Success!

Note: Scroll down to the entry on December 7 if you wish to read about my trip to West Africa sequentially.

They say if you accomplish one thing in Monrovia, it's a good day. In that case, yesterday was dramatically successful.

We managed to pick up our airline tickets at the DHL office—nothing like getting those on the morning before takeoff. We went to the Brussels Airline office and confirmed our flight. We stopped by the World Hope office and found some young men to repair the sewage pipe that had been stolen the night before. We dropped by the Bible Society and saw some of the material they were providing for Liberians. We visited the Wesleyan Bible College where the Marshall's neighbor Lemuel is president—what a wonderful man and what an inspiring endeavor! We ate a delicious baked chicken dinner. I learned a new game from the neighborhood kids. Plus we caught our flight to Brussels.

Right now I'm snuggling under luscious covers in this 5-star hotel in one of Europe's wealthiest cities, but I miss little Sam's smile. Maybe we'll go back next year.