Monday, Jan.22 - 4:30 pm - a truck needs a return load for Hungary, and was waiting in Basel, Switzerland (right acrossed the border from us).
We had just been informed that a Hungarian mission was in great need for clothing for their second hand store (they support various mission projects with the proceeds, like a Christian radio station in Cluj, Romania) - so we told him to come.
Now - on such short notice, finding engough personell can be a real challenge.
In the picture you see Timo (16) and Gusti (68) - they shouldered the brunt of loading 1800 boxes = 15 metric tons into that truck.
I was able to help to about 1 PM when I had to leave to take care of the paper work. I returned at 3:30 PM with Remy (19) and Fritz - Timo grandfather (70) came along at 4 PM.
The truck was ready to roll at 5:30 PM.
At about 1:00 AM on Wednesday, winter literally fell on us. Temperatures just dropped below freezing and loads of snow fell out of the skies.
But our truck was already out of the snow front - and pretty much able to stay ahead of it!
So the LORD is good in providing such perfect timing, as now we cannot use the fork truck, and would have had the freezing inclement weather to suffer, would the truck shown up today, as orginially planned!
As all the goods have been carefully presorted and packed, the folks on the receiving end should be pretty happy with what they are getting!