Mailing

I think I may have sent the wrong addresses for mailing things. I'm sorry. I'll look into it and let you know when I have the correct ones.

I have my passport!

I got my passport today! I've been in Houston for the past 2 days at the passport agency. Yesterday (monday) involved waiting in line for about 3 1/2 hours, but it wasn't bad because everyone was really nice and I talked to a few people in line with me, so the wait wasn't too bad. So, after the wait, I submitted my application. When I got to the window the lady told me she had some bad news. I was afraid she was going to tell me that she couldn't give it to me for some reason. The news was just that I would have to come back the next day to pick it up. This wasn't bad news at all to me because my mom and i already had hotel reservations b/c we were originally planning to come on Tuesday to start this whole process.

ANYWAYS, today I was expecting to wait a long time to actually pick it up, but i didn't have to at all! I just walked right up to the window and handed it to me! It was a huge blessing. Now I can leave when I'm supposed to (On Thursday)...if I pack...haven't started yet!!

Thanks for all the prayers about my passport and please continue to pray as we leave and transition into the new culture! Thanks!

Passport

So it looks like I'm going to Houston to pick up a passport...and by pick up I mean reapply with all of my new forms and pics and fees. They said to go 48 hours before my travel date...which means July 10th and they would get me one and refund my other fees, etc that I paid. Thankfully, we have other official records of my birth at my house because my original birth certificate is with my passport application in New Hampshire. I'm glad they told me this about going to Houston when I called instead of just telling me it was still in New Hampshire being processed. The girl I talked to was very nice and very helpful.

At least I'll have a passport!!

Please be praying for the other teachers that I will be traveling with as we all prepare to leave and adjust to the new culture in Honduras. 3 or 4 of us will be traveling on the 12th and a few others will be traveling in the next few weeks.

Thanks!

Mailing Addresses

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Please don't send anything to these addresses yet. I may have mentioned the wrong ones. I'll change them when I find out the correct ones. Sorry!
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Hi Everyone!
Many of you have asked what my address will be while I'm in Honduras. I'll actually have two...
The first is for letters, cards, and small packages (no bigger than a shoebox):
Hannah Dakel
World Gospel Outreach
TGU 144
PO Box 02-5387
Miami, FL 3310-5387

This second one is for larger packages. Please keep in mind that it could take several weeks for me to receive the package, so please don't send any perishable things:
Hannah Dakel
World Gospel Outreach
c/o/ F. Lynn Clough
18728 Hurley Lane
Conroe, TX 77384

You may have noticed that neither one of them is addressed directly to Honduras. That's because the mail service there isn't very reliable, so they use different services. It should get to me! I would also love to get emails (or facebook correspondence) from you and I will try to respond to all of them (although I can't promise how quickly)! My email address is hannah.dakel@gmail.com. Please email me if you'd like to receive my newsletter.

9 days (maybe)

I'm supposed to leave in 9 days and my passport is currently being processed in New Hampshire...

I'm hoping and praying that it gets here in time for me to leave on the 12th like I'm supposed to, but I'm also strangely ok with it not being here yet. If it's not here on the 12th, maybe there's a reason I'm not supposed to leave on the 12th. I mean, it would be a mess to change my travel plans and everything, but I'm ok with God's timing :).

In other news, I was introduced at my church in Ft. Worth on Sunday. It went well and was encouraging to have people pray for me and meet some new people in the church that have been to Honduras. One of the men I met said the flight into Tegucigalpa is all worth it. He said the plane tilts and you see thatched roofs out the window, then you go around a mountain and you hit the ground with the brakes put on immediately because the runway is so short! That should be fun! I'll be introduced at my home church this Sunday.

I can't believe that these last few days are going by so quickly!

18 days!

I'm leaving for Honduras in 18 days! I can't believe that the time has gone so quickly! I finish my last week of work this week and then I have oh, about a week and a half to get ready to leave!

If you live in the Dallas or Ft. Worth areas, I'm being "introduced" at my 2 churches on the following dates, and would love if you could come:

Sunday, July 1: McKinney Memorial Bible Church, Ft. Worth, TX
Services are at 9am and 10:30. I will be introduced at the end of both services.
McKinney is the church I attended while I went to TCU. I went with a group of students from Mckinney to Urbana, the missions conference where I found out about the teaching position with World Gospel Outreach.

Sunday, July 8: Richland Bible Fellowship Church, Richardson, TX
Services are at 8:30, 10, and 11:30. I don't know the details yet of which services or when during the service the introduction will take place.
RBF is the church I grew up in! I went on my first mission trip while in the youth group at RBF. This trip is one of the things God used to get me interested in missions.

During the introduction, they will tell the congregation who I am, what I will be doing, and pray for me.

• Please continue to pray that my passport will arrive in time! I will call them by the end of the week to see about it if I haven't received it yet.
• Also please be praying for me and my family and friends as I'm starting the "goodbye" process. My twin brother, Robbie, is working at camp and I'm going to see him this weekend to say "bye." I'm very thankful for the technology that we have now. If I was doing this about 10 years or so ago, it would have been a lot harder to keep in touch.
• Please also pray that I would spend these last few weeks wisely and get everything finished that I need to at home.

Plane Tickets

I bought my plane tickets! This actually happened a few weeks ago, but I guess I haven't mentioned it yet. I'll be leaving Dallas on July 12th and will return on November 23rd, the day after Thanksgiving. I'll be home until about January 2nd (I haven't gotten those plane tickets yet). On July 12th, I fly from DFW to Houston, then in Houston i get on a plane with at least 2 other teachers I will be working with and we fly to Tegucigalpa!! I'll have about a week or so to get settled and figure things out. Then training/orientation starts on July 23rd and the first day of school is that next week (which I guess would be the 30th).

Every day I get a little more excited about going! It will be sad leaving, but I know I will be back in November, so it's not so bad.

Just pray that my passport comes when it's supposed to! I ordered it at the beginning of April and they told me it should be here in the middle of June...which would be next week! I've heard about a lot of passports taking longer than expected, but hopefully the month between the expected arrival date and July 12th will be enough time! I'm not too worried about it because God has provided so much already. Pretty much everything I've needed so far has fallen right into place! It's confirming that this is really what I'm supposed to be doing!

Also please pray for me as I try to figure out which insurance plan to get. This is one of the first "grown up" decisions I've had to make...besides moving to Honduras :).

Thanks and God bless!