God's Wisdom

May 20, 2010

Our travels today took us from the Atlantic Community Church in Apohaqui, NB to Bangor International Airport to LaGuardia Airport in New York City to George W. Bush International Airport in Houston to Guatemala Airport and lastly to a Hostel in Somila, just outside Guatemala City.  Overall we had been travelling for 23hours and watched the sunrise in one country and set in another.

The weather changed as rapid as our location, but because of my extreme excitement it had little impact on my mood.  The odd event of the day would have to be the fact that in the middle of LaGuardia Airport, I managed to pick out Russel, who was the star of two of the most recent "Survivor" series.

Below is what I wrote in my journal for the day.

"Just went through my first airport screening.  A bit hard on the nervous system.  The day so far has been full of laughs and my stomach and cheeks already hurts, and it is only day one.  The drive was smooth and many thanks should go to Dave McIntyre for his great help in that department.

It was cool that a number of people showed up at the church this morning to see us off, despite the fact that we left at 4:00am.  It is great to know that we have people at home supporting and praying for us.

We got through the US border with no issues and had plenty of time at the airport to send some emails and have a modest truck stop breakfast.

Starting to get nervous about take-off, in ten minutes....

My first flight was incredible.  The US is full of ballfields, most of which were large and empty.  One thing that I saw was a farm yard with silage wraps arranged to state 'Gods Wisdom' and I kinda felt that it was rather appropriate and hopefully blesses the rest of our trip.  I go with God's wisdom.

Flying into New York City was awesome.  The skyline was very impressive with the Empire States Building really standing out with the Statue of Liberty barely in view in the distance.  Once at LaGuardia, and at the right gate, we waited for our flight.  While we sat there Russel from Survivor strolled by.  I noticed him and pointed him out to the rest of the team.  Ray approached him and he was agreeable to having his picture taken and even hung up his cell to talk to us.  Of course we all took advantage of the photo op.

Our flight from NY to Houston was long but rather uneventful.  The Houston airport was huge and a cool building with a subway coming right into the airport and a highway underpass travelling right under the airport taxi runway.

From Houston to Guatemala provided some excitement as weather at the Guatemala airport caused us to have to circle the airport for over 1/2 an hour.  We watched from above the clouds as lightning flashed around us.  It was an awesome light show to watch from above the clouds.  I typically like watching lightning but this was a cool new angle for sure.

Overall it was a great first time flying experience and an awesome first day for our Mission.