What have we been doing?

Lots of people are wondering what we’ve been up to lately, so here’s a little glimpse:
Sorting clothes and selling/giving away what we don’t need ¤ Updating our church website ¤ Putting people from our mission in touch with a college here in Canada they may be able to work with ¤ Checking to see what vital statistics the mission office may still need from us ¤ Making comments on the developing of the new CAM website ¤ Investigating what we’ll need in a van and trailer ¤ Returning toys and clothes that we’ve borrowed from other families ¤ Month end finances and reports ¤ Doctors appointments ¤ Updating a website I work on for another mission agency ¤ Working on legal matters regarding finances out of the country ¤ Discussing priorities for packing ¤ Contacting people in Mexico about our travel plans ¤ Scheduling upcoming church speaking engagements ¤ Reading books that CAM requires us to read before we leave ¤ Deciding on which books we’ll need to buy for language school ¤ Preparing to speak ¤ Groceries and cooking ¤ Regular correspondence ¤ Renewing van registration ¤ Sorting out stuff in my closet, deciding what to move and what to throw away ¤ Updating files on the laptop (preparing to get rid of our desktop computer)

Just before this we sent out our newsletter, of course. So that’s just a bit of what we’ve been up to since our last letter.

The other day we were talking about sizes of trailers, so I marked out the size of a trailer we might get on the living room floor. We’re trying to get an idea how much we might be able to bring with us when we move. Hannah and Nathanael were quite helpful measuring things out and giving suggestions, as you can see.

I think we need some kind of scanner that could scan our apartment and automatically tell us what would fit (and how). In reality, we won’t really know until we actually try to fit it in on the day we leave. But there are other issues – such as the duty we’ll have to pay at the Mexican border, and what will and will not survive such a long drive. It’s a priorities game, and we ask God for wisdom every day as we plan.

Now, we just need a real trailer instead of masking tape on the floor…