Not Mañana

At the start of today we expected to have Mike on his way to Liberia with the plan to pick him up at the airport tomorrow evening. Well, God had a different plan as Mike’s first flight was canceled creating a delay in his trip to leave on Saturday. He will arrive Sunday evening now. We do look forward to seeing him and everyone here is excited to meet him.

The day here was restful, especially for Jenny as she is recovering from her stomach issue. As the day wore on she was feeling better and better to where she was ready to eat some toast and fresh cucumbers. This was the first solid food she ate all day so we were happy to see that. Looks like she’s on her way to a full recovery.

As for me it was a study day for speaking on Sunday. I got a big part of my sermon finished for Sunday morning and I’ll still have to finish it up and complete Sunday nights as well. It’s a good thing to work on when it’s so hot outside that you want to stay out of the sun.

The only activity that Jenny and I did today was to join a premarital counseling session with a group of couples that Emmanuel is doing counseling for. Emmanuel figured we have been married for 36 years so we should have some advice. We ended up having a great time and the couples asked really good questions. Some of their questions were more culturally related so we deferred to Emmanuel and Wintee who chaired the meeting. Here is a picture of the group with us. If you count you’ll not see even numbers and that’s because the lady on the right had her fiancée missing because of work.

We laughed a lot with them. The couple on the far left is Abraham (our driver) and Favor and they will be married on February 29th. I think I mentioned that in an earlier post. The others from left to right are Samuel & Princess, Naomi & Roland and then Comfort. They will be coming back on Saturday night for the next installment of counseling. You never know what you get involved in when you are over here.

Tomorrow is the last day of our kid’s club. I hope Jenny is feeling up to teaching, but I’ll be around to help as needed. We plan on having a treat for the kids of popcorn, suckers and balloons. We were telling Emmanuel about water balloons, but I don’t think we’ll attempt that.

Mike, we’ll continue to pray for your trip and we look forward to seeing you on Sunday.