The Salamans have arrived at our new home in Tanzania. After a frantic time of tieing up loose ends back home - getting the house ready for renting, packing and saying goodbyes we started our Journey by driving to Heathrow from St Austell. There then followed a nine hour flight and then another 7 hour car journey in Tanzania before we arrived at our final destination. Needless to say that the travelling was very tiring and took its toll on all of us such that our first evening in Tanzania was a fairly low point with Daniel becoming ill and refusing to take his Larium and arriving at a house that was as we expected fairly spartanly furnished. By bedtime with the help of our now good friend Mbarikiwa we managed to all have something to sleep on and I managed to hang all the mosquito nets.
Once the boys were finally asleep and we had collapsed on the few chairs in the house we could easily have started to question our calling. However as we started to upack we looked through some of the cards that we'd been given in the last week (now on our wall see below)and the messages within them together with Bible verses texted to us restored our faith in God's provision and helped us carry on.
Things have improved since then - Daniel is still poorly but on the mend, our house is becoming more like a home but still lacks some essentials and we have started some god relationships with staff and neighbours here. Within the next few weeks we hope to have more furniture, a new mobile number (watch this space), our freight arriving and even a new car
Please continue to pray for:
- A tenant for our house back home
- Daniel's health
- That our home can become a place of comfort, security and hospitality
- That we keep good relations with all
With much love and thanks for your prayers and support,
Paul, Christine, Daniel & Isaac
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