In The Beginning

The date to leave was set, 19th January 2010. We were determined. We just had to sell our cars, get a new car that could tow our pop-top camper, and pay off our camper with the money from our cars. So a week before we left non of that was done, but we were trusting God that He would come through. If this was really what God had called us to do then it would happen.

I was madly trying to finish my course, and Matt was running around getting everything else ready. He was starting to get pretty stressed about the whole car situation. Obviously we needed a car before we left. That was currently the only thing truly standing in the way of us leaving on time. All the money we had went into Matt's CD, so we didn't have much. There was always talk of a check coming out of nowhere from someone, but I really didn't think it would happen that way. However, at Christmas a couple in our Church had very generously given us $3,000. We were going to use this for our car, but we needed a little more; cars powerful enough to tow are generally a bit more than that. Time was running out, so we decided to see what we could get for that price. And wouldn't you know it, Matt found a 97 Ford Falcon for $3,500. It was just put on that night, so we went to see it the next day. We were pretty sure it would do the job (I know "pretty sure" isn't really what you want, but at that point we only had a few days). So we put a deposit on it. Later we found out that Ford Falcons are the best thing after a 4-wheel drive for towing. How's that! A few things still had to be fixed up on it, so the guy said we'd get it either Monday or Tuesday (Tuesday was the day we were leaving).

Monday 18th: We really wanted to pay off our camper before we left, but we had to sell the cars. Although it wasn't such a stress now that we had a car. A Christian couple who wanted to be missionaries came and looked at Matt's car. They were pretty keen, and we thought they were great. They were waiting for a check to clear and would let us know by tomorrow. We got our car that day (day before we left). Things were looking good.

Tuesday 19th: We got a call in the morning; the car was sold! That day we packed up everything we had a drove off on our journey. It was last minute, but God does that.