Minor Setback...

Wow the last 2 days have been insane! Our 40 foot container arrived in Lusaka, so we got the call on Monday and the trucker said he would drive it out to Mapanza for us! He got about an hour away when Blu called him and asked if he had a way to get the container off the truck. He responded, "This isn't your container. You didn't buy this container. My instructions are to take everything out of the container and take the container back to Tanzania."

We spent the next 2 hours emailing back and forth our shipping company in the USA, the customs in Tanzania, and the clearing agency in Zambia. As it turned out, there was a MAJOR miscommunication and the container was in fact, not ours.

Hmm....a 40 foot container an hour away that we have 24 hours to unload...things were not looking good! To make a long story and very stressful evening short, we unloaded the container into our front yard in Choma. We had 24 hours to do it but we did it in 5 because the drivers wanted to return to Tanzania as soon as possible. So we started at 7:30pm and finished at 1:30am...we were exhausted!

We have now put our personal items into the house and still have the orphanage items in the front yard! We are in the process of purchasing a container from Lusaka that will hopefully be here in the next few days so we can get these things out to Mapanza. Please pray that it doesn't rain!!

Situations like this are very stressful, and it's easy to get angry. However, strangely enough, I had the most overwhelming sense of peace yesterday. I realize that God has a reason that our container had to be unloaded in my front yard. :) And, in reality, it's hard to look around at a container full of donated items that safely made it to Zambia and be frustrated. God is still good!
The mower was one of the harder items to get off!

Paw was tired!

This is what my front yard looks like..



Almost done!