Day 12

Today started as any other day – off to Crown Bakery for a quick breakfast – however traffic was very heavy so it took twice as long to get there – some of us are struggling with the normal stomach issues that occur when Americans come to teach over in Freetown. After the quick breakfast on to Priscilla Street and the hall for the teaching. The fifteen students did come to the study at the hall and we taught them what they needed to know to obey the gospel and benefits such as prayer and peace if they are children of God. The ladies had good classes with the children. After our break Christian taught a very good lesson on Barnabas. It was a good day session of teaching. John Kabul and his wife did come to the morning session – he is frail – he is suffering from Asthma and the good news is he is still faithful but many hindrances have happened to him and he is meeting with his wife and 4 other members in his home – he remembered that some of the N T congregations met in homes – especially because of persecution – he has suffered persecution that I will deal with in the closing blog of this trip but not spend time now in doing so. After the session we went to Crown Bakery for our “lupper” - then on to the Kona Lodge to catch a quick hour of rest before the teaching for the evening sessions at Priscilla Street. Well, folks we never made it to Priscilla Street. Now – WE ARE ALL OKAY AND NOT HURT IN ANY WAY – our normal driver U K was not here when we were ready to go – so Moses – who had driven for us in 2011 was going to drive us – however the vehicle we have been riding in is a right hand drive vehicle. He just did not seem comfortable in handling the vehicle – as we left he kept going over to the right side of the road – it seemed he could not judge what he was doing – as we were in Tengbehtown going down a hill – he just could not get his bearings – he panicked – thought he was hitting the brakes and actually hit the accelerator and then pushed in on the clutch and would let it out and just panicked – heading right the whole time – I tried to get the gear shift into neutral and fortunately we did get it out of gear – however we sideswiped a truck and then hit a phone pole – the pole bent double and we finally came to a stop – Moses hurt his shoulder – but he was loose headed – he had some type of confusion to hit him – he is a good man but something happened to him. Mitch, Connie and Cindy were in the backseat of the SUV – all okay – just shook up – I was in the front seat – okay – AGAIN WE ARE ALL OKAY – JUST A LITTLE SHAKEN UP – Tengbehtown is not a good place to have an accident – we were immediately surrounded but God was with us and I told one of the first ones there we were Bible teachers – he made that known to others – Mitch took a group of those surrounding us and faked a leg injury to get their sympathy – I took another group and talked with them about that we had two ladies (who we kept in the vehicle) that were upset and Moses our driver was not well – we called Christian – and the Kona Lodge – within minutes Kona Lodge sent a whole force of people including the owner – then Christian came and I do not know how he got there so quick – but he was at the Kona Lodge when we arrived. When we arrived back at the lodge the wife of the owner met us – apologized – all the workers were out front – they apologized – the owner then came back and he apologized again – they could not have been nicer – It was decided that we should not teach tonight as our S L brethren were shook up also. AGAIN – WE ARE OKAY – WE WERE FORTUNATE THAT WE HIT THE POLE AND SLOWED DOWN AND WERE ABLE TO TURN THE VEHICLE OFF AND TAKE THE KEYS – our poor driver Moses was so disoriented. We folks that was our day – a little different than we thought it would be but at the end of the day we can still say – GOD IS GOOD! ALL THE TIME! TODAY – HE REALLY WAS GOOD TO US!