I packed my 2 huge bags and 1 carry on just praying that I had not forgotten anything important. One of my bags weighed a little under 50 pounds and one weighed a little more than 50 pounds. TACA airlines was generous to me and considered it balanced and did not charge me any over weight fees. I had some tense moments when the basket carrying my laptop computer hit the floor as I was going through security. It took about 30 minutes to get the computer to come on and repair itself, but it eventually did. I was laying hands on it and praying. It really is not that far from Houston to Guatemala City--around 1300 miles, which is less than from Houston to Boston. If it had been a direct flight, it would been less than 3 hours. This plane, however, stopped in Belize and again in San Salvaldor, El Salvador. I changed planes in San Salvador for a 30 minute flight to Guatemala City.

One of the missionaries met me at the airport and took me to my new home. It was about 10:00 at night by the time we got there and I was exhausted and didn't look around much. The missionary--Penny Stamps lives in Antigua so she spend the night with me and took me to the orientation sessions the next day.