Trial Run

We did a trial run on packing the Jeep up today. It was good - better than I expected, even. Between the cargo area in the back and our car-top carrier, we have plenty of room for each of us to take a duffel bag and a Space Bag (medium for the girls, large for Mark and for me).

Funny how in this process that has come to sound like a perfectly ample amount of packing space to move to a foreign nation. Just goes to prove God really can change hearts and minds.

Besides those things, we also made sure there was room for 2 boxes of Spanish New Testaments, a cooler, a few (very few) household items, and our electronics.

To be honest, the latter takes up a pretty significant precentage of the available space, considering that we have a TV, XBox, and all all of our CDs and DVDs. Deep down, I think we all feel a little conflicted about this. (First-world guilt, you might call it.)

But, after talking with several people who've done mission work, we found out that it's pretty important to have something familiar, something in English, and something a little mindless we can all do together during the transition period when we first get there.  We really debated about whether or not to take these things, but I think we made the right decision.

Plus, now that we know for sure that it's all going to fit, we only have to deal with the occasional twinge of first-world guilt, instead of weeks and weeks of transition trauma. So, yay Jeep and car top carrrier! Thanks for helping us out with that. :)