HERE WE GO!!
God is so good! It has been an eventful day to say the least. We are yet to leave the U.S. after several bumps on our adventure. We started off the day with complications during check-in. Some of us were able to get our boarding passes and some of us couldn't. None of us however were getting passes for our luggage. After about an hour waiting at the counter for an answer, the lady who was helping us, manually had to enter the information for each of our bags. She was super sweet and we are very grateful to have had her helping us. At this point we thought the worst had come; since everyone around us took maybe 10 minutes to check their bags. We went through security and had a great what we thought would be our "final" american meal before leaving the U.S. However, God likes to keep us on our toes. As we walked to our terminal we noticed the time had changed for our departure. Sean quickly went to the desk to see if the information being displayed on the screens was accurate. Turns out the weather from the previous day had backed up several flights and ours happened to be one of them. For many travelers an hour delay wouldn't really affect their whole flight plan, but for us it would! We sat in the Charlotte airport waiting patiently for our now super delayed flight to finally take off. We are blessed however, we were able to find another flight out of Miami tonight since we missed our connector flight with the hour delay. We are now waiting out a 6 hour layover in the airport enjoying as a team listening to music, a nice meal, and watching fireworks from our terminal. We are scheduled to take off from Miami here at 11:55 to Lima, Peru. Since we had to change that connector as well we will be enjoying another 6 hour layover in Peru before departing for our final destination to Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
We greatly appreciate your continued prayers. As we sat in the airport in Charlotte after finding out about the flight delay (knowing we would now not be able to catch our connector flight) we prayed that the Lord would continue to bring us peace. No matter how long it takes us we are going to do His will in Bolivia. Pray that we as a team will be able to find some sleep either on the plane to Peru or in the airport since we are losing the extra morning we had planned to catch up on rest before starting our pack filled schedule. We would also greatly appreciate your prayers that our luggage will arrive with us. Since we had to manually enter the information in we were given bar-codes to scan along with our boarding passes. Not quite sure why? But we've been told if we forget to scan those than our luggage will not transfer correctly (or something to that degree). Thankfully we all have packed at least 4 days worth of clothes to wear in our carry-on's. It's always good to think ahead! :D
It hasn't been all that bad even with all the hurdles we had to overcome; we are enjoying spending time together as a team making adventures and memories that will last a lifetime. I am sure we will have many more stories to tell once we actually arrive in Bolivia.
I wish you all the best 4th of July with all your family and friends! God Bless America
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STAY TUNED and keep us in your prayers! :D
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