A wise man once said life has 3 phases: preparation, the journey, and reflection. Through years of learning, molding, pursuing, failing, growing… we have felt a persistent calling, identified it’s roots, and diligently pursued its fruition (read our “About” page for more on our story). We now sit at the brink of a passion becoming reality, our springs loaded and ready to leap from preparation into the journey… and yet we are forced to wait. Just months ago, we thought we’d be on our way to PNG by now. Instead, it seems our plans are delayed until at least January. It’s like the worst case of senioritis or the watched pot that never boils. We’re too afraid to blink but fear our eyes will dry out if we don’t.
And so we find ourselves revisiting the age old lesson of patience, and the question becomes not when, but what we will do with the waiting period. Being a missionary clearly starts long before lift off on that first flight. A friend recently asked if coronavirus has thrown a wrench in our plans, to which we answered with a resounding yes. We were reminded, however, that a commitment to cross-cultural kingdom service is a registration for a life full of wrenches. With that perspective, we are claiming this time as a gift to visit our loved ones, raise support, study a new language, and share our passion with anyone that will listen.
An update from PNG: COVID-19 is present but has been difficult to accurately track in case numbers and geographic distribution across Papua New Guinea. Testing, resources, and healthcare workers remain limited, and even some medications for other common diseases (e.g. malaria, neonatal prematurity) are harder to come by as first world countries claim them as potential covid-19 remedies. These secondary impacts to many developing countries truly are a need for prayer. A handful of other missionary doctors have also experienced unforeseen delays to their travel, so our friends at Kudjip are understaffed. Please pray for strength and perseverance for our friends in PNG that are still working to deliver hope and healing.
As we wait, we invite you to wait with us, pray with us, and see what still quiet whispers can be heard from above. Sit around the proverbial fire and watch the pot with us. We trust it will boil soon enough. Until then, we hang in the present, utilizing it to prepare for what’s to come while taking care not to miss what is before us. Is that a bubble rising…
-Taylor
Myatts in the Midst 
MARCH 1st your on a plane winging your way to PNG. love you friend May you have Jesus ever so close as you are Jesus to countless others. Know we think and pray for you as continue this walk. Yes a few hiccups, but know you 2 can handle it. Looking forward in learning about your adventures with Jesus as you are the hands and feet of our savior. Prayers winging their way brother.
Oh we finally both just got our first covid shots. maybe life can be more normal for 2 older folks. G is still not as healthy as she needs to be. Our oldest daughter got covid and 3 of her kids along with husband. A real mess she has been pretty sick rest have mostly gotten over it. Not sure what she is going to do almost 2 weeks already and she still can’t function.
Spent a good hour on phone with Wendell and caught up with his life and his new grand son. Says pheasants are coming into the barn and eating horse spilled grain He bout some grain to feed them. but now with the week of above temps feed will be available. in one week we went from 20 inches of snow to 4 inches a many bare spots developing. Spring is coming.
Love you will be in my prayers Leroy
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