Lima, Peru

Here's the update. 

#1- Spanish language keyboards= coñfusing

#2- We are in the Lima Airport and have been since 3pm. We were booked from here on a 1015pm flight to Santa Cruz with another carrier. What we weren't told was that the flight was already overbooked before United added our 13 reservations. Needless to say, we won't be on that flight. The next few days are also already overbooked. As are flights to Santa Cruz with the other airline here that flies there. Panama had no openings on flights to Santa Cruz until July 22. Bolivia feels VERY far away to me right now.

#3- Vi Lienbach (Stac's mom and a person with TONS of experience in travel) is working with United to try and get us back to Panama where there is at least a United counter. In Peru there is none, and we feel fairly stranded.

#4- Although they show signs of starting to be pushed pretty far, the students are doing amazing! They invented a new game with a hacky sack. It is unnamed, but lots of fun (at least in the airport).

#5- We think a few bags are down in the baggage claim area here. There are 6 we haven't seen since Dallas.  Those of us without bags miss clean clothes. Except me, this is like Jesse heaven for no one to be able to put on clean clothes. Bring on the dirt.

#6- While we were trying to figure out what happens next, the students initiated and led a prayer time together. I almost cried. It was awesome.

Things to pray for:

#1- That we don't have to start paying rent in the Lima airport. If the door to Bolivia is shut, for whatever reason, then we know that God is still at work wherever we are! Pray that we figure out the next place that we are supposed to go!

#2- Relationships. Everybody is getting along great. That might change if we have to spend the night in the airport.

#3- Me. I am flexible. I thrive in choas and midstream course changes. This is pushing me a lot. It's fairly overwhelming. On the bright side, I am better at Spanish (or God is!) than I thought. Between the English that most people know and the Spanish I know, communication has been hard but not impossible. 

As a last note, Stac is the man. His travel experience and ability to laugh with me when things go wrong have been awesome. I'm SO grateful that he is here.