Traveling

Our trip overall was pretty simple and not exciting. We had a long wait in Newark but it was fine. The hard part was that our flight overnight was only 7 hours and by the time they give you a little food and get the lights out you don't have many hours of sleep. Not that we slept well. And the 9-hour flight was during the day so that was really long. We landed at 8:40 pm but by the time we got out of the airport it was well after 10:00 and by the time he got to the house it was close to midnight. And then as African culture goes they had to feed us so we did not get to sleep too long before 1:00 and got up at 4:00 to shower and got to the bus station to get on the bus at 7:00 a.m. One highlight on the plane was meeting A young man who has lived in Belgium since age five because his dad has multiple lives and so he went there with his stepmoms and hasn't seen his real mom since he was five (went for a better life).. And he was flying back to Kenya for the first time since age five to meet his mom. He was 18. It was fun to talk to him on the plane. 

I think the total time of the bus ride will be about 10 hours by the time we actually stop a few times and get there. There are not bathrooms on the bus. And we get to listen to the bus drivers music the whole time. But the seats are pretty comfortable and there's good legroom. Silas, one of the 2 l, is who met us at the airport whose house we stayed at and he is with us on the bus. We would not have known how to do this without him. 

Tomorrow we will preach in separate churches and then mostly have free time the rest of the day. 

On the Road Again.

I was going to head down to Iowa late Wednesday night to stay with my pastor friend John before we head out Thursday morning. But as the weather was coming in I left earlier and I'm very thankful that I did. Not that it was a huge decision but I think it was the right one and I'm thankful for your prayers as we make simple decisions. We got to the airport 2 hours early and I think we were at our gate in less than 15 minutes. Uneventful flight to Chicago and now about five and a half hours here while we wait for our overseas flight. We've been able to do some planning and that's been good. Also great to catch up. We also were able to see Damien and his wife last night. You might remember that Damien went with me last time. 

Pastor Nicodeme mentioned that we will be at some church far out of the city on Sunday morning. I assume one of us will be preaching. 

We fly to Brussels and have a few hours there and then on to Kigali. Friday night at 7:30 we should land in Kigali and then Saturday at 9:00 or 10:00 we will take a bus up the mountain and get to Musanze. Thanks for praying

I have a slight headache and my nose is running a bit.

Pray that I sleep a good bit on the plane.