of the afternoon, depending on how much help I have.  Then I can turn in the keys and ask for my move out incentive money.  Praise the Lord!

On a side note, Kelly and I are trying our best to get completely out of debt (not including the house) so that we can get on the mission field sooner rather than later.  In order to do this we are selling a lot of things that we have collected just for this occasion.  We started collecting things just for the sake of collecting them knowing that we may end up on the mission field one day we decided that we would sell them when the day was looking more realistic.  That time it seems has come so we are selling a lot of things (mostly my things as I am the collector of the family).  We have over 500 board games, I am selling all of my darkroom equipment, all of my film cameras, all of my small collectibles and I am not sure what else off the top of my head.  We are also selling an electric range, a microwave, a dishwasher and a few other things.  Possibly a bed or two as well.  If you need any of these items or know someone who does leave me a comment (with your name and number)and I will call you.






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This blog is an attempt to chronicle the things that God is doing for us and through us both here at home and while we are in Africa. We will be updating this blog weekly while we are home, Africa will be a different story. Due to unreliable electric and Internet we are not sure how often we will be able to but we plan to update daily if we are able.

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