We are all well and doing our best to get the house to a livable stage as well as doing what we can to build relationships and share the love of Christ. Since the last newsletter we have had to make more than one trip out for materials. We are currently in Vanimo to purchase house materials and last evening we, with much excitement, met Peter and Ruth Oli at the airport!
It will be such a boost to have them with us as such a major part of our team. We tried one week previous to come to Vanimo but after a couple of hours going up the river to the end of the road where we keep the vehicle, we got loaded up and started the landcruiser only to find that when I let the clutch out, nothing happened.
I played with the 4wd shift lever and nothing made any difference. So we headed back down river to Tipas. The road was in such bad condition anyway that even the Landcruisers were having a time getting through. I contacted Philip in Vanimo and he arranged for a mechanic to come out a week later.
So Monday this week we were up and loaded by 5am to head up river again. Philip and the mechanic, Elder Gabriel Lazarus along with some boys of his that are trained mechanics were supposed to travel early and come out by 8am.
We arrived at Mahane at or so but they had not arrived yet. We had no way to contact anyone from Mahane unless we took the boat across the Sepik River and climbed up a hill to a place where, if lucky, you could make a connection. I finally decided at 1pm to make that trip and try to call. It turns out that I caught them just before they got out of network coverage and was able to find out that they had experienced car trouble and had to go back to fix the car before they could come out so they were just 1 hour into the journey to Mahane and would not arrive till closer to 5pm.
