Stolen

Isn't it just like the devil to take a perfectly good day and try to ruin it? Well that's what happened today.

This morning started off great! French toast for breakfast, waking up as late as I want (granted I woke up at 7, but I could've slept later), straightened my hair and got all dressed up for lunch with the girls, had pizza, chicken, fries, and ice cream for lunch... sounds like a great day right?

So we get done with lunch and grab a taxi to head home (taxis here are 14 passenger. more like a bus system that a taxi). But we get into a taxi and a bunch of shady things happen that we didn't put together until later. We end up getting out of the taxi cause it's not going to the right place... We stop at a supermarket to look for some things, and I go to pay for it. My wallet is gone. We meet back up with 2 girls who went a separate way... Emily's wallet is gone. Shortly after that, we realize both of our cameras are gone.

The men in the taxi purposely made us sit apart, they distracted each of us so that we would take our hands off of our bags... It is very frustrating. Both of us lost some money, our IDs, and our debit cards....we are both trying to figure out the best way to proceed with getting money for the rest of our stay, not having cameras and losing our IDs.

Both of us are in good spirits. We are grateful that we and the other girls with us were not physically harmed (much worse things could have happened.), we are grateful that there were other people with us that could pay for our taxi ride home, we are grateful that we weren't carrying more money than we were... We are grateful that God protected us in all the ways that He did.

As I think about what I have lost I am praying that what the enemy has taken, God will give back in His perfect timing.

Thankful that God's hand was on me today...

until all have heard,
lauren michelle gross