Man plans their ways... But it is the Lord who directs your path!

Boy... When I reflected on that verse before this trip... I asked the Lord to guide and direct our path as He saw fit! And that He did!! :) We were supposed to have left Germany at around 755 and we ended up leaving at 915!! The pilot didn't feel comfortable flying that particular plane into the kind of weather that Ekat was experiencing! So we waited! We finally got into the plane and flew the 5 hours to Ekat!! It took me awhile to wind down so I played some puzzles and chatted with Bailey on that flight! We both finally fell asleep for about and hour and half and woke up to the pilot making the all call that due to fog we were having to wait to land! We circled Ekat for approximately 30-40 minutes THEN had to fly about 40 minutes away to Ufa! When we landed there they were having heavy snow so we had to wait till they de-iced the plane! For which they had no de-icing stuff?!? How does an airport in winter in RUSSIA not have de-icing materials!!??? Well alrighty then!! Haha!!

Once we waited there about 4 hours on the plane... They just decided to go ahead due to the many delays to go try to fly back Ekat!! We finally arrived in Ekat at about 1130!!

As soon as you land you have to get all your documents in order and go through passport control! There were about 2 full planes from Beijing and another country and we girls were being made pretty uncomfortable! The nice passport control lady told all these men to let us go ahead and leave us alone so after a little over an hour we it through passport control to get our luggage! Then through the final security to FINALLY see Jesse and Olga our sweet translator!!

WHEW!!!

Needles to say... We were exhausted!!

Through all of that... We knew that for whatever the reason or reasons there may be... The Lord directed our path!! We had plans for Sunday!! That changed! We were supposed to head to the church right after we landed... And we finally were able to get out of the airport after this church service had ended!! We know that everything happens for a reason and is ultimately for a greater purpose!!!

We are thankful for the Lord's protection, His provision, and His plan! And we're thankful to finally be out of an airplane... And to finally get some rest!

After a sweet time of fellowship with Pavel last night we were able to get some sleep!! I had never been so thankful for a bed!! After 53 hours of being awake with 5 hours intermittently being asleep... We rested!! Thank you Jesus!!!