Yesterday in a Canadian Supercentre we saw children’s’ winter boots for sale. That made Michelle and I pause and look at each other, both thinking the same thing: We did not expect to be in Canada in Sept/Oct! We actually began leaving way back in June when we went to Texas to visit Michelle’s family. That visit was even cut short a little bit so that we could visit my bro-in-law in North Vancouver in order to be back in Ontario for Aug so that we could be ready to apply for the visas. Then the Great Wait began.

We do keep hearing from one school official who, as far as his emails communicate, is still expecting us any day. But it is the other school official upon whom we wait. Please keep praying that whatever the hold-up is will be cleared up. To be honest we wonder if the number of all our years has finally caught up to us, and some official somewhere said, “Hey, this guy came here in 1997. This lady came here in 1999. No more visas for them!”

But EVEN if that is the case, God can move this mountain. We know there are more people who need to hear, more places that still haven’t heard. So keep praying.

On a different note, we cancelled our plane tickets since the prospect of guessing a wrong departure date seemed too likely. The airline, Hainan Air, has been very helpful throughout, despite horrendous reviews I’ve found online about them. We’ve flown Hainan Air several times and always had a good experience. Well, in this case the refund they gave us is almost 3/4 of what we’ve already paid. My worse-case expectation was that we would only get back 1/4 of what we paid.