Guatemala

Well, only 3 more weeks till Darrin and I head to Guatemala with his daughters.

Morgan is 17 and Payton is 14 and they live in Florida with their mom. We are going to fly down to Florida on Friday and spend the night at a hotel at the airport and then we will fly out on Saturday with them. We will be in Guatemala for a week.

This is Morgan and Payton's first mission trip and they are very excited. This is mine & Darrin's third and I will be honest, I am just not that excited. Our first 2 trips were to Thailand and I loved it. I didn't love the heat but it was managable. I loved the people, I loved what we did. I loved handing Bibles out, I loved going to the slums and sharing our stories and giving out food, I loved playing with the kids in the orphanage. I just loved it. I am confident that if we were going to Thailand I would be super excited. I am trying to get more excited about Guatemala. I am sure that I am going to love the country, the people and the work that we are going to do. I am just not so sure.

Of course, our first trip to Thailand I wasn't so sure either. I had never flown, ever. For my first flight I chose to go to Thailand?!? First time flyer flying across the world for 21 hours? Yep...that was me. I wasn't nervous about the flight. However, the night before I was so unsure of what was going to happen, etc. that I didn't want to go. I was angry and irritable. Then when we FINALLY arrived in Thailand I was tired, had major jetlag and hot. I told Darrin the first day "remind me to NEVER again go out of the country". By the time that our 10 days was up I didn't want to leave. If it would have been possible for us to ship my kitties over there to me and have someone sell my house and get rid of our belongings I just may have stayed. I am pretty sure that I would have. In fact, doing missions in Thailand is not out of the question for mine and Darrin's future.

Waiting to see what God does in Guatemala. Can I love this country and the work we do there as much as I loved Thailand? I don't know but with God anything is possible.