Bye Bye Lima....Hello Kona, Hawaii

I'm writting this blog from the beautiful Kona, Hawaii....never in my wildest dreams I would have thought I'd be here. I'm soo afraid of planes and flying that I thought I could never go anywhere because I would pass out, but here we were, after 5 flights on a plane, we made it to YWAM Kona, Hawaii !

The last week in Lima was soo crazy, we were still clearing the house we rented, still finishing working on the house (painting and stuff), finishing patients, finishing work at Esperanza de Ana (an organization I have been working with) and Maclau finishing school. The very last day in Lima, I had work from 8-2pm and then I went to Esperanza de Ana until 5pm to finish with two patients. I still had no body to take care of my dog until that day around noon, so I got to Lima (Chilca is an hour away by bus) and my house still had stuff in it!!! I took trash away, grabbed my dod and went to leave him with a girl from our church. She was surprised that my flight was that day....and asked me "what if you didn't find someone to take care of Chispa?" and I answered the truth..."that never crossed my mind, I knew it would work out somehow, I just had to believe God could take care of every detail of our trip" and He did, I had prayed over our dog, for good people to give him love and look after him. Because I believe with all my heart that God cares about all the aspects of our lives, and that includes our pets.

Anyways, we got to the airport, late, sweaty, running, and we made it to our plane. Maria Claudia slept in both flights and we landed in Washington on friday 15th. We spent almost 20 days with my mom and Jim (my mom's husband) at their house. It was exactly what we needed, time to slow down, stop, take a Deep breath before heading off to Kona to begin our training.

We arrived in Kona on January 4th, it was late, we were tired from traveling all day and we were welcomed with applause and shouting and smiles and hugs and kindness. They gave us food, coffee and the key to our room and we were left to rest. I still can't believe we are here, how many times we have wanted to quit, we felt alone in this journey, we have felt very lonely, swimming against the current, but we somehow never backed out, and went forward with what we believe with all our hearts the Lord wants to do in our lives. We have pushed down His calling for too long, and yes it's hard, yes it looks imposible to finance, it looks crazy to do this with your family, but we have seen the Lord confirming that we are where He has led us and He must have a very good plan and we are trusting that His ways are good and perfect always!

So stay tunned! pray for us! follow us in this adventure of faith with the Lord, and fight with us the good fight, we sure need your prayers, to help us, to sustain us and to encourage us.

We are here, by God's grace, and we are ready for what He will do in our lives the next 6 months, and then to listen and obey and serve Him where He wants us to be.