The Container is Loaded !!

After days of late night packing, shrink wrapping and preparation, the morning finally came to load our shipping container for Chile.

It would have to fall on one of the coldest mornings of Dec...it was -10 degrees! To make things even more interesting, the driver was delayed by an hour and a half due to equipment problems. We all waited in our running cars until he arrived.

Our 20 ft shipping container arrived around 10:30 am. We were given two hours to load the whole thing.

Above: Mike and my dad were in the "inside the container" men. Their job was to take the items and "put together" the puzzle.

John Ball and I loading a dresser.

Throughout the process, I needed to think two steps ahead of the group in order to give appropriate items at appropriate times.

We didn't know exactly how much room we would have towards the end of the container. We had a rough idea, but there were some worries that everything might not fit...but at the halfway point, it was evident that we would have plenty of room for all of our stuff.

Above: The group shot of all who helped. (From L to R: Ken, Jan, Simeon, David, John, Mike, Jeremiah, Cary, Ethan, & John) Kristi took the picture.

A big thank you to all who helped with the loading of the container. We could not have done it in one hour without each one. Praise the Lord! One more major project completed in the continuing process of our family moving to Chile.

Next on the schedule is our commissioning service on Saturday, Jan. 3rd. Hope you can be there! We will post pictures of the service for those who can't come.