USA till next February, we packed up our things in Uganda to be stored and then shipped to Lesotho in January. We are blessed to have the opportunity to ship a 20 foot shipping container to Lesotho. We've had help from friends and family. It began with packing some things in boxes, others with padding, and then thinking it over like a big puzzle.After packing a bunch of heavy items, our friend Ralph came over and helped me build a frame and box to enclose them and to pack on top of. Adam tested out our work by sitting on the couch on top of the box.
We've packed from bottom to top to utilize the space well. Part of it has been roped off and part was enclosed by a partial wall. In front of that sits the washer, dryer and stove. We enclosed them in another wooden structure in order to have a place to pack recliners. Mattresses and other flat lighter things went up on top. It was a lot of trying different things to see what fits best. After months of planning and two solid weeks of packing, it is DONE! We sealed the doors, put on the locks, and now it sits in Mbarara, awaiting the truck. From Mbarara it will travel
over some pretty rough pot hole filled roads to Kamapala to sit at our mission compound until January. Then it goes back on a truck to Mombasa, Kenya, by ship to Durbin, South Africa, and again by truck to Maseru, Lesotho (roughly 4 week trip).We trust God that some day in February we will see our container with our personal and household things and have the fun of unpacking. By the way, some have asked us if we know where we will live in Lesotho and the answer is in Maseru, the capital city, but we don't know yet the house. We'll post something once we know (most likely later this year).
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