Blanco Family Notes: June 2016

We are about a month away from our departure to Mozambique. We are very excited and feel very blessed for the privilege to travel to another part of the world as a family!

Camilo and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary on July 22 and we thought a big trip to celebrate would be perfect and why not start exploring different cultures thinking and praying about where God may want us serving someday?

We praise God that we now have our passports in hand with visas, and we have our itinerary pretty much set with places to stay and families we will be visiting.

We value your prayers for the following:

For preparation-

materially, for what to pack, not to forget anything especially for the kids
Physically, for good health before, during and after the trip, this week we have appointments for getting malaria meds and vaccines
Spiritually, that God would speak to our hearts on our desire to live abroad again one day wherever in the world that might be.

For our travel-

Safety and protection
For the kids that they would enjoy the adventure and find ways to be comfortable on such long flights.
That all connections would be smooth
That luggage would not get lost

For our time there-

Blessing over our visit with the Bulandes, Dollars, Overtons and with Rocio Silva's after school program
That our kids would be able to discover things about the culture that they appreciate
That the kids would be able to adapt to the different food
That the kids would bond well with the missionary kids we will be staying with

I feel that this is a long list of requests, we just want this time to glorify God!

As we prepare we are working on phrases in Portuguese and Chiyao.

We depart on July 11, we will only miss two Sundays, this will not be a problem as we have a great team from our church helping us take care of everything!

In a nutshell our route to get there:

LAX-Qatar-Johanesburg-Maputo-Lichinga

On the way home:

Nampula- Johannesburg- Qatar- LAX

Thanks for your prayers and support!