Day 6

As I write this, it is after 3:30 AM. Yesterday (Friday) was such a busy day that I even forgot to post about things when I went to bed, only to I remember in the middle of the night, so here goes in a shorter, somewhat groggy review of a great day.

Friday morning seemed to start things a little later as Leo and I had time to head out in the community for a long walk. We simply kept taking different roads (trails in some cases) until we realized we should head back since Leo was doing the devotional for WOP and we didn’t want him to be late. It was after 8:00 AM when we turned around, remembering most turns and we made it back. Here’s a few pictures of things we saw.

When we got back breakfast was ready and Renee was up and ready. We ate and Leo waited for his turn to share the devotional.

Leo finished, I took a baby from one of the ladies to help her and we headed down to Leo’s care of the garden. Here are a few pictures of this and the baby ‘Emmanuel’ as we helped out.

Our afternoon seemed to go slow and relaxed as I read through my notes for the final class on Biblical Counseling. Emmanuel had mentioned that he wanted to visit a lady from church whose foot was hurt and made it difficult to walk. So, around 2:00 PM he says let’s go. He says it is nearby when I mentioned we start the class in 2 hours. It turns out it wasn’t so close, but it was great to go. Leo and Daniel (one of the school teachers and ‘son’ of Emmanuel & Wintee) came along as well. I didn’t get a picture of the lady, Deborah, but I did get a picture of where we stopped and walked the rest of the way.

We visited with Deborah for awhile and prayed with her and headed back, making it in enough time for me to shower before the class.

The last class went well and we were all informed we were to be part of the WOP celebration following the class. The ladies, who were from chapters of WOP all over Liberia, were all getting together to celebrate their accomplishments that Renee had taught them.

These ladies were a happy bunch as speeches of appreciation were given. There were gifts given out to all of us during this celebration time, followed by music and dancing.

We’ll have to share some of the videos of the speeches and dancing later as uploading videos here takes longer.

We followed this up with a meal on the porch of American type pizza and fritters with hot pepper sauce on the side. (This may explain my waking up in the middle of the night.)

The music and celebrating continued in the yard as everyone ate and danced around, enjoying the completion of a long, intensive week of training.

The celebration for us three Americans was the ability to go to bed to get needed sleep.

Now as I finish this ‘later’ update, I look forward to a relaxing day without any classes or responsibilities…yet.