Saturday November 28 th

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving with no thoughts of me sitting in the hospital eating caned peaches.  I thought I would start trying to build a little sympathy for poor me.  I hope that didn't work because I had a wonderful Thanksgiving I was in the hospital but Sharen went back to the apartment and had Sonja's family and Jessica's family Sharen stayed in our apartment with grand kids and the kids came to the hospital to see me She stayed at the apartment over night and left me with no one to bug me all night so over all a nice Thanksgiving.  Other good news they think we can go home Monday this stay was not expected and it's wonderful to have an end date.  Of course things can change on a dime, but this time I am starting to feel healed keep that in prayer for us.

 

Years ago Sharen myself and Mike and Linda K were youth leaders and we as a group decided on a mission project which was to go to New Mexico and work on an Indian reservation.  I'm still not why we world go so far but thanks to leaders being young we were up to the task.  first thing to do is plan on how to get there so the church let us use the beater bus that the church owned I hope.  so started cleaning and removing the normal bus seats and replace with seats from an old Gray hound bus and build a room for a porta pody and some tables we thought that would make the trip shouter.  Then we put at last 200 pounds of paint on the bus.  Then we had Paul check the mechanical condition and his opinion was the engine might not make the trip so he agreed to rebuild I remember for free but we could have got some parts needed.  So the big day was on and on Friday night we were off.  So to speak the deal was to go straight through with minimum stops and keep changing drivers so one more detail we needed drivers licences for drivers.  we read books and got the check list and we all passed then we were on the road. so we were going very well I got first drive at about 1 AM couldn't.t drive any more so Mike took over and I got in back to sleep I discovered I could not sleep in a moving vical and why I continued to try it all of a sudden it got very quite which meant the bus stoped in sight of the St louse arches.  So first time under the hood at 2 am near the arches.  Also first known miracle of Trip Dewayne B.  whose Dad ran a garage thought to bring some spear parts and he had a set of points so we got it running and off we went Next stop was 30 miles outside of Hayes Kansas still no good sleep but the bus stooped and the clutch would not come up as luck would have it was a 24 hour truck stop we all got out and pushed the bus into parking lot ask if the 24 hour guy could help us he got into the seat and the bus would move a few feet so things continue to be good.  However after several trips up and down it wasn't looking good Kids and adults become concerned I noticed a truck pull up with two men drinking beer the driver got out and walked over to the bus and asked in a commanding voice who is responsible for this so I stepped forward and happened to see his hat and what do you know he was the sheriff so he lead me away from the bus and said if there is anyway we could get the bus going go on down the road Because this 24 guy didn't have a clue.  Mike and I looked at the clutch pedal got a small rope tied it to the clutch peddle it seemed to work so off we go to hays Kan. I held the rope Mike drove on to Hayes 30 or forty miles down the road Stoped to check the phone book for truck repairer on the weekend found one parked in tuck lot by that time it was 3 AM I got up from rape detail told kids to turn off their Walkmans and go to sleep.  They could not believe we were going to spend the rest of the night seeping on the bus not moving I informed them that was the plan all along only we were going to keep rolling.

 

sorry for the length of this but I could continue later if anyone wants to read about the rest of the story.

 

Please continue to pray for us and may God continue to Bless Us all.