In Transition

We are sitting in our hotel room right now. This morning we finished some last minute packing and organizing before we had a quick breakfast with Isabel, our maid. She just returned yesterday from a trip to the United States to raise support for her missions in Mexico. Although it was sad to say good-bye, there was a great deal of joy and celebration because Isabel herself is soon to head off on a missionary journey in May. We enjoyed hearing her perspective on the US (it was her first trip) and it was such a joy to hear how God provided her support as well.

We got to the hotel at lunch time. After eating a quick lunch, we went swimming in the pool. We didn't spend much time there because it was TOO cold. Although it was very warm outside, the pool had not had time to get warm. Brooklyn played hard and was then ready to take a long nap (as were we). Really, the timing was perfect since it started raining very hard as soon as we came in. The electricity went off after a particularly fierce thunder boom....but we all slept peacefully anyway!

Tonight we are going out to dinner with our fellow MAFers. The Dicksons are here to stay in Costa Rica but the DiCrastos will be traveling with us tomorrow.

We leave the hotel tomorrow at around 7:30 in the morning. Our flight won't leave until 10:30 am. We'll arrive in Quito, Ecuador at 1:30 (CST). It seems so unreal that we're doing this but we sure are having fun! Thanks for your prayers. We will let you know as soon as we can that we have arrived safely in Ecuador.

P.S. I'm still deaf and pregnant! Somehow not being able to hear out of one ear makes me feel even more dumb and clumsy. Great. Just pray that somehow the change in altitude in the plane would pop that stupid wax plug out (without hurting me, of course) : ) I'm just nervous about arriving in Ecuador and struggling to understand their Spanish accents anyway, let alone if they speak into the wrong ear!