Friday, Nov. 22, 2019
When our travels started on Wednesday from
Masbate, we made it to Manila and expected to get to Tuguegarao by that
afternoon. We were supposed to start lectures there on Thursday going through
Friday. On Saturday, we were scheduled to fly back to Manila where we would
stay the night before Jonathan and I would preach at the Pasay congregation on
Sunday. However, all of that got changed on us while awaiting the flight to
Tuguegarao.
While waiting for boarding our plane to
Tuguegarao on Wednesday, a typhoon was moving through Tuguegarao and the flight
was canceled. All preparations had already been made, so Rody held a gospel
meeting yesterday in my place. Rody reported on Wednesday that many visitors
from all around Luzon had already arrived in Tuguegarao despite worsening
weather from the typhoon. (He may be
continuing the meeting today, but I have not heard anything about results yet.)
When the flight was canceled, Jonathan, Nanette
and I sat down and called Rody to get the news to him as quickly as possible.
We then went over our options for travel and work. I had under-estimated the
costs we would have as prices have risen far more than I thought, so I had no
funds available for arranging additional lectures, nor could we have arranged
any on such short notice. Jonathan had work he needed to do in the Bicol region
in scouting a venue for a meeting there next month, so he left to do that. I
looked up prices for hotels near the meeting place in Pasay and found a very
good deal for three nights to extend the reservation I already had prepaid for
Saturday. Then I will move to another hotel near the airport that I had prepaid
until my departure Tuesday, the Lord willing.
