Almost There

I am typing this from our hotel room in Blythe California which is almost on the border of Arizona on Hwy 10. We have been traveling for 4 days now. The kids have been doing well, but we are all tired. Our drive to Mexico began on Monday morning in Coaldale Alberta where it was -15C or so with lots of snow. We headed south and have traveled through Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and now California enjoying the 19C weather! When we pulled into Blythe we saw a dirty pickup and RV ahead of us and I jokingly commented to Sheri and that it looked about as dirty as our vehicle and must be from Alberta. Upon further inspection the license plate indeed confirmed that it was from Alberta!

We are planning on taking a break tomorrow and not traveling at all. Maybe we will take the kids out to a movie and then hot tub here at the hotel later.

A highlight of the trip for Noah was when we traveled on the "Historic Route 66" hwy on which the movie "Cars" is based- (His favorite). The girls have been enjoying the trip as well except for when Jemma got her fingers caught in the electric window when Dad rolled it up...........................no worries, all her fingers are still there............
This really has been quite the fun time for the kids. These are memories they won't soon forget!

So the plan is to head to Tucson on Saturday and then down to Hermosillo on Sunday. We would love to have your prayer support again for this border crossing. By the way, the one into Montana went without a hitch. The border gaurd asked me for my license plate number and because it is new to me, I hesitated when giving him the answer and even though I got it right he still wanted to see my registration. Oh well, we made it through fine.....................without having to open the trailer!
We were going to spend New Years Eve in Las Vegas but couldn't get a hotel room as the whole city was pretty much sold out! Oh well, we went to Mesquite Nevada (an hour north east of Las Vegas) and stayed there instead. The kids loved the tredmills in the exercise room of the hotel we stayed at.........................go figure.

Well that is about it. We are getting more and more excited as we get closer to Mexico. We are truly looking forward to what God is going to do in and through us there in Hermosillo. We have a vision but God is refining it and will continue to do so. There is a song that we have been listening to on the way down here that is new to us. It is called "God of This City" by the Passion Worship Band. The chorus goes, "greater things have yet to come, and greater things are yet to be done in this city". That kind of sums up our anticipation as to what God will do in Hermosillo. We believe He has big plans for the people of this city, and we consider ourselves blessed that we are hopefully going to be a small part of it!

We will update again when we can and also we will post pictures of our trip at www.flickr.com/photos/elliottspics

Blessed to have you behind us, The Elliotts.