February 21st

Travel day.

After going to bed late with the plan to leave early this morning I woke up around 6:30 for family devotions with Pastor Dennis and family. Afterwards I waited for the rest to get up. When I went to bed I heard them still going over the Women of Purpose information. I have no idea when they finished.

We finally said our goodbyes and hit the road around 10:00 a.m. Beside the goat in the back of the van we had 2 other people that wanted a ride so Emmanuel agreed to this. One man, Peter, was traveling back to school in Kakata and the other, Pastor Joe, the soap maker, traveled all the way back to Emmanuel’s house. With a couple of stops along the way and with each bad bump in the road causing the goat to scream out we actually made good time. I was reminded of the screaming goat videos on YouTube every time the goat reminded me he was in the back. I was happy it wasn’t a pig as they would smell much worse. This goat didn’t even make the van stink.

We came home, had a quick meal and headed over to prayer meeting at church. At the end of the service I was able to sing ‘I’ll Fly Away’ with the Jonah family. We sang that song in 2012 as we welcomed the rest of the CBC team to Monrovia. It was fun to sing this again with them.

Now it is dark and even though all we did was travel I am quite tired.

As for the goat, tomorrow will be a celebration meal with fresh meat on the table. I guess I’ll be trying a new meat since I’ve never eaten goat before.