La Paz, Bolivia surprise!

Hello everybody! I figured I would let you know about the unexpected first day in Bolivia. We arrived at 5:30 this morning in La Paz, which is actually the country's capital. As most of you know this was not the final destination of our trip. We are actually headed to Cochabamba to work in the hospital. Basically, the way it was supposed to work was that we purchased a flight from La Paz to Cochabamba when we arrived. However, ALL of the flights were full until 8:30 tonight!! But do not worry!! I am not stuck in the airport for over 12 hours!!Let me tell you a bit about how the Lord provided for myself, Kevin, and Sarah.

Our fourth team member, Rachel, has many connections to Bolivia and actually had already purchased her ticket. Rachel's family knows a missionary family here and they decided they wanted to come help us out at the airport. They were unable to make it, but they sent their missionary friend Kathy in their place. So basically what happened is Kathy first off helped us figure out where to go, what to do, and btw is fluent in Spanish. Long story short we found out there were no available flights until late tonight. Kathy was kind enough to take us on a tour of La Paz, one of the cities I REALLY wanted to see. Well as it turned out she had something she needed to do so she left us with her Bolivian friend at he and his wife's home. I cannot even explain how GREAT it was. I have never had an experience anything like this. He was so kind and friendly. We were able to communicate with him in Spanish as well as bits of English. It was such a great opportunity to experience Bolivia culture. He was even kind enough to make us a special tea that helps with altitude sickness and it TOTALLY worked! We felt so so much better. Then Kathy came back a few hours later and showed us around the market and told us a bit about the culture here.

Right now I can truly say that I am experiencing true hospitality and love as I am sitting on the couch at Kathy's house writing this. The Lord has truly blessed us with this incredible opportunity. We met so many new people and saw one of the coolest cities in the world. He had plans for us the whole time and I am so excited that this trip began in such an amazing adventure! There are pictures up on facebook and I will put a few on here. God is going to do such great things here this summer and I cannot wait to be a part of them! Please pray for us because we are EXHAUSTED from going on 2 days of travel with very little sleep. There is a lot to get used to here. But I will say that I love everything about it and am so excited to be here. God is great and is always watching out for us! Anna
-sorry for terrible punctuation, spelling, grammar, etc...i have slept 3 hours total since yesterday at 6:45am