Road to Indonesia--China Boxes

 We got our 3 big boxes shipped DHL from China today!!! It took only a week, seems pretty miraculous.  We had to pay customs, which seems strange since it is just our own used things, but we are just thankful to have more than my 5 dresses,  and also Rick's Bibles, and our important papers!  The only paper that is missing for the longer term visas, is Rick's birth certificate. (Georgia Kay , we are going to be hitting you up to get it for us.)  There are a few other things that are time sensitive like a police check and a physical, but we just need to work our way through those steps.   All of this is just wonderful news.

It was a little confusing to get the boxes from the DHL office to us. We got notification that DHL had paid the customs duty for us so the boxes could be shipped from Jakarta to Papua.  If our credit cards would have worked here, they would have delivered it directly to our door, but alas, no such luck.  After we tracked it to Sentani, though it was a little awkard to get someone to take us to the DHL office, help translate to pay the duties, etc.  If the director had not had covid, we just would have piled in his car and gone, but he is still housebound (although maybe out tomorrow).  If we had been under a mission, rather than direct hire by the school, fellow mission personnel would have been responsible for us.  But alas, no one is much responsible for us here. We are free lancing it.   Finally, someone took us to the school worker (almost deaf by the way) who picks up the mail every day.  The mail box is close to the DHL office so he had no problem taking our money and just retrieving the packages for us.  (No ID necessary, just a handful of cash.)  So here we sit happy campers tonight. Thank you, Jesus.