Buying Tickets in another country another lesson

So....   

    We are invited to attend a training session in Harcov, which is at the other end of our mission.   It will require a 11 overnight train ride.    May I remind you I hate Soviet style trains. 

    Now the advice was get your tickets as soon as possible and purchase all four beds so you don't have to share the berth with strangers all night.

     Since I don't know how to do this, of course I turn to someone to help.   Our young missionaires to teach us the ropes.   Now I love my companion but he is terrible independent and things we can do everything for ourselves.   In fact, he thinks I can do things on the computer even in a foreign language.

     We get to the train station and are told we must buy these tickets on line.   So, I write down the web address come home and experiment with it.   I create logins and I do my best to translate Russian (which turns out to be Ukrainian instead) then I ask for help again.   Again, my independent companion thinks I am bothering the missionaries to much.   Again, I push back and ask for help, and keep asking for help.   We think we have tickets but the dollar amount is very small and we are surprised.  I really do want to attend this training, I really am willing to ride a train, if we miss this it can't be redone.   It's a one time shot.

    Again, I ask for help to clarify, again my companion says....  we bought them and just wait and we will show they our paperwork on the day we are to travel.   Yes, the stubborn wife holds out again and and ignores her companion's leanings.   After much effort of our young missionaries we find out that our "reservations will expire in 2 hours" that our tickets are not yet purchased and that we must do to the train station again to purchase them.

    Now, please don't think I am critizing my companion.  Even though he has tried to mislead me on almost every aspect of this train ticket buying effort.     After all this effort and gentle conflict, a now humbled companion said:  I am glad you listened to the spirit and not to me.   He then reminded me of his setting apart that he was counseled to "listen to his companion". 

I am grateful for the Lord to watch over us in small things and in big things and in foreign countries where we think we are wise and are not.   We aren't in the US, things are done differently here and we need to learn of their ways.