Car Parts across the World

Here is a photo of Kevin holding up two of the new springs for our LandCruiser. Some of you people out there who know about cars will be impressed by how huge these things are. For those of you who aren't, I'll just tell you that these are massive springs!! We broke two of our springs last year on two separate trips by hitting deep potholes, and they were welded back together. We've been getting along just fine since then but fearful that any day we were going to hit a big one and feel the thump of a broken spring. Those springs were old when we bought the car, and really needed to be replaced in the beginning. But finally, four months ago we heard about a good price to replace a car suspension that another missionary had gotten in Johannesburg, South Africa. So, we emailed them and ordered the parts, paying by credit card. They were delivered to our regional headquarters there in Joburg and spent a couple of months in our boss's garage before another mozambique missionary picked them up and dropped them four hours south in Nelspruit. There, they were picked up by another mozambique missionary and taken across the border into Maputo, Mozambique and left with a missionary there. Then, we hired a taxi to pick them up and take them to the truck depot of a Christian business where they were put on the truck coming north. They bounced along for 3 days, probably, and arrived out at the business outside of town where a Nampula missionary picked them up for us and brought them to his home. Kevin picked them up there on Sunday night. WOW! We are so thankful that these much-needed parts arrived safe and secure, and will be installed on Saturday. We are making a big car trip at the end of November and feel so much better with a new suspension system. There are 4 new springs, and 4 new shocks. Hooray!! - Cami