8 and 9 December 2017                                     Departing for the Mission Field

We didn't get much sleep last night (1 hour) due to last minute packing, weighing, un-packing, weighing, etc.
It's an interesting exercise to try and get 2 years worth of living into 2 bags (50 pound limit each) and one carry-on. You ought to try it sometime. In the end, we arrived with 4 large suitcases, 2 carry-ons, personal bag and our CPAP machines.
We ran into Elder and Sister Boyer (Johannesburg) at the airport along with Sister Jensen (Durbin) where we were all to take different flights to Atlanta and leave on the same 18 hour flight to Johannesburg.
Well guess what, it snowed in Atlanta (?). Yup.
Which messed up everything.

We went to Minneapolis and were diverted to Paris to catch a direct flight to Capetown, no more Johannesburg stop.
We left for the airport at 5 AM on Friday and arrived in Capetown at 11 PM on Saturday. Talk about being exhausted. Thankfully our luggage all made it!!!
On the leg from Paris to Johannesburg I watched a movie that had me in tears, it wasn't from being so worn out but it was such a wonderful and powerful message about our relationship to God, Christ, and the Holy Ghost with a special emphasis on forgiveness and judging. If you get a chance to see it I highly recommend it. It is titled: The Shack.

We understand Sister Jensen's flight was canceled completely and was scheduled to leave on the 11th.
We still don't know what happened to the Boyer's.

The Hansen's met us at the airport and took us to our new 'flat' (their old flat) where they gave  us a quick tour and said good-night. We made it to bed around 1 AM.

Oh and by the way, it snowed in Paris too.
Snow in Paris

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