Dan

Let's forget that the Physician's Assistant said, "You'll be in and out of here in 20 minutes each time you have a radiation treatment." In theory that is the way it is supposed to be. Friday, Dan was there an hour. Dan's sarcoma was in a difficult place to reach with x-ray. The technicians need extra time to position Dan's leg just right so that his femur bone does not get any radiation. We are thankful that they are taking good care of Dan.

Dan is still feeling well. We have both long lists of what has to be done if we are going to leave this house never to return, and become full time missionaries. Today we signed a contract with the Estate Sale lady, Mary. We checked on shipping rates from here to Arizona where the Romanian shipping company is. Dan and I are both seriously cleaning out files, cabinets, making the 2nd decision about what is to be thrown away, what is to go with us, what is to be in the Estate Sale.

Today I made reservations for our Fall Mission trip to St. George. Since we need tickets that can be upgraded to Business Class using air miles, they have to be bought months before we need them. It takes quite a long time on the phone. But it is done now. We will soon be asking our friends to help us pay for the tickets and help provide a Working Fund. We are very grateful that God has blessed us with some friends and family who support our work every month. No matter where we are, they understand that we are busy about the Master's business each day.

I still have to discover if the State Department really did cancel my passport. They had a mixup and cancelled my passport last October. Dan straightened it out. But the Passport Department never did send us a letter saying my passport is reinstated.

The one thing that is on the list every Monday through Friday is that Dan has a radiation appointment at 9:45 a.m. until May 9. We arrange everything else around taking care of Dan. This has been a good day with many important things taken care of.

But, there is unrest in my heart today...like Johan Bojer, wrote in "The Immigrants," -- "If you came back, you wanted to leave again. If you went away, you longed to come back. Wherever you were, you could hear the call of the homeland, like the note of a herdsman's horn far away in the hills. You had one home out there and one over here, and yet you were an alien in both places. Your true abiding place was the vision of something very far off, and your soul like the waves, always restless and forever in motion." Dan and I feel more and more, "Like Abraham, we are looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God." Hebrews 11:20 -- Anne and Dan