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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

It is Official....STRIKE

Are you praying?
We just got word today that the strikes are on for sure. The first begins on the 9th and the other begins on the 13th. They are both indefinite which means they could go on for quite some time. During these type of strikes there is no travel in or out of the city, no market (no food to buy etc). For these reasons we are leaving Yurimaguas on the 8th and will have to stay in a hotel in Tarapoto until the date of our tickets (25th). It won’t be cheap but we really have no choice. This way we will be able, Lord willing, to make it to Lima for our international flight on the 28th. We would fly to Lima right away except we have tickets and they are not changeable. We would have to buy new ones which would not be cheap buying them now at the last minute.
Please pray for our safety as we cross over the mountains. We have had lots of rain. There have been numerous landslides. Pray, too, for those people stuck in Yurimaguas that this strike will not last too long nor will there be any violence.

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