Day 10

It is hard to believe how fast the time is going. Today we all thought it may be a day to prepare for travel. We will leave for Yekepa early tomorrow morning. Of course we’ll have one or two stops along the way, but the plans are to be in Yekepa in the afternoon so Renee can meet with WOP and start some sewing training. This will continue through Thursday and we will stay for two nights at ABC University.

As I said, I thought we’d prepare for the trip, Renee working on a quilt, Leo making a couple of loom frames and I would have the opportunity to visit with some others here that I haven’t had time to just sit down and talk. Well, Emmanuel…seems like the plans always change with this start to a sentence. Well, Emmanuel teaches at Liberia Baptist Bible Seminary on Tuesdays. He asked this morning if we’d come to the school for their chapel service after he teaches his class. Chapel begins at 11:00 AM, and of course we are honored to go there. I’ve had the privilege of preaching at the chapel service in the past and I really do enjoy visiting the campus. So we enjoyed our breakfast of pancakes and enjoyed visiting with each other until it was time for us to leave. We needed to leave shortly after 10:00 to be there on time.

I forgot to mention that we had rain during the night. It rained really hard, and if you remembered, we didn’t have AC or fans. The night was a little muggy in our rooms, but it was nice to hear the rain. The rain actually was on and off during the day. Leo got the day off from watering the garden.

We all enjoyed seeing the Seminary. We arrived in time to visit a few people and then head to chapel.

On our way back to Emmanuel’s home we needed a few things so we stopped at the market. Renee had plans, so her and Philip headed out to get the things she needed. Leo wanted a couple of shirts and possibly some shorts for going to ELWA next week where we can go swimming in the Atlantic Ocean. Leo and I wandered around the busy market and after a while, Leo found what he wanted. I didn’t take pictures at the market because it was so busy.

We headed home to palm butter soup over rice. We ate our fill and then some GB was brought up. Leo and I had this. I’ll fill you in more another day. We didn’t eat until around 2:00 PM. At our late lunch it started raining real hard again. Not to regular at this time of year.

After lunch is when Leo and Renee got busy with their projects. I took care of a few things that I needed to do and then Leo and I headed down to hand out some candy treats. Leo had licorice and I had tootsie pops. Of course we had everyone come around us as they realized we were handing out candy.

A little later Emmanuel returned from preparing to leave in the morning with a couple going through premarital counseling. Well, Emmanuel said I and Herrietta Bestman, a lady from church and the preschool teacher, should help out with this counseling. We went into the conference room and began. As we were going through this Mother Wintee came in to say there was an emergency with a woman with high blood pressure and Renee, Emmanuel and Wintee left to take her to the hospital. Leo may have gone along, I’m not sure. Herrietta and I were left to finish the counseling session. There were 2-3 sections left and of course one of them was titled bedroom / sex management. So, sometimes being a Pastor gets you prepared to handle whatever comes up. The couple was really sweet and it was good time of training.

We do pray for the lady with the medical emergency and I’ll update you tomorrow. We leave early in the morning. Pray for our trip and this lady.