I am here!

Hello!

First of all, thank you for all of the prayers up to this point. I am now in Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea, settled into the house. Best I can tell, I start working on Monday.

My trip here was uneventful, which is good. Although a few of my flights left late, the only one that arrived late was the one into Port Moresby, which was my last flight except for the SIL flight out here to Ukarumpa, so that was a good flight to have late, if one was going to be late. I arrived in Port Moresby on Tuesday evening, got through Customs without a problem, and was immediately met by William, who took me over to the M.A.P.A.N.G. guest house, where I spent the night. The next morning, William picked me up, along with a dentist missionary named Dane, who was also headed up to Ukarumpa, and we went to the MAF hangar to wait for our flight up here. We found out that we would be traveling here in the Kodiak (okay, aviation people, please don't ruin your keyboards by drooling on them - the rest of you, if you don't know what I'm talking about, that's fine). The plane ended up being later than we expected getting there, and then it took longer than expected to go get the other two passengers, but eventually we made it up here, landing at 4:30 PM local time on Wednesday. I got my bags, and was met my David and Anne Smith, who showed me around a little bit, took me to drop off my computer so that the required antivirus program could be installed, and brought me up to the house. The owners of this house are currently on furlough, apparently, so it is being rented by Daniel Jezowski, and now me, and, as soon as he can get here, another Daniel (whose last name I can never remember, for some reason). By the time they left it was about 5:15, and arrangements had been made for me to go over to the Logans' house, some missionaries that the Hewitts know, for dinner. So I settled in a little, showered, and walked over to the Logans'. Dinner was wonderful, and the Logans are wonderful people; I enjoyed visiting with them until it was time for the 8th grade girls to arrive for Bible study, so I walked back up to my house, where I did a little more settling in, a little bit of reading, and went to bed, trying to get over the jetlag.

This morning Mr. Smith came back and showed me more of Ukarumpa, showed me where the places I might need to know are, took me to pick my computer back up and to drop off my passport so it can be sent off to get my Visa corrected, and brought me back to the house. I then set up my internet connection with my computer and talked briefly to my parents and Becky, for the first time since I was in Brisbane on Tuesday, as my phone card has not been working. After this I went and ate a meat pie for lunch, bought a few groceries, came back to the house and have been working on my computer.

If you'd like to get in touch with me, please email me at d.miller@ukanet.net, as this is the email that I can use for free.

Sorry for being so long-winded - a lot has happened in these past several days.

Thank you for your prayers, and please keep praying, that I be able to set into life here easily and quickly, and that, above all else, God be glorified.