We’ve made it down through the Mexican/American border, through major cities in Mexico, Guatemala (and the village where the woman and her husband were healed), El Salvador, and Honduras. The border to get into Honduras was rough. We stayed there over night after doing the run-around for about 4 hours, hopping from one “office” to the next, trying to get the big RV registered.
A select few of us stayed in a hotel right there at the border overnight so that we could finish the paperwork in the morning. After another cold-water bucket bath, Phil sat inside of his hotel reading the Bible while a few truckers chatted outside in line for the bathroom. It seemed like they were having fun, and Phil enjoyed hearing them laughing and joking in Spanish. But one of the other teammates informed Phil that the truckers were talking about how many prostitutes they had slept with on their trucking journey.
The recent memories of scantily clad women with umbrellas at a truck stop at three in the morning in Mexico, and a girl climbing into the passenger’s side of a semi-truck in Guatemala came rushing back to Phil’s mind. Sex trafficking has been traveling with us the whole time.
After our papers were settled by a hefty sum of money under the table, we were stopped three more times by random police blockades before we could reach the Nicaraguan border, probably because we were an American RV caravan. They nitpicked about things like not wearing shoes while we’re driving, and asked us for more money under the table. In some instances, even though we explained that our travels were to bring hope to Latin America, we had no choice but to pay the bribe.
We’ve made it into Nicaragua now as well, and it seems so much more civilized, even just a border away. The heat is penetrating, and the entire team is traveling with sweaty arms, necks, faces, and feet. The schedule for us is intense, and we have very little time in each city. Pray for us that we will soon have a great rest, and that God will regenerate us in this time of exhaustion.
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