One Week and Counting

[O Donesky]

Dear Friends and Family,

 

I am excited to report that we will be landing in Lima seven days from right now.  Last Friday was my last day at McKee.  I will miss both my friends and the work I have enjoyed so much, but I know that following God into the unknown of this move to Peru is the right decision for my family and I.  

 

We have found a family to rent/house sit for us.  They are interested in using the house for a year or two which seems to fit nicely into our needs for right now. It will be fun to look back at the whole house saga in five years and see how it has worked out.

 

With the future of the house settled, we are into full speed packing.  Odil actually packed a lot of the excess books and stuff back last spring so we are not really in very bad shape.

 

Last week I was blessed by a local businessman who agreed to let me rent his Lake Renegade airplane.  See, unlike Cessna's, there is not a Lake Renegade at every airport in the country.  In fact, they are quite few and far between.  I had done all of my sea plane training to date in the smaller Lake Buccaneer and wanted to get some experience in the larger Renegade before I got to Peru.  What a blessing it was to spend half a day last Thursday with Luke Smith flying up and down the Tennessee River in Peter Serodino's Renegade.  Thank you gentlemen for helping  me round out my training for Peru.  And for those of you who have not tried it, yes, flying a sea plane is really fun, really really fun.  

 

I have opened up access to the Google Group where these messages are stored so anyone can look at them.  If someone would like to be added to our update list just send me a name and email address and we will be happy to add them so they can get the updates when they first come out.

 

One of my favor hymns goes, "I don't know about tomorrow,  I just live from day to day.  But I know who holds the future."  Right now we are not sure what the future holds but stay tuned, He is leading and still in control.

 

Busy Packing,

 

Orville, Odil and Kids