Not sure where to start...When Andrea got sick in the north of Peru, we were strongly encouraged to leave the small city of Chulucanas, as soon as we could. And we listened to the advice and left 5 days later for Lima. We had to pick up a bag in Lima and then head on to Chile. We had a flight booked for Tuesday night at ten, but there were some problems with the reservations and we had to look for another flight. As it turned out, we ended up booking the same flight again for ten pm Tuesday night. Yet another time there were problems with the booking of the flight and we ultimately ended up on a flight Wednesday night to Chile. It wasn't until Tuesday afternoon, when our good friend Sarah arrived back in Lima from northern Peru, that we realized why God did not want us on the Tuesday flight to Chile. Right after Sarah got back we took her to the private hospital in Lima. After many tests and waiting, the doctors confirmed that she had pneumonia pretty bad in her right lung. Its too long of a story to write but after 7 hours, communication problems, many tears, and a miracle, we left the hospital with all our problems solved. We could never have done it if we flew out on Tuesday! It was an incredible experience.
We left Wednesday night and flew to Santiago. Spent the night there then headed off to Chillan, which is a few hours south of Santiago. We spent 2 nights there with Andrea's aunt, and then went even more south to Temuco. There we visited a large number of Andrea's family. Then it was back to Chillan for a night, and now we are back in Santiago. For the next 3 weeks we will be helping out in Andrea's aunts bed and breakfast hotel. We were trained today in how to make the beds, do check in's and out's and pretty much everything else you could imagine needs to be done in a hotel! We even learned how to specially fold toilet paper! It was fun. This afternoon we went for a walk around beautiful Santiago! It reminds us of Washington D.C., because the ugly modern buildings are mixed in with the 200 year old archetecture. They have a metro here....we weren't expecting that! Anyways, we look forward to exploring the city and hopefully finding a childrens home to spend our free time at.
After 3 weeks we will head back to Chillan, and maybe back to Temuco, but very briefly because we will then we moving on to Argentina to spend Christmas in Buenos Aires. After Christmas we'll begin helping probably in a small Catholic school there.
Please keep us in your prayers, and all the children in Peru that we miss so much.
-Andrea and Kelli
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