Sunday, December 04, 2005

The best laid plans...

Well, we had planned to get to Brazil and immediately keep all of our supporters and friends up to date on all that has been going on with us through this blog. Plans don't always work out like you want them to. We've been doing very well since we got here. The first week of school for Cary and the girls went great. The girls have already started to make new friends and Cary just thrilled to be back to work. However, not everything is working out well. For instance, the school provides us with a car while we work here, but on the day we were scheduled to fly to Brazil, the car was involved in a minor accident and had to be sent for repairs. It should be ready sometime this week. So we haven't had a car. Fortunately we were loaned another car just last night, so we got to drive to church today. Then there's the phone. Brazil has only one phone company, and despite several calls to this company to establish phone service, none have been answered. So we don't have a phone and we might not have phone service for a while yet. Finally, there's our internet connection. Here in the metropolis of Sao Paulo, high speed internet is common. And, it seems we should be able to get a high speed connection faster than we can get a dial tone at the house, except for one small problem -- we can't get our computer to work. It appears to be functioning, but we've been having difficulty loading the Windows software on it so that we can load programs on it. It's all been rather frustrating, but God knows all about it and I'm sure this is just another test to see if we'll rest secure in His love, or fret and fume about that which we can't control.

This means that as soon as we can get our pictures off our camera and onto either our home computer or this work computer, we'll share all about our first several days in Brazil. We can't wait to show you what we're involved with here, but to tell about it without the pictures just wouldn't do. We are working on it. Please pray that we'll get everything up and running soon. This could be a breakthrough week.