Saafe Arrival!

We finally arrived in Sierra Leone about 5:00 pm Sierra Leone time Wed. evening. We had delays from Indy – meaning we had only 10 minutes to catch the London plane in of course a gate 20 minutes away. We walked with a great pace and barely made – Mitch was there but had also been delayed. Then we were held up on the tarmac for 40 minutes – this put us late arriving in London. Then we caught a bus to another terminal – back through tight security with only one checking lane open – we all made it okay except that terrorist looking guy from Arizona. They held Mitch up for 45 minutes. We made the flight to Freetown as they were ready to shut the door. Then the fiasco through the Lungi airport is just unexplainable. However, someone donated some old busses to them and instead of walking 100 feet to the terminal you now get the benefit of driving about a half mile out of your way packed like sardines with no air conditioning. We finally got to the Kona Lodge at 10:00 P.M. With 11 pieces of luggage (5 bags of song books and one bag of Bibles and one bag of equipment) we were surprised all the bags made it to Sierra Leone and equally surprised when two bags did not make it across the water on the water taxi. The two bags of course were Connie’s and Cindy’s bags. Well about an hour later they made it across. Our first teaching was tonight – I spoke on “What is worldliness?” Mitch spoke on “The church at Jerusalem”. We had many questions from the full house – The ladies did a great job of meeting the people and getting familiar with the conditions. They will start their teaching on Saturday with a 5 hour session. Already they are making an impression. Cindy helped Solomon – a Catholic who came because he saw us teaching on T V but did not have a Bible find scriptures. He asked some good questions and stated he will be back. We sung out of the song books the congregation at Greenwood sent over. The first song sung – “O worship the King”. Mitch was a natural – he fit right in answering questions and you would think he had been teaching in S L for years. With the ladies and Mitch – I am so excited as they are fitting right in. We went to Crown Bakery and had pizza today – all liked it. Tomorrow night – three more hours of teaching – then we will go to 10 and 11 hour days! God is good! All the time! Today – was not an exception!