This path God has been leading me on…has been…refining. I don’t like to fail, I like to succeed and succeed well at everything I do. And so the realization that I was not going to be able to go to India and that there was nothing that I could do about it, forced me to realize that need and fall on God and listening for His voice instead of forcing my own ways. Of course that whole process of getting both the Sierra Leone and India visa was chaos. I spent numerous hours, a lot of money, lost one passport, and lost nights of sleep worrying over the situation. God showed me that he can make things happen but he also has the power to take it away (something we rarely recognize.)
Then by the power of God alone, Courtney surprised Matt and I in the airport and hour before boarding the plane. Recently we had come to the conclusion that Courtney would not be able to come because her second passport was lost in the mail and she was not able to obtain a visa. Amazingly, she received a emergency visa within hours and was given the go ahead to get on the plane and the visa would be handled upon getting to Sierra Leone. Another way God showed his power. We arrived in Freetown and went right through security because of the connections the COTN has with the natives.
Obstacle #2 all 6 of our bags get lost. We were told that our carry on’s needed to be checked in because of space and so the only things we had were the cloths we were wearing, a couple books, and our medications. We arrived in Freetown at 3:00am and did not leave until 7:00am waiting to make sure we would be notified when our bags returned. But again God showed His glory. None of us were upset. We were so glad to be there that the bags did not even seem to matter. God will provide our every need.
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