Barbara Stubee, our own Capt. Sully

Well, we have finally arrived in Ayaviri and our trip here was an adventure from the start. We all met at FBC PN yesterday and loaded up the bus to head to the airport. Barbara Stubee was our bus driver. We headed to Houston and got about 15 or 20 minutes down 69 north when a tire blew on the bus! You may have seen it on the news last night. Barbara steered that bus off the road, taking out about 50 feet of guardrail and clipping a few poles. It probably took about 15 seconds to stop, during which time I had the following thougts; Where is my seatbelt - answer none on the bus except for driver. Why is it taking so long to stop- it didn´t really. When this bus rolls over, where am I going to land and how can I protect my head- I have no control of that. And then I looked up the bus through the windsheild and saw a pole coming right at Barbara and I thought - If that pole hits her, she will die. Barbara moved the bus past that pole- she says God did it and we came to a stop. The out into the heat and scrambling to unload all our stuff and get people with vans etc out to us so we could continue on to Houston and not miss our plane. We made it to the airport and checked in for our flight. Adventure number two- Dr. Bret Ford, our eye doctor who lives in Kerrville, had flown into Houston earlier in the afternoon. When he went to check in for the flight to Lima, he realized he had brought an expired passport! He spent the night in Houston, his wife overnighted him the correct passport and he is joining us on Sunday I believe. Please pray that he has safe travel. We got to Lima and spent the night on the cold, hard floor of the Lima airport- except for Dr. Gary Mennie, who brought a little bedroll thingy to sleep on- such a smart man. We flew to Juliaca this morning and when we got off the plane, we could see our breath! Yep, it´s cold alright. Gary said when he went through the gate in Lima and the ticket agent saw he was headed to Juliaca, he said ¨Juliaca, it´s too cold there¨:). When we got to Juliaca, we had to wait in a hotel for the strike to end and the roads to open. We arrived in Ayaviri about 3 pm this afternoon. I believe tomorrow is our set up day and then we will start our work.
Please continue to pray for us and I´ll update as often as I can.
Thanks
Becky