The Never Ending Trip :) Part 1

Ok so I am a little behind on my blogging... not used to this thing :) So I have officially been in South Korea for the last...5 or so days. And so far it has been an adventure. I actually started traveling Tue. 13, I was able to get a overnight layover in atl :) That was a blessing because the girls were able to visit me from Wildwood. It was such a blessing to see them. Even though it was only a few hours, not enough to truly spend quality time with all of them I was so happy to see each and everyone of them.

My flight came in around 8pm and The girls kept on getting lost so they didn't actually pick me up until 9:30 pm. The ride to Elvir's house was an adventure to say the least. We missed a few turns had to do a few strange maneuvers in the airport (Raven :P) but then finally we were on the road. I asked if we could go to Taco Bell so that I could eat my last 7 layer before I left the country ;) We did hung out for a little bit. Then when we were leaving right when Val was about to get on the main road ( we were on 2 different cars so that we could all fit) She gets pulled over by a cop!! Mind u it was like 11pm so we all got very scared! They pulled into a parking lot and the girls in my car we started praying for the Lord to give Val the right words. In all honesty we didn't know why she had gotten pulled over. After a few min. the officer walks back to his car with what seemed like Val's Id he then returned it to Val and got back in his car and left. We didn't hear the story of what happend( a good one at that)until we reached Elvi's house. Then again we were off. As we continued on our way ( we only had like 5 min left before we reached Elvi's house) we kept on seeing more and more police cars, we felt that something was up but we didn't know what. Then we run into A ROAD BLOCK!! YES!!! MORE COPS!! They asked for Yudelis's ID and then we all continue on our way... We were getting close to a light when Val moves over to the right lane. Yudelis was about to move over as well but she is stopped by what she saw in the review mirror. It was a high speed chase heading straight for us!! We all start screaming in our car because Val is in the lane that the cars are speeding in. She slightly moves over and the 2 cars invade her lane without touching her! It was as if they hadn't seen her. Again, all you hear is us girls screaming in the second car. Val and Elvir didn't know how close it had been until we were able to tell them.

We finally get to Elvir's house we say hi to the family and we finally head off to one of the rooms to just spend some time together talking and what not. Then we get to hear the Val's story. When she got pulled over it was because of a brake light. When the officer ask her for her Id she starts looking for it in her wallet. She looks and looks and doesn't find it... ( the girls in our car while that was happening were saying that she might not have her ID. I was like naa she can't be that crazy come all this way just to see me with no ID!!) She finally tells the officer that she doesn't have the ID, and she continues to tell him that the reason why she is in atl is because she had come down with a group of friends to visit their friend that was heading off to South Korea as a missionary (me :) When she says that he says really my wife was a missionary kid when she was growing up, and that leads to Val saying well actually all of us are medical missionaries... long story short the officer only asked for her date of birth and let her leave with a warning ( that he never actually wrote up). CRAZY!! God's protection was something fierce!! After those incidents I totally new that The Lord was with us and that he was with me on my trip to South Korea.

We finally went to sleep around 2 to then get up around 5am and I was at the airport by 6am and off to chicago to catch another plane to Narrita Japan. Aleady In just the trip in the states I was already seeing God's hand. The Lord had also allowed me to see my best friends from college and from wildwood before I left ( as if saying enjoy cause your going to be in the desert for a while)...