The humorous aspect about this move is that everyone has a statistic on the number of deadly animals in Australia or an actual list. In case you might be wondering what some of those are, allow me to enlighten you. We could die from the following (just to name a few):
Box Jellyfish
Red back spider
Funnel web spider
Great White Sharks
Blue Ring Octopus
Brown Snake
And some species of killer snails (name unknown) Some of those (Funnel web spiders for example) do not live in Perth. However, given the recent death of the Houston man back in late October, we all know Perth is home to some rather large Great Whites. How in the world does a population of 1.5 million people manage to survive? :-) Very carefully I suppose! Wish us luck! :-)
On a more serious note, our visa is still pending and we got word it will be around 2 more weeks. They are coming to pack the house on the 16th now instead of the 11th. Sam was supposed to start on the 16th, which now looks like will be a week later. We are both officially unemployed right now. We have money screaming out the door and no paychecks coming in this month. We didn't plan for this delay - how could we have known? We thought we had given ourselves enough leeway. Well we didn't - again circumstances beyond our control with delays on the passport for Lindsey, office closures for the holidays and so on.
Beyond our control - something will work out. God provided.
Today Sam was asked to do some consultant work up until we leave and he starts on Monday. Amazing! To each of you who have called, commented or emailed recently to chat or wish us well, thank you for your support and kind words of encouragement. You are a blessing to us. And to those of you lifting our family up in prayer, thank you and keep praying. Again, we are headed to a country that contains 80% of the world's deadliest animals (or so I was told), so we will need those continued prayers. :-)
Faithfully,
Wendy
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