Transition in Botswana
Part of the beauty of our calling is the love engendered in our hearts for our missionaries, seniors and juniors alike. These four senior missionaries celebrated January birthdays together. We continue to hemorrhage missionaries as our VISA concerns persist. It seems the Botswana government is in no hurry to resolve the problem, so the time continues to click away with all of us having an expiration date on our foreheads. We just keep sending them out, some to go home after their 2-yr commitment, some to reassignments elsewhere in the world. It rips my heart out each time someone leaves. It's also quite unsettling for everyone left, somewhat like having a guillotine above our heads. Our expiration date is 9 March after which we hope to find safe haven in Namibia. Tomorrow we will send away 5 young African sisters to their reassigned missions in Zambia. It just tears me up. Miraculously, we did receive our first new missionaries in 3 months...