It’s been HECTIC! By the numbers:

• Hurried packing and preparation for 5 travelers
• Tickets bumped 3 times
• 3 covid tests to leave the country, eventually down to 1
• 125 hours of total travel time (with 72 hours in the capital city)
• 32 hours of actual flight time
• Testing negative with 10 minutes to spare
• In Singapore, led in 1 single-file line like in kindergarten
• Our last 45-minute flight took a 5-hour detour
• Arriving finally at 3am
• Vaccine shot number 1
• 14 1/2 hour day getting Kiera to the doctor and MRI
• Trip to Ohio to get our donated car – a 2004 Honda Pilot
• Church visit #1 – Patterson Park Church in Beavercreek, Ohio
• Family vaca for 6 days up north in Michigan
• Church visit #2 – Trinity Fellowship in Big Rapids, Michigan
• 2-day trip out to Maine – surprising Stacy’s family!
• Vaccine shot number 2
• Church visit #3 – Eliot Baptist Church in Eliot, Maine
• 3 trips to the campground with grandparents
• Supply buying for another 2 years in PNG
• Buying 3 tickets back to PNG for Stacy and the girls (Aaron to stay for another 45 days to get Kobe settled at Bible School)
• Visiting with family in Maine for 15 days
• 3 more covid tests
• Last-minute packing and weighing 6 checked bags
• Hassled at the airport – no transit through Singapore? Answered prayer to get on the first 12 1/2 hour flight
• Church visit #4 – First Baptist Church in North Berwick, Maine
• Keeping up with the Business Office in PNG – 1,044 emails read or responded to, with 39 to go (with lots of help from my team in PNG!)
• Buying 1 ticket for Aaron to return to PNG late August
• 1 great visit in Kittery Point, Maine

We wish we had more than 24 hours a day to visit with all of you!
Thank you all for your prayers and support!

– Aaron and Stacy Jex