Man, you people sure can pray! As of yesterday evening, we are officially tangled in the World Wide Web again! OTE [”Oh-Tay” for all you Little Rascals] had our internet raring to go in under 20 days! After waiting 3 months for our last internet company [Boo, Vodafone!!!], we didn’t think it could be so easy.

We will be a little less cyber-scarce now. To prove it, we’ll give you the reader a little photo love. We’ve been hosting a summer team here from UT, TX State and UTSA for 10 days now, and we thought you’d like to see a few pictures from the summer so far. Enjoy!

You may have noticed that we have been slow to update our blog, and have been impossible to reach on our phone. Where have we been?

Were we captured by pirates? Have we switched to communicating in only in Greek, forgetting out all our English-speaking relationships?

The answer actually is quite simple. We’ve been forced into internet exile. Our home internet, which took months to set up, worked for two months, and at the beginning of February it went kaput. For months we’ve been working with our internet company to get back online, but to no avail. Without home internet, we have no VOIP internet telephone, and our internet use is limited to checking and answering email mostly.

Greece is still slow adapting to this new-fangled “internet”, and new connections can take months to be activated, so we were slow to switch companies. We figured, surely it couldn’t take longer than a month to fix our internet. We figured wrong. After three months with no solution, we are in the process of switching companies to the big, bad [formerly government-owned] monopoly, OTE [pronounced, “Oh-Tay”]. We are told by OTE that it will be twenty days until our internet connection is, well, connected. By all other accounts, however, we could still be waiting months.

We ask that you continue to be patient with us as we work out these communication issues. We really DO want to talk to you. We also ask that you pray for OTE to set our internet up within the 20 working days they promise. When dealing with the souls of Greek college students, we know that the internet is a small thing in light of eternity, but having this connection would allow us to stay better connected to you, our loved ones, so we appreciate your prayers.