The Day Before Tomorrow

We leave for Taiwan tomorrow! Yea!!!!! People have been asking all week if I'm nervous or anxious about going, and honestly, I just want get going! I know I am going to miss my family, and that is the only thing that I have the least bit of angst about. But I'm going to cram every bit of mommy time I can into the day....Nathaniel and I are taking Chinese food to the kids at school today, complete with chopsticks (except for Ryan who said a big "NO" to the Chinese food). I am going to have a little Wii session with Dakota, because I didn't figure that it was very cool for Mom to bring lunch and eat with you when you are in middle school :) Tonight I will watch a DVD movie with James and just hanging out. I have mentioned how awesome he is for encouraging me and being supportive of me going on this trip? I just love him!

So you know our traveling schedule tomorrow:

10:55am Plane leaves Houston
1:49pm arrive in St Paul/Minneapolis
3:00pm leave St Paul/Minneapolis
5:30pm on Friday (3:30am on Friday in Houston) arrive in Tokyo, Japan
7:00pm on Friday (5:00 am on Friday in Houston) leave Tokyo, Japan
10:20pm on Friday (9:20am on Friday in Houston) arrive in Taipei, Taiwan

We then get on a bus and travel 2 hours south to the city of Taichung, Taiwan where we will be staying and working.

Our ladies retreat starts on Monday morning (which would be Monday evening here in Houston...Taiwan is 13 hours ahead of Houston) and will go through Thurday. We return on Saturday March 21.

I will try to update you all here with pictures and stories while we are there, but I do not know what kind of internet access I will have. If I don't get to do much while I am there, look for a long post when I get home (I know...just what you all want) :)

Please pray for us....pray for our safety in traveling, but more importantly that God is glorified in what we are doing. Pray for our families. Pray for the ladies in Taiwan. We want to be able to call them sisters! Also, I ask that you pray for another team from our church leaving this evening for Mali, Africa. May God be with them and all they will be doing in the village in Mali!

Thanks to all!