Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Finally in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

I just wanted to update people on our travel in Bolivia. I asked for prayer for that and for prayer for the sick people on our team. Emanuel is better but most of us have colds of some sort so pray for our health. So we started out in Sunday by traveling from our church to the other teams church because it was about forty five minutes closer to the bus station. We slept at their church and then got up early in the moring to catch a bus to a Argentinan, Bolivian border town where we could cross. We were sort of nervous about crossing because we herd they were strick if people were sick. Americans had to pay $135 vengance tax to enter Bolivia, beacuse that is what the US chrages for them to get in. After we go the finances worked and and applied for our visas we were waiting in line and one of our girls passed out. It was high altitude so they said that that kind of thing happens so they still let us into Bolivia. We could not but the bus tickets in advance because you have to be in the country to buy them, so all the buses were full. So we had no place to stay in this little border town. So some of the leaders started looking for churches and we found one that said we could sleep there. The people who were really sick stayed in a hostel because it is cold and they do not heat their churches. Then we got up early again to catch a bus and it was an hour and a half late. We started driving and it was a really rough dirt road through the desert. People we getting motion sick and all that good stuff. It was about a ten hour bus trip. Then we made it to where the other team is staying at about nine oclock at night and we had to hurry to catch another bus. We road on that bus untill three in the morining and then we go on another bus and we arrived here in Cochabamba, Bolivia at about eight thirty in the morning. All of us are pretty tired but the church seems like it is going to be good to work with. I just wanted to share that travel experience we had. We arrived safely which is all that really matters. I would appreciate your continual prayers, we only have three weeks of outreach left and i am sure that they will go very fast. Thank you, Christopher.

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