Monday, December 15, 2008

leaving South Africa

Thank you each and every one who has been praying for this past 10 days!

The Doctor visits were very profitable, Katey has been diagnosed with a vitamin B deficiency, and I needed the immune system booster (not her!)  Also,  I got my teeth fixed for a whole lot less than the costs of the same procedures in America.  Katey delivered her paper on "code switching", ask her if you need to know more!

And we had three miracles back to back in the Cape Town airport early this morning, then an extra one thrown in just in case I was not paying attention!  I will elaborate if you need it, but it will probably be the subject of our next prayer letter!

At this moment I am sitting near a plug place, charging my computer after a "real" lunch (airPORT restaurant food, not airPLANE food!)  I need to stay awake until I board the plane to Ghana, only three more hours to go and then I have only 24 hours after that until  I am back home in Jui!

I know North America is very cold right now, so if you want to warm up come visit us in Jui! It is always hot there and now that we have the container we have things for caring for visitors! Randy has had some kind of vehicle break-down, so prayers for him and the Toyota would be in order!  All of your prayers are so appreciated and vital to our work here!  Thank you, and have the most blessed Christmas of your life!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

all sorts of good news

The container arrived twelve weeks after we did, and I left the same day they began to unload!  I spent most of yesterday on airplanes and in airports going from Freetown to Accra, Ghana, then on to Johannesburg and finally to Cape Town, South Africa.  Katey is here for the week, she has a paper to present at a linguistics conference next week.  I have Doctor's appointments for next week, and we have the time together. It is worth 42 hours of travel to see my Katey girl!

Meantime, Randy is working on the tractor, there is a slight problem, but he will work it out (farm boys do!)  I still have trouble sending the e-mails from my rfennig.com account out, I can get them in, but they do not send.

But for the next week I am connected to the outside world in a new and wonderful way! Thank you for your prayers.