Hello Friends & Family,
Well it’s fast approaching that time when we will be
leaving for Uganda. Our flight leaves on Tuesday, March 11 at 9:45pm.
Craziness. The past week has been packed with changes and a million things to
do. I have attached a picture I took of our “to-do” list that hopefully makes
you laugh with all the things we have done & have yet to do this week. My
favorite item on the list is “pack the house.” It makes us laugh.
Some highlights of the past few weeks include:
- Jay had emergency dental surgery that has culminated into Jay having an implant put in late this week. More craziness. Expensive craziness.
- Jay’s last day of work was on February 28. Was harder to leave than I thought it would be. The company I worked for has been great and I really enjoyed the people.
- We met and had lunch with another young family here in Surrey, who is where we were last year with EMI. They are looking into long term commitments and going on an exploratory trip this week. Cool to look over the past year and see what all has happened and the things God has done to get us to this point.
- Our house is looking more and more like a bomb went off with all the purging and packing going on.
- We have had numerous people give us gifts of food, gift cards and time to help us with our move in the past few weeks. We thank all of you so much. It’s been great to see the community around us.
- We had our garage sale a few weekends ago and it went great. We sold most everything we wanted to, which was surprising since we woke up to snow that morning. One of the shoppers put it into perspective when they said we were doing great because we had no competition that day. I mean who else does a garage sale on a winter snowy day??
- We learned that one of the EMI staff families in Uganda is throwing a St. Patrick’s Day party 2 days after we get there. We are excited for the opportunity to get to meet a lot of the families at a fun event early on. We have also been told we have to wear something green and bring an Irish joke. If anyone has a good joke, let us know.
- We have been looking at places to rent through pictures and emails coordinated by the EMI staff. I have attached a picture of the current place we are hoping to get. We are excited about this place and we’ll see what happens.
We want to thank everyone for their support and help
with getting us to our goal. We made it. It has also been very cool to see God show
up in this past year. Becky and I were talking the other night and we’ve
learned something cool in the past year: if we pray specifically, God answers
specifically. I think we pray generally to God a lot of the times because we
either don’t believe He will really answer and so we are just going through the
motions or because we want God to read our minds. But I don’t think God works
that way. He wants to be in relationship with us. He wants us to ask Him.
“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask
for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be
opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives.
Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
You parents—if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone
instead? Or if
they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him.”
Matthew
7:7-11
So to recap, we are flying out on Tuesday, March 11 at 9:45pm from
Vancouver. We have an overnight layover in London and then on to Kampala,
Uganda. In our next blog post, we will hopefully have cell phones by then and
will be able to post our numbers if you wish to call. We will also post our
addresses if anyone wishes to mail anything. Please e-mail as well, we would
love to hear from you.
- We would have a good time with family & friends before we leave.
- We would sell our second car.
- We would have a relaxing flight with the kids. That we enjoy our time not packing.
- Communication. For Jay and Becky to be patient with each other and communicate well in these busy and sometimes stressful days.
- We would have a good transition to Ugandan life.
- We would experience God in new ways as we step out on this journey.
Thank you all so much,
Jay, Becky, Nathaniel & Bethany Whisnand
whisnands.blogspot.ca
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