We made it!

Everything went well today, and we're here at the children's home. It's nice to be in the land that needs no air conditioning! It's great to see all of the kids again- and have them laugh at us because we don't speak Spanish, but we'll be working on that starting on Monday.

It has been a pretty long day- we didn't finish packing until late last night (nearly midnight). We had a little excitement, though, to give us a diversion from packing. Missy, the red-tongued dog, found a 5' rattlesnake in the yard around 10 pm. She started barking, so we went outside and I had to hop a couple of fences to get to it, but I killed it- with a little help from my dad. I couldn't be there for nearly a month and not kill one...

Anyway, we finished packing and then got up to go to the airport at 3:30 am. My parents got up early with us and took us to the airport. It was sad to say goodbye to them- we got pretty used to seeing them the last few weeks. But we were also excited to get to Guatemala. All of our bags met the weight restrictions- one was exactly 50.0 lbs! We flew from Midland to Houston on an iddy biddy plane which was definitely not built for people my size. But it was a nice flight.

When we were in the airport in Houston, we got a nice surprise during our layover. Kara looked at the gate right across from us and saw David Depew, the president of our mission organization. He was catching a flight to Nicaragua just a few minutes before our flight to Guatemala, so that was a fun surprise to get to see him.

When we got to the airport in Guatemala, Wendy (one of the other missionaries here) was there to meet us. It was kind of a crazy scene, with a crowd of people around us with whom we can't communicate. Thank the Lord for Wendy! She brought us back to NLCH (after a stop at Pollo Campero for lunch- yum), where we got to see these wonderful kids again and even got to have a tour of what will be our apartment when construction is finished. It's really nice...

It's great to be back here. We've been talking about it for so long, and now it's finally happened. Now we just pray that this whole experience can be all that the Lord desires it to be for us.