We´re HERE!!

Just a short little blog to let everyone know we are at Hope of Life safe and sound. We had quite a long travel day yesterday. We met at the Johnson house at 4am, prayed, loaded luggage, and off we went. We made excellent time to the airport (can´t imagine why, it´s not like we hit a lot of traffic at 5am on a Saturday morning...) and were smoothly checked in by 815. Everyone made it quickly through security (no body scans needed for this group!), boarded the plane and off we went! We had a quick turn around in El Salvador and a very smooth little hop of a flight into Guatemala City, passing the volcanos on the way!

We were pretty much the only people in line at customs so we quickly and smoothly made it through, grabbed our luggage (made simpler thanks to the yellow GROUP tags that labeled them!) and found our HOL staff anxiously waiting outside the doors! We were supposed to have been the last group of the 3 arriving today (we are here with a group of students from Salisbury Univ and a group of 5 from Texas) but we were actually the 2nd group. We were still waiting for the SU group. They were supposed to arrive around 12 but got very delayed in Miami. Melany said that they sat on the plane for almost 2 hours while they were working on a mechanical function - a broken toilet... Then they got off the plane to switch planes and of course had to wait to have it fueled and all the luggage switched over. So they actually landed about 20 minutes after us!

We did a quick stop at Pollo Campero (Guatemalan KFC) and off we went. We didn´t arrive at the mission until almost 8. Had a yummy dinner (that we were pretty much too tired to fully enjoy), got our room assignments and crashed!

Today will bring church and free time on site. I know our team is really excited to go to the orphanage!! Please continue to pray for good health, open hearts and opportunities to share God´s love. More to come...