Trip to Forest for Timbers

A day with a lot of small details that held us up, this is how a day goes in Mzuzu. We left the house at 7am to go to the forest to get timbers for main building at HESED House Village.

1^st small detail we had to get gas but we had no money. Waited for the bank to open at 8 and went and cashed a check for Samuel and filled out paper work for my money gram from Faith Chapel. I had to leave my passport and they said I could come back at 9am.
8:30 We left to go wait for Florence to bring Samuel his cell phone then left to get gas. There wasn’t any gas so Samuel decided to make the 1^st of 3 trips he had planned for the day to get the timbers. He was going to find gas on the return trip.
9:00 We arrived at forest, maybe 20 miles out of town. Samuel paid for the 300 timbers we need but found out we would need to go deep into the woods so we had to return to Mzuzu to find gas. Samuel had left the gas money with Florence so she could purchase it ahead of us and we could just go get it. That didn’t work. We found gas but had to wait for Florence to meet us with the other work truck and the money.
10:00 Then we went to bank again to get more money for Florence and to pick up my money gram that should have been ready, it wasn’t and it took us an hour to get it. Thank you Faith Chapel for your donations.
11:00 Head back to forest but encountered a speed trap and had to pay 3000MWK, that’s only about $12.00. We got back to forest and found some men had already started cutting timbers for us but they were the wrong ones. We needed bigger and stronger wood. We had to take the workers further, much further down the road and then very, very deep into the forest. I think we drove over 2 mountains to get back to where the gum wood was. We were traveling on a dirt road all the way winding up and down the mountains. After that ride in I was laughing about the U-Haul truck ride I had once to California that I thought was rough ride. I can’t begin to tell you how difficult that ride was for the truck. It stalled about 4 times on the way in and I had to get out so they could lift the cab and spray started fluid in engine.
12 noon they started cutting timbers we had 4 workers with us. By 4:00 we had to leave because it would be dark in an hour and we needed an hour to back out to the main road. On the way out we were held up by a truck with a flat tire and no way to drive around him.
5:30 we made it to the orphanage with the timbers and unloaded them. We had 67 timbers. We will need to make at least 2 more trips back into the forest tomorrow.

Small details is our slogan here everything is just small details, God is in control.