Emmanuel Christian Fellowship - McGregor, TX

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hey there yall!!!

we’ll we’ve made it to central america!!! we arrived yesterday morning. we left madrid, spain and the inevitable happened…i got the spoiled, bratty little kid who sits behind you being loud and kicking your seat the whole way…10-11 hours of flight. i spoke with this girl’s father as calmly as i could and told him that she was kicking my seat. after him not understanding english and me using sign/body language…he told her to stop, but she’s the type of girl who gets her way and the parents are the type of parents who spare the rod. i could tell that immediately.

i had been up way too many hours before this flight and my patience was hanging on by a thread. i wanted nothing but sleep. it was impossible with this little girl kicking the seat, beating on the fold-out tray behind my seat, and laying on the floor with her feet kicking mine. i was all kinds of irritated…horribly, horribly irritated. it took everything in me to remain Christ-like.

there was an open seat by Krystal, a girl on my team, and i went and sat by her. i was able to almost immediately go to sleep and stay there without any interruptions. but i didn’t get there until almost 7 hours into the flight. all is well though. we made it to bogota, columbia and as tired as i still was i didn’t sleep. we made it there about 9pm and we had an 11 hour layover. so all the time we had in the airport was overnight. the majority of the squad went to sleep. i couldn’t go to sleep in peace knowing that most of the squad (25 of us) were asleep. i had the fear that everyone would be on the back side of dreamland when it was time to get up at 6:45am…so i stayed awake all night while the others slept. there were only about 3 of us who stayed awake.

all night i listened to music, prayed, read, drew, talked to people…mostly the security guards who patrolled all night, watched the people work/clean, took pictures of some of the squad who went to sleep, and waited for the squad to start waking up. it was 5am before some of them started to wake up.

finally 6:45 came for our squad meeting so that we would know what to do and where to go. our plane left at 9:35-9:45am…something like that. but we had to make all the necessary preparations so early because we were such a big group. we finally made it through all the check points, bag checks, body searches…craziness. 2 hours after the plane got in the air we were in costa rica…a beautiful country from the air. last night was my first night to spend and i slept so good….finally. i’m on a top bunk in a room with space for 16 girls at the YWAM San Jose Base. I’ve already met some nice people. we’re praying now as to what the Lord would have us do individually. we will meet back as teams and share what God’s telling us and then we’ll find out what the ministry opportunities are in a few days.

tomorrow some are talking about going to the beach. there are opportunities for other things like waterfalls, visiting volcanos, and one other thing…can’t remember. so we’re taking a few days to relax and to just be with God, and to get adjusted to this time-zone.

our transition was pretty cool getting here to central america. we were in 3 countries and 2 continents in 1 day…south africa, zurich, swizerland and madrid spain. most of the group had to go on to madrid but there were 8 of us who actually got to explore zurich for 3 hours. i was one of those who got to explore. it was amazingly beautiful!!! madrid was amazing as well…i loved it there!!!

so anyways, all is well…i went through a 2-3 day bout of diarrhea in Badplaas, South Africa…but i’m good now. the food is great here in central america. we haven’t been out much yet, but it’s soon to come. there’s a mad-crazy rumor going around that there is a Wal-Mart somewhere around here. i’ll let you all know what’s going on as i can. thanks so much for your prayers, you support and your love!! i love you all!!

~~traday~~
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