Friday, October 8, 2010

Post from Wayne about our flight

We arrived in LA and we were told earlier we would have to claim our bags there. We went to the baggage claim and the baggage started coming out and we never saw ours! We waited about 30 minutes -- no luggage. So I thought that they had lost our luggage! I said a prayer that we would find our luggage because it had EVERYTHING in it! I went to the baggage customer service and they said it had already been routed through to Guangzhou -- answered prayer!!! We then had to find our connecting flight with China Southern. We didn't know where that was so I asked a man and he said we would have to take bus "A". We waited 10 minutes and the bus arrived. We rode around for about 15 minutes until finally we came to the China southern terminal. We got our tickets and found our gate number. It was on the back side of no-where in the "Hood"! We had a 3 hour wait. When we started to board, we were actually put on another bus (standing room only) and we road to the other side of the "Hood" to another building and finally boarded the plane. A month ago I had been praying about this long flight because I just can't handle long journeys very well. That flight to Brazil was much shorter than that and I got squirrely. Again I prayed that I would make this 15 hour flight. Long story short, I made it fine, I slept most of the trip (even though we had NO room and our knees were literally touching the seat in front of us). Again God answered our prayers! We arrived in Guangzhou, claimed our bags and found another passenger who could speak English and he showed us where to go to re-check our baggage for the last leg of the flight. We went through security and found our gate. We had a 4 hour wait (we thought). On the flight information board, we noticed that our flight to Wuhan had been cancelled!!!! Here we are in China, can't speak Chinese and don't know what to do. We found a lady who could speak some English and she told us we had to go back out of security to the ticket counter to find out what we were to do now. The whole time I was thinking what about our luggage, how are we going to get to Wuhan, what about our guide who is waiting on us there, etc. All of these fears and anxieties started setting in. Again we started praying, it was out of our control and in God's hands. We just prayed that He would oversee the situation. We got to the ticket counter and the lady said the flight was back on again. Thank you Jesus! Another answered prayer. Long story short, we went back through security and to the boarding gate. Our flight ended up being delayed 1 hour but we made it fine!
Through this whole process God is showing us to rely on Him and not on ourselves.

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