We have arrived. We got into Hoskins yesterday after 41 hours of traveling almost 11,000 miles. Everything went smoothly – we are only missing one piece of luggage – Michelle’s suitcase is somewhere – but they think they will be able to find it. We met with the conference committee last night and it was a great meeting. We got to put names and faces together for the first time. These are a wonderful group of people. As I write it is 6:30 on Tuesday morning and everyone is having breakfast. Everyone got a great night’s sleep. The first night is usually the roughest and everyone slept really well. After breakfast we are getting busy helping them get set up for the conference. It looks like we will be able to update each day we are at the conference, so we will keep you current with the how the conference is going.

We have watched the hand of God in each step of this trip. We saw God take care of each the flights and we made every single flight without any problems. Everyone here says hi and we do covet your prayers.

Jared wants his mom to know he’s Okay and I did see him do some homework on the plane. Cheryl is doing fine and yes she still loves you. John & Michelle want everyone to know they made it, but her luggage didn’t. They are doing fine. Chuck & Gloria smell like pepper since a container exploded in their suitcase, but they are doing well. The committee gives Chad the sympathy vote since he left his wife and son on their birthday. Jimmy is doing fine, he just wants larger earplugs. We will update you tomorrow.

From Hoskins,

The group