The first day of Travel was a bit exciting. One of our team members didn’t make it. And the flight with most of our team was on was almost late taking off and we only had 45 minutes to make our connection in Houston. Our team members already in Houston were working to try and get them to hold the plane until we got there. And when we landed and deplaned we had approximately 15 minutes to run from o e terminal to the tram, get to the next terminal and then the gate. We barely made it but we did.

We still sat on the tarmac for about 15 minutes and one of our team commented that we had time. Which i responded, “Hopefully that means our luggage will make it too.” It did. Everyone and everything made it except for Emily who is coming in today. We piled into three small trucks with all of our luggage in the back. Went to eat lunch and then get more supplies at Walmart. Those supplies also went in the back of the three small trucks. We had about a 3 hour drive to the communities of El Horno, El Sute, and Aguazarca. The first part of the ride was fine but then it seemed like we were on a creek bed making our way up stream and in the dark, complete darkness.

It’s difficult to describe this to people who have lived in places with street lamps and city lights. But the darkness is complete. You can see nothing. Nothing…unless you look up and you can see stars and planets like never before. The words “star light, star bright” came to mind.

When we arrived in El Horno we were welcomed and greeted and got all of our bags in and then went to dinner. We drive up the way to a house where we were served black beans, cheese, eggs and awesome tortillas. After dinner we went back to the church where we are sleeping and working to get ready for bed.

The baño is an out house with bucket flush. If you don’t know what that is I’ll explain on another post. Just let me know.

Sleep came easy to me. The only thing that woke me was the wind which was howling all night and shaking the metal roof on the Church. The other thing that woke me is needing to use the baño. When I got back to go back to sleep the roosters, of course crowed me back to sleep.

More later.

• Uncategorized