Visa Drama

Well, we are scheduled to fly out to PNG in four days and our visas are no where in sight! Josh sent our visa request to PNG at the beginning of December- that was well over 2 months ago! Someone from Kudjip hospital has made many trips down to the PNG visa office, but has received no word on the status of our visas. Josh has also been inquiring by calling the PNG embassy in Washington, D.C., but yet again no word on the visas. Arrgghhh... how frustrating!

Like I said, we leave are supposed to fly out in four days so we need these visas fast! Please pray that the visas come through in the next few days and that we can fly out on Fri as planned. A delay in our visas means that we have to delay our trip by at least a week and pay a ton of money in fees.

Thanks to those who are praying for us. We love you and we are thankful that God is in control!

Tornados

Today was the first time in Memphis that I actually crawled into a closet. Sarah and I turned on the news tonight as there were supposed to be some pretty wicked storms coming our way. They actually let all the kids out of school early and there were a bunch of people cancelling all the sporting events and such tonight for these storms. As we were watching tv all the red/purple/blue areas started to light up on the weather man's screen we soon realized, "crap, this is comming right at us". Then to further force us into the cave, they have a camera on top of this hotel in Memphis that had an actual tornado barrelling through a place not too far from our house, we figured our parents would want us to live, so we cleaned out a closet and went inside with the dogs. We didn't end up staying in there too long as the newscast soon showed that it was moving east of us, but it was a pretty close call for us.