HOULETTE HAPPENINGS Greetings from Wenham, Massachusetts! We arrived here on Tuesday, and we are settling in fine. It was been a wild two weeks. God provided very abundantly for us. We finished packing and cleaning our town house 8/1, and moved into Matsukawa Place that same day and stayed through the weekend at our mission guest room. We had a wonderful farewell party at Denen Grace Chapel 8/3, and were ready to leave Monday afternoon after having lunch with a new mid-term missionary. Thirty minutes prior to our departure, our travel agent called to say that our flight had been delayed till the next morning. We were to go to the airport, check in, then get hotel vouchers and meal coupons for the night. So, we had another day of relaxation at a very nice hotel near Narita airport. We flew out at 8 am, an unheard of time for leaving for the U.S, but this got us into Chicago at 5 am so we got through immigration, rechecked our bags and got to the gate for our flight to Boston in less than one hour. Did I mention that due to the inconvenience, bag weight limits were increased 9 kilograms, eliminating an overweight issue we had with one of the bags. Wow, God made it very clear that he was leading us. We could not have made a more perfect list of needs than what He provided. We have plunged into things here. We are in a very ample two bedroom apartment, and John has started his assistant dorm director training. This will go on for the next two weeks, and students start arriving 8/24, I believe. Please pray for Jasmine. She has not yet found full time work. She is doing various part time work in the meantime. Also, pray for wisdom in buying a car. We are beginning to plan our church visits and our publicity information. Please note our new email and phone information. You can reach us at our current email addresses, but when we write to you, it will have the Gordon email address. Please contact us, and let us know how you are doing!