Okay so this is going to be one of my more interesting blog’s cause this has never happened to me before and it was pretty much my worst nightmare…..
So after living in Nicaragua for 5 and a half months I found myself going home for spring break, the others on the team went to san juan and Costa rica but me and Seth decided to go home. He is going to see his girlfriend and I am going to see close friends and family… but today God decided to test me… so I get to the airport and check in and everything is going great, but then as I was getting checked in to the plain they said they were not boarding yet, I was thinking okay well I guess I will just have to wait like 10 min’s but no….. after I waited for 30 min’s I asked if I would be able to make my connection flight in Huston, and they told me that there was a vary good chance that I would not get there today, I was thinking oh my goodness, I did not have my phone, I did not know anyone’s number or have anywhere to go so I was thinking if Seth had not left yet I could use his phone so I went over to his gate and told him what was going on and he said that I could use his phone so he left and I had his phone… I started to pray and read my bible when I had read a little I prayed that God would fix the plain….. I stood next to the glass wall that separated me form the outside and prayed again and as I ended my prayer the person on the intercom said that the flight was cancelled… at that moment I thought that I would have to sleep In the airport and I did not know how I felt about that… so after I talked to the airline people and they said that they do not allow people to sleep there and I would have to stand in a line (witch had 2 hundred people in it), For hours trying to get my info for the hotel they were going to put me in, I called tana and she talked to Charles and they said that I would be better off staying I a hotel….. I was thinking that there was no way that after all the people talk to them and had found places to sleep would there be a place for just me….. At this point I was feeling completely lost and stranded, I was stock in a line that would take me hours too get passed and I was vary tired…. But I did not stop believing that God had my back and so as I stood there at the airport and I praised God for everything he had given me…. And right as I was finishing my praise one of the other passengers form the my flight asked me how I was doing, I just spilled out on how scared I was and how I just wanted to see my friends…. After talking to him for awhile one of the people from the airline came and asked him how many were in his group so that they could book them all in the same hotel, he said 24, the man went and booked the rooms and then he told me that there was only 23 people in his group and that he had put a spot in for me… I was so glad just to know where I was going to sleep and that I would not be alone… so after I was introduced to all of them I found out that they were all part of group from Canada in a city called Calgary…. I talked to a lot of his group and told them about all the work that I have been doing in Granada and they told me of what they had been doing In the jungle of Nicaragua……
the best western that we stayed at was one of the more nicer places that I have stayed at, there was 3 free meals so i was vary satisfied I had my own bed and unlimited internet access after playing a really long Game of crazy 8’s with some of the guys form Calgary I went to my room and talked to my cousin on skype, it was the best feeling hearing her voice and knowing that I was safe….. When I got to the airport the next morning I was vary glad to have made so many new friends, and that I had passed the test that God had given me……I got my new flight info and a cup of coffee that my friend Craig from Calgary bought me…. Then I let some of them use my computer too try to find a service too go to that night cause they would not be able to get home till the next day due to weather…… so after all that I helped Craig set up a face book so that we would be able to say hi every once in a while….
As I write this I am sitting on a plain on my way to Huston and thanking God for the Calgary Church, and for the journey that God has put me on so that my faith could grow….
You may remember in one of my earlier blog’s when I quoted 1 peter 1:7
These have come so that your faith–of greater worth then gold, which perishes even though refined by fire–may be proven genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed…..
