Dear Family and Friends,
Things are beginning to calm down and so I will share for those of you who have asked. My leg is healing, I think! I’m not sure because it still hurts and I don’t really take the time to put it up. I think it’s healing because I am walking with not as much as a limp (I hope)! I do have to bend down a lot and maybe it is stretching my leg with exercises that it needs. LOL!
Our last update on Saturday was still very difficult in many ways and I am sure will continue to be so until we are here long enough for us to become familiar with what is happening. Praise God, He gives us grace to go through each thing. As I read in 2 Corinthians, Paul prayed for something to be taken away that bothered him and the Lord said, “My grace is sufficient for you and my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, he decided to glory in his weakness because he was made strong in Christ’s strength! Having said that, we praise God that He gives us strength to go through each day…sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof! By night time we are ready for bed and pray the next day will be better!
Sunday, I was able to make it to church…what a blessing to be in church after being gone for 3 weeks. Pastor Gbaquoi made the comment as I was headed into the church, “Thank God, Oma is here!” LOL! Well, I was thanking God, too! The walk down the hill then back up was hard on my leg but at least I was able to make it. After church, we rested for a bit and Mark even turned on the generator so we could get cooled off with the fan! Another blessing and praise…even the small things are huge to us at times! After our nap, we went to the next town over to see if they were selling any rice of any kind. They weren’t but we found a couple of things we could eat and also give one of our security guys as he was staying with us. It was kind of scarce on the food but, praise God, He helped us through with the food we did have! What a lesson on asking God to provide our daily bread. Soon it was time to go to church for the evening service. Earlier in the day, a soccer game had started (football for those in England) and it was still going on by the time it was time for church. To understand what happened, we have to explain the layout of everything. Our house is on a hill, below the house are many trees with most of them towering over the house. Past the trees is a field where everyone plays soccer/football and on the other side of the field is the church. Now the grass was down for the field where the soccer game was going on but on either side the grass was pretty tall. I am still leery of going into tall grass because of the snakes! So as we left the house, with the spectators by the trees, by our house, by the church and everywhere where there was a place to sit, and suddenly…the game was no longer important! The spectators of the game became the spectators of the white people headed down the hill! The whistle blew and the game stopped!
But wait, there’s more!
