In late December 2020, despite all the odds of it happening, Clark Fork Seventh-day Adventist Church members James Hunt and Yvonne Eller Hunt took off from Idaho for a two-week mission trip to Mexico. They flew to Cancun and were picked up by a local Adventist bus driver who lent his 30-passenger bus at no cost other than fuel.
The pair traveled to Playa del Carmen, about 40 miles to the south. They were joined by several family members, but this was no ordinary Christmas reunion. The group was housed in a school, where they could spread out their sleeping bags.