Our month in Nigeria started out a little bumpy, literally. The director of the orphanage, Kenny, picked our team up in Lagos, Nigeria in the orphanage’s van. This was probably the most “legit” vehicle any of us had ridden in on the World Race so far. It even had air conditioning! About an hour or so into our “3 hour” van ride the back passenger side tire blew out on the highway. Luckily, Kenny had a spare tire and with the help of a friendly local, who had pulled over to help us, the spare was put on and we were back on the road. Then about an hour later the air conditioning stopped working, which was not a problem for us because the majority of vehicles we’ve ridden in have been without A/C. However, Kenny wanted the best for us, so we stopped again to try and have the A/C fixed, but they didn’t have the parts we needed.
At about hour 4 of our “3 hour” van ride, the spare tire popped. Kenny insisted that we were just outside of town so we drove on the popped spare tire at about 10mph for 20 minutes. During this time Amy and Katie started singing worship songs and we all joined in. I love the go-with-the-flow attitude we have all adopted. There is so much more joy and peace in trusting that God is in control and will provide. Then right there on the side of the road there was a pile of tires for sale! We were on our way again and made it safely to the orphanage…7 hours, not bad J
