So praise God for giving me legs to walk with and strength to move but let me just tell you about yesterday. Let me tell you a 101 tip that must be taken.
Yesterday was our adventure day and we wanted to go to the top of Momacho one of the volcanos to a great coffee shop and also togo do the Ziplines. As I had just done ziplining with my bestfriend afew weeks before launch I passed on that. But Conner and Rebekah went ziplining. Buy the way we are pros at piling 6 people in a small car now!!!
We had to drop Conner and Rebekah off at the entrance for there papers to sign and get ready to take off. The man that was telling us they would take us up went they were taking Conner and Rebekah for 5 dollars. But we decided to see if we could get our taxi driver to take us. While they where off on their way we where taken by our wonderful taxi driver name Shacon. As we made it to this gate the officer came up and said that the car wouldn’t make it all the way up and that they only let commercial vehicles through. So we just thought oh well we will just hop in with a commercial vehicle. We couldn’t do that either. A lady at the booth with all the activities going on told us that we could pay 5 dollars for someone to take us up there to the cafe. As most of us agreed we would walk cause “for sure it’s not that long of a walk” it was a pretty day and we could see the scene of the park. So we asked how long of a walk would it be and the lady hit us with 51 minutes up and only 2 miles. We gasped but still was thinking it is a beautiful day and it couldn’t be that bad.
About every 15 minutes of constantly asking each driver we saw that was a commercial vehicle, the wind had stopped blowing humidity was 60%, it felt like 100 degrees and we where hiking up a 300 feet elevation volcano.
As we where climbing we where praying that we would get someone to stop and ask or stop and be able to take us up the rest of the way. God blessed us with a illegal taxi that came out of no were. He was coming down from the volcano. So we stopped and asked if he could please take us. Without hesitation he started to turn the car around.
Praising God for this blessing Erica, Ryan ,Brittany and I piled into the car and he took off up the 300 feet elevation volcano. After two minutes his car just couldn’t go anymore. After trying and trying. He kept telling us he would make it but his tires began to smoke and had to stop. We where so grateful for that two minutes but still had alot more walking to do. Huffing, puffing, WE MADE IT!!!!!
While on the walk it took me back to training camp where I didn’t pass my test the first time but while we where heading up that gracious hill I gave everything I had to the Lord. The weight that I was holding on to was the weight that I felt in my heart and weighting me down and I felt like quitting. But as I kept going and made it up the hill I felt the weight in my heart dripping off of me giving it to the Lord. The second time I went up the hill the weight was a bit better. Fast forward to this hill. It felt like the exact thing same elevation same everything the only thing different was the weight I had in my heart. I kept going when it got hard and at a split moment I thanked god for that feeling at training camp VS now. Giving it all to God helped me climb this volcano.
It was an amazing experience and I was very thankful close to the end of it BUT I ALSO KNOW A 101 TIP!!!!!
IF SEVERAL EMPLOYEES TELL YOU THAT IT IS 5 DOLLARS TO GET A RIDE UP TO THE CAFE ……. DO…… IT…… or you will have to go through that 84 degrees really feeling 100, 60%humidity, 300 foot elevation change, 2 miles to the top of a volcano to a coffee shop.
