It's been a surreal weekend.
Woke up Saturday morning, breakfast food was covered in ants, and a huge skunk sprayed our house. In the midst of packing we were cleaning the house for company and cleaning the AIR of skunk. Company wasn't able to make it, so we had bbq'd steak and potatoes just the four of us. It started weird but ended good.
Sunday, we gear up to go to church, I dressed a bit shabby in jeans knowing I was going to help a friend move today.
Found that the rain had sunk the drive in down and our car was completely stuck. After about 40 minutes of trying to get unstuck, called AAA.
I also wrote our pastor and said 'sorry we didn't make it'
he replied 'I was going to introduce you this morning as missionaries'
I thought 'does he know how close we were to going to church covered in mud? I actually thought 'I'm not changing, we can be a bit late no one will notice mud covered jeans.'
PHEW.. dodged that bullet.. 'Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Chad and Kendal, Chad's the one covered in mud as um... a symbol of life in PNG yeah, that's the ticket.'
Three things we're thankful to God for:
1 - the car we bought had a tow hitch, almost totally useless except we got towed out SUPER fast
2 - for giving me the foresite to purchase a AAA membership even though until today we hadn't needed it...
3 - for the fact that with all this weirdness, we weren't bothered in the slightest. Not with company canceling, the skunk or with being towed. I dunno why, but for some reason all this weird stuff that might upset and stress people out,... didn't even phase us.
It's been a great and restful weekend, in an odd missionary kind of way.
Last night for dinner, we put on a virtual fireplace on the computer, looped it, and played some christmas music.. so it was fun.
