Safe Arrival

We arrived without incident. 


We have tried to add pictures to this blog but without success so far.  What follows is the outline of the blog:

1.     Salt Lake to Atlanta = the two last seats in the back of the plane next to the rest room

2.     Atlanta to Johannesburg = 16 hours/ 8500 miles = the two last seats in the back of the plane next to the rest room

3.     Two hotel reservations in Johannesburg (we chose the one with the nice restaurant)

4.     Johannesburg to Lubumbashi with a flight of businessman = in the middle of the plane.

5.     Met at the airport and ushered through customs = our bags made it all the way without a surcharge and without a bribe.   

We won’t have internet in our apartment until the new mission home moves in on April 1^st, but we will be able to use the old mission home’s internet. 

We will be safe here.  The people are all very friendly.  We have a nice place to live: President Packer says ours is the nicest missionary apartment in Africa.