Merci, merci!!!! :)

Well, I finally made it back to Bongolo.  Long story short....I decided to fly from Libreville to Bongolo and vice versa to "save time."  Normally, I guess it's about a ten hour drive, which means it's about an hour flight.  Simple enough, right? 

Today, it was a get picked up at 10 a.m. by Philipe to drive about two hours to the airport, which is normal and then proceed to wait for about four and a half hours, make the short flight, which for a few minutes, I thought I was going to die, but thankfully made it back to Libreville about 6:30ish.  It was a long day, but made for great time at the airport to read my Bible and spend some time with God thinking about all the things He's been teaching me. 

I can't believe I'm down to only a copule of days already.  Tomorrow morning, we're going to Hope House, the abandoned children's home and then to the beach, weather pending.  It's the rainy season.  Hot, humid and wet weather that this girl does not particularly care for.  But such is life.

Anyhow, thank you, thank you, thank you for your prayers.  My time here has been such a blessing and calling it amazing is an understatement.  There are so many people here who love the Lord and are faithfully and selflessly serving Him, both missionaries and local Gabonaise people.  I'm so blessed. 

Am I dreaming?! Someone pinch me!

Today is day five and I still can't believe I'm actually in Africa.  It's unreal.  It has been interesting to say the least.  I've met lots of new people and seen a couple of the clinics that the Gabonaise run here in Libreville.  We did mobile clinics on Tuesday and Wednesday with people from the Alliance church.  I've had the chance to get to know Hannah and Leanne, Envision workers in Libreville, as well as CHristy, who is an intern at Hope House.

Tomorrow morning they are going to drop me off at the airport to head to Bongolo until next Friday.  I'm a little nervous since I only know "Bonjour" and "Bien" in French.  I just don't think saying "hello" and "fine" will do much for me if I have any problems.  But they are sending me with a phone and people to contact if I have problems.  (Don't worry Mom!  Or Shelly!!!) 

Enough for now, just wanted to update quick and say hi and thank you for all your prayers.  I can tell so many of you are praying.

Good nite from Africa!  :)

Rounding off!

Well, I'm still not totally packed yet, but just wanted to post once more before I go....

I have been overwhelmed today and yesterday with phone calls, texts and people asking me if I got my documents and telling me how excited they are for me and reminding me they're praying for me.

My church is having it's annual mission's conference weekend where a missionary couple comes and speaks through various events.  Tonight was the "international dinner" and the couple spoke about their lives and how they were called to missions.  It was soooooo encouraging!  They had a great message too about not carrying my culture stuff into the culture I'm going into.  He talked about being a "square" in a "circle" culture and how I need to "round off my corners" so I'm not as square because I won't be in a square culture.  (Kind of one of those 'you had to be there' type analogies...)  Anyhow, I'm probably going to be up way later than I wanted to because I waited so long to pack, but it was so worth it!  Thank you Bonnie and Virgil Adams!!!

I'm getting anxious to see what the Lord has in store!!!  I begin to wonder what this trip will lead to....

I'm not sure if I'll be able to update while I'm gone or not, but one way or another, you'll hear from me soon!  :)