Another early morning for me! I woke up at 2:30am to be at the church by 3:30. Our young adult mission team met there first and then carpooled to the airport for a 6:30 flight. Surprisingly, there were several complications with our reservation so checking in took about an hour. Though it was the longest it’s ever taken me to get through the Boise airport, it didn’t compare to the 3 hours in Tel-Aviv!
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| Just the girls hanging out in Houston |
The flights went smoothly for the rest of the day as we flew to Salt Lake, Houston, and then Managua. When we got to Managua, Nicaragua the passport agent told me to get a new passport because mine is full! Oops! I didn’t plan ahead for this trip, so I’m hoping they’ll squeeze the last few stamps for my trip in there!!
The trip was set up where our large suitcase was filled with ministry supplies and checked all the way through to our destination, and our personal belongings were put in a small suitcase as a carry-on. We waited for our ministry bags to come through the conveyer belt in Nicaragua, but they never came! None of our ministry bags made it!!
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| The whole group at the hotel in Managua |
In all my years of mission work, the thing that I am always reminded of is to be flexible. It certainly came in handy in this case. It also helped that I’m not the leader of this trip. There is always more stress and responsibility as the leader. And what a change and relief for me to sit back and know that God will take care of the situation, I just have to trust Him to do so! Kenton did a great job handling the situation though. He divided us up to get some people organizing the possibility of picking up the luggage the next morning, others to pick up the van, others for getting dinner, others to meet up with Mike from Peru when his flight got in, and me to register us in the hotel across the street. We demonstrated excellent teamwork on the first day of the trip!
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