Adaptability

When I took the StrengthsFinder test several years ago, adaptability came to the top of the list. Seriously, that has come in handy the last few days. I came on this trip not exactly sure what i'd be doing when i got here, and even the first few days I was frustrated with what was going on...but the last few days have been full of changes! I have been forced to change my plans and expectations multiple times a day. I am learning very quickly what it really means to adapt! God has been revealing so many other things to me this week as well...it's hard to believe that I have been away from my home for a week now! It was only last Saturday that i was waiting anxiously at the airport for President Obama to go away...I saw Air Force One out the window on the same tarmac space as my plane!!! I aksed the ticket lady several times...will I make my connection in Chicago? She said, "Ma'am I cannot control the President of the United States!" I told her I wasn't expecting that but I NEEDED to get to Chicago! It's funny now but at the time I was not happy:)

So after one week we are tired and still wondering how all of this will come together and get done. Wondering why God send us here to rescue children. It's a huge responsibility! But we are trusting!

We drove by CrowBay, the worst slum area in Freetown, a place that I did not see last year. One of these days soon we will drive through it and see what it is like but it is a garbage dump filled with tents and 3000 men, women, and children. Just seeing it from a distance I know that it is one of the most horrible places on this earth. Tonight I am falling asleep with those children who live there on my mind. I pray that somehow, someway, we might also be able to rescue some of themn too.