A time of waiting

Today, we're going to get our home "looking like a show home". After two months of having the house on the market, the children know their show-home-jobs well. Hopefully it will even be dry enough to mow the grass, today! We have an open house coming up. We are so very hopeful that our house will sell this weekend. It is stressful, watching our departure date looming (some time the week of August 22nd) and not being able to pack up and finalize things here. We keep praying and trusting and waiting.

We have been very, very blessed and encouraged in our initial fundraising efforts. In the last month, family and friends have donated 25% of the funds we need to have into One Mission Society, in order to go to Ecuador. Its so encouraging to be approached by people wanting to be involved in our volunteer efforts in Ecuador. It is very exciting, talking with the missionary family who are already working at Camp Pallatanga. We are eager to get down to South America and be put to work!

This week, our two dogs went to their year-long homes. Our house is strangely emptier, without Dante and Tipper wagging around.

We've begun to haul things to our storage container. We're doing it a bit backward, putting in little things first, but we're grateful to have a container to put most everything into!

Don is currently working on a Spanish course through Athabasca University. Don and I spoke conversational Spanish 13 years ago. We love the intonation and cadence of the language. We'll do most of our language training in San Jose Costa Rica, from September 4th to October 14th, before heading onto South America. We can't wait to get underway!

Thank you for your prayers!!!

Dante and Tipper