Farewell Dallas!!!

Hello – We are writing this on the eve that we leave Dallas and begin our trip back to Lesotho. Well, at least we are almost on our way back to Lesotho. We will be traveling to Arizona for the next several weeks and will be departing for Lesotho on May 15^th. This last week has kept us very busy.

On Easter we were spending the afternoon with some friends. Evi was having a great time eating some cake and a chocolate chip and walnut cookie. The trouble started about an hour later when she started to feel a little sick. We left and in the car on the way home, Evi started to experience some major wheezing and breathing trouble. We assumed it was asthma because of some previous problems. We hurried home and gave her a puff on her inhaler and were able to get her breathing under control. Shortly after that she began to itch, and it got worse and worse as the time went on. We took her shirt off and noticed that she was almost completely covered in a rash of some sort. We then made a trip to the emergency room and spent 3 hours on Easter at the hospital. After a shot of Benedryl and some steroids, she started to feel much better. Yesterday we took Evi to the doctor and she was tested for allergies. We learned that Evi is allergic to walnuts, pecans, pistachios and hazelnuts. We are very thankful that we were able to determine what she was allergic to and that her reaction on Sunday wasn’t even worse.

The rest of the week has been stressful and busy as well. On Monday I awoke to write all of you an e-mail. I turned on the computer and all I got was an error message. After a couple days of troubleshooting and the advice of others, I was able to locate the culprit and was able to replace the broken parts. Then I had to reinstall everything on my computer. We have spent much time saying farewell to new friends, packing our bags, and numerous other things. This morning we also got word that our cat in Lesotho got run over by a car. Leslie and Evi were very much looking forward to returning to Lesotho and seeing our cats again, so they were of course saddened by the news that Calico had died.

We look forward to visiting with all of you while we are in Flagstaff and are planning on a farewell get together on May12th, the Saturday before we leave. We’ll pass along details about time, location and other info once we get it all planned..

Please continue to pray for us this next month.

1. Evi’s leg still has some wounds and needs some additional healing.
2. Travel from Dallas to Phoenix on Saturday
3. Plans as we prepare to return to Lesotho
4. Finances to cover our return airfare to Lesotho (let me know if you have any questions about how to help us raise money for our airfare back to Africa)
   

We once again are reminded about how God has blessed us with a group of people committed to praying for us. As we prepare to leave Dallas I am thankful for the abundance of prayer on our behalf.