The Lord definitely carried booboo and I all the way down here. I met up with my driver and ministry partner Gerardo in Tijuana. we tanked up and headed off west thru Tecate and on near Mexicali. After dealing with the car paperwork and a few other details we began the long trek across the barren desert over to Sonoyta. Imagine no water, no food, no gas, no hotel, nothin'! and thats where we were when we discovered our tank was empty! We were 70 kilometers out and i told Gerardo it would be a miracle if we made it. well we did, I love miracles!
The next fun thing that happened was a flash hurricane style storm over Obregon. we hid under the roof of a gas station as it was impossible to drive. Gerardo braved the elements to grab the guitars and several boxes of bibles from the back. He crammed them on top of booboo and I and there we sat for almost an hour. finally we left, me still with a guitar practically up my nose and booboo hiding her head 'til it was over. At last we passed thru the worst of it, a few hours off schedule but glad to be alive albeit wet, stinky, dirty and hungry.
When we finally arrived in Culiacan a day late, and emptied out the car, i discovered nearly ALL my clothes were wet. Nothing was damaged but its taken me two days now to get everything hung out on the line or draped over whatever I could find.
So I've still got loads of mess and disorder to sort out but the phones work again, the AC is on high, the plumber and gardner come saturday to fix things, and I'm so thankful to be here.
Students have been dropping by already asking when we can start classes. I just got this sense this summer that God was going to really bless my little English school here and it sure looks like thats happening.
You know, in addition to your prayers, i think a lot of this blessing can be attributed to the almost constant worship that went on during the 4 day drive down here. we had the praise music cranked as we sang song after song. Its as if our praise became a weapon to slash thru whatever troubles the enemy had planned for us and our shouting the victory in hope became the victory in real time.
Lets hope to remember that next time things look dicey!
Well, I'll get some cool pictures on facebook and the website as soon as I can get the rest of my stuff organized and find the camera, I'm sure its under something.
Thanks again for the wonderful prayer send off at FBC, and many other gestures of kindness and care. i miss you all already. Even so, I'm very glad to be here. I can feel that God is going to do some great things this season and I'm so grateful your prayers and contributions are enabling me to be a part of it.
Biggest blessings possible for all of you!
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