Underhills are Here!

On Friday night I had the joy of meeting the Underhill family (minus two family members) at the airport in Pontianak. They had been traveling for a long time, so were very tired. We got them loaded in the car, gave them some snacks and then quickly found them a shower and bed.

After a night of sleep though it was time to do a whole lot of shopping for household things because no one had lived in the house in awhile. My favorite moment of that day though was when we went to the cargo section of the airport to pick up their luggage. I had never been there before, so that in itself made it an adventure. Once there it took us awhile to figure out where to go etc and then we were faced with the fact that we didn't want to pay for them to keep the luggage until Monday but we really didn't have the truck needed to pick up all almost 600 pounds. We did however have a van and decided that it was worth a try to get all 16 bags (large duffles and crates) inside. The guys in the cargo area all seemed rather amused with our plan and our driver thought we could only fit 5-6 bags in total. Imagine his surprise when we got 5 bags just in the back. While it was crowded, in the end we managed to fit 700 pounds of luggage plus much of the food and household supplies we had purchased in the van. While there was no applause at the end from our audience you could tell they were impressed :)

The van was then sent on ahead of us to Serukam. We followed on Monday after some more shopping and resting. Hopefully in a coming blog post I can introduce you to the Underhill family. In the meantime please be praying for Brian, Holly, Hattie, Isaac, Eli and Annie as they make this big transition. Please be praying especially for the kids, as they work on re-learning Indonesian and making friends.