Day 27, February 6th, 2012

Day 27- Monday, February 6th, 2012. 

Today was I think the longest day I have ever had since I got her to Panama. I hung out with the guys in the morning, doing absolutely nothing, just chilling. Then I figured well, I still need to catch a bus to Rio Serreno and the last bus from there back home is at 5. So I should go. So I walked down to where the bus passes, I went into the store picked out a lemon tea and waited. I waited for about 2 hours. I thought that maybe the bus was just late or something. A brother from the Spanish named, Alex, rode his bike back. And told me he didn't think any busses were working that day because of the road. Apparently not only did they block the road after Volcan but before it too, right by Santa Clara. So the busses couldn't get from where I need to be to Volcan, even if they wanted too. The only way for me to get home would be to get a bus to a different town called Caizan and walk from their to Monte Lirio. The bus wasn't leaving for a while. So I went to get some food and got to talk to my sister and my Mama Llama. :) I assured them this whole mess was NOT near us, it wasn't even in Volcan. They were ok after that. After I finished talking with them and eating. I walked over to the bus stop. The bus was there but we had to wait for the driver to come back, we waited around an hour. But it was ok, I got to translate the first page of the Sunday talk. :) Plus figure out exactly what I wanted to do with my talk on Thursday. We finally got on the road. I say a sign that said. "Monte Lirio" with an arrow. I went to get off but just to be sure I asked the bus driver if that was the right road to get to Monte Lirio. They all pretty much thought I was crazy for wanting to walk there and asked me why I was walking to Monte Lirio. I told them it was because there were no busses in Volcan. So they were like Hecha la vida! Which is the saying here…its weird. Anyways, they told me that was the impresa for Monte Lirio. But to walk there I had to go somewhere else. I sat backdown and they dropped me off at a different place. They said its this road. So I paid got off the bus and started walking. About an hour after walking on this road. I began to pray. Please just let a random shepard boy or a car pass so I can ask them if I am going the right way. I said Amen took 2 more steps and I saw a guy walking my way. THANK YOU JEHOVAH!! When I passed him I asked if this was the way to Monte Lirio. And he was like… Uhh… yeah but its far. I said how long? He said Well…probably about an hour….in a car… he gave me very country like directions. "Walk down this road for a long while, then the road is going to fork, one way goes to the left and up, the other way goes to the right and down. Don't go up, you want to go down. Its gonna be really steep there, but you can do it. Then when you get to the bottom your gonna cross a river. I think they still have the bridge there, if not be careful! You'll want to maybe put your bag on your head when you cross. Then you have to walk up…Its a long way up. Once you get up you have to walk a long way forward. But stay on this road. Don't make any turns, this will take you to Monte Lirio." haha. I was like ok! :) And he was right! A LONG WHILE!! I had gotten off the bus at 5 and it took me hiking down and then up the mountain for about 3 hours before I could recognize where I was. I had still about an hour or two to walk back, but hey at least I knew where I was! :) Luckily I had packed my flashlight that BASIL got me!! THANKS BASIL!! That saved me after about 2 ½ hours of hiking I need to use it. I kept walking for about an hour. Meanwhile it became pitch black outside. Like…everyone in a city has no idea how dark it was here. Not even in Red Bluff (holla!) Does it get this dark. This is jungle dark people, were talking, only if you have a flashlight can you see in front of you. Only if you have a flashlight can you see all the eyes of all the animals looking at you. We are talking DARK people. Like… ok I got it! Like the color of the ocean water…at night. Its black! But at least I knew where I was!! I was super excited about being able to recognize where I was. But even after known where I was I still had at least an 2 ½ hours to walk home. AT LEAST! Then all of a sudden I heard a truck coming so, I kept walking and got to the side of the road. It was going really fast when I passed I realized it was a bus. I was about to say WAIT! When I heard. "STOP!" from inside the bus. The money guy opened the door and said 'Get in sister.' He recognized me from service. THANK YOU JEHOVAH! I road the bus for about 30 minutes, and they turned the lights on, I was the closest they could get me. Now I only had about ½ hour to walk to the house. I went to pay and the kid goes. "Don't worry, jut walk fast. Cause you have a long way to go" So I got off and started walking down Hill #1 of 5 to the house. The family called then to ask where the heck I was and they came and met me about half way with the truck. I finally got home close to 9. The family wanted to know my adventure. They were all amazed I walked home so fast. Apparently it was supposed to take longer to walk all that way. ha! Imagine!! Anyways, I had a little dinner, watched some 'Combate' helped de shell some beans and went to bed! That's my adventure for today…But there are things that happened that I wasn't aware of. And this is what they are: After I left Volcan, a crowd of indigenous people walked into town and set fire to 3 government buildings and 1 car. These people aren't playing around! The meetings and service have been temporarily suspended in Volcan and Rio Sereno. The Circuit Overseer called brother Pedro later when I was already there. And he said if things continued to get worse, the branch will suspend the route for this year, and most likely strong suggest that everyone visiting here on the route go home. I'm praying it doesn't come to that. But it gave me a lot of things to think about, in correlation to what I would do. LOTS TO THINK ABOUT! That's all the intense adventures for today though. Goodnight Day 27!