We arrived in Brazzaville today! We had the first test of our patience in Philly when we went to check in and couldn't find Allie's ticket! After a 15 minute freak out a wonderful woman name Maggie found Allie's ticket! Something had gone array with the way the itinerary was loaded into the system. The trip was very smooth other than that! We flew 13 hours to Addis Ababa and then boarded a 4 hour plane ride to Brazzaville. All of our 8 pieces of luggage made it, which we were very worried about. Sophie, the HOPE office secretary picked us up at the airport and took us to our hotel. We have a very nice room and we will stay here until Saturday when we move into a temporary apartment at the SIL complex. Then the next saturday we will move into our permanent apartment there at SIL.
We had a wonderful evening eating with Manny, Marie, and Marielle (their daughter). Manny is the Managing Director of the HOPE office in Brazza. He has been working in microfinance for over 20 years and will be a great mentor technically and spiritually for Nate. Allie, Marie and Marielle already have plans to go shopping together as well as learn how to make our own bread (safe/ clean loaves of bread here are very expensive). Allis is looking forward to spending time with these 2 girls.
We are going to meet the HOPE staff tomorrow morning and begin setting up our life, including: getting cellphones, connecting our computers to SIL's internet, registering at the US embassy.
Thank you to all that were praying for our travel! We were shocked and thankful at how smooth everything went. God has been with us every step of the way. We are blessed to be here and already have met some beautiful people.
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