This post is basically a plea for prayer while we’re getting ready to leave. It never ceases to amaze me all the imaginative ways our lives get interrupted by chaos. Currently, the well water at the place where we’re living has been muddy, and getting worse, ever since Lance’s trip to Thailand. It used to be only every few days, but now it’s muddy every day until it clears up around evening. We lost the water in the kitchen from the pipes clogging, and then the water started not clearing up at all, necessitating showers and laundry being done at someone else’s house last week. Thankfully we’re traveling this week saying good-bye to grandparents and family while the owners try to fix the problem. It would be awesome to be able to shower and do laundry at the house the last week we’re there, so please pray the problem is solved when we return.
Another twist, late last week we received an email letting us know one flight on our itinerary was cancelled and they had rescheduled us for the next flight adding a 24 hour layover in S. Korea and arriving a day later. Because of people’s current reticence to fly, our airline started cancelling flights every other day and ours was one of the casualties. We can’t arrive a day later because we have reservations for a week, before we get into our house, that will be cancelled and not refunded, along with numerous meetings scheduled for the day after we arrive to register with the government etc. Lance called and switched our flight to the day before, thus giving us one less day to pack (trying not to panic here) but getting us there before we start to have all sorts of problems. Inconvenient and frustrating, but not a tragedy. Unfortunately, two days ago Lance received another email stating that our flight was still for a day later rather than when we need it to be. Multiple calls to the company that booked our flight haven’t resolved anything yet except a note on our file saying it’s important we get the earlier flight. They told us to call back in 48 hours for an update as they can’t reach our airline by phone either, since every company is having the same problem.
So, actually, while March 14 was originally our leaving date, now its our approximately-around March 14th leaving date. Please, please, pray this gets resolved without us losing a lot of money because we get to Thailand a day too late.
Thanks for your prayers. We’ll keep you updated as things develop.
– Ruth, for the Baker family.
Update
So, since our Thailand visas expire if we don’t arrive within one month, and we have other meetings and reservations made that won’t be reimbursed if we don’t show up, we are now looking up alternate routes and flight options in an effort to keep our original plans. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Thanks!