Greetings, and welcome to the last state side post on Samuel's prayer blog! Right now I'm halfway packed, my mouth is numb from having a filling done and I just got back from Wal-Mart, where I bought a portable CD player.

At any rate, I'm not really sure how regular updates are going to be until Feb. 5th. I will be doing English camps on the main island of Taiwan and I'm not sure how much access to the net I will have. So y'all might not get an update until I get to Kinmen on Feb. 5th. Also, I'm not sure what day of the week I'll be posting updates. I've been posting on Fridays so far, because...well, because I created this blog on a Friday and have simply been posting once a week since! But that might change once I arrive in Kinmen. We'll see.

---Send up a great big thank you to God for the support of his saints. So far I've got four karate classes committed to praying for me, a stay at home dad's group in Columbus, Ohio (Tim, you rock!), a large part of our home school group and many friends who don't fit into a pigon hole. :) What an amazing blessing and encouragement to me!

---Pray I don't have any trouble flying to Taiwan. I'll be spending a couple hours at the Tokoyo airport, which will be cool!

---Once I reach the main island, I'll only have to days to figure out what's going on before I have to start teaching English camps. Pray that God gives me clarity of thought and peace of mind.

---Pray for the fam...some of them (ie Anna) are not that thrilled about me leaving.