It won't be very exciting to read our posts until we arrive in Africa I suppose, but we need some practice at this blogging thing, so you might get some "getting ready for the mission" posts until then. We just found out that after already getting 5 shots, that we still need a diphtheria, yellow fever and a polio booster, since the sugar cubes given back in the 50's are no longer in our system. We were going to get them locally, but after checking with the MTC immunization department, we will wait and get these 3 shots at the MTC for $200 less than here at our local Reading Hospital travel center where we got the first 5.
We also just completed the finger printing at our local State police barracks required for a complete FBI background check which the Republic of South Africa requires to issue our VISA (not a credit card...the papers necessary for us to stay in country 25 months or less). The whole process seems long, detailed and rather expensive, but we are sure that in the end it will all be worth it. The more we learn about the seven countries we will be working in and the program we will be working for, the more thrilled we are to be blessed with this assignment.
More to come I'm sure.