Friday morning, April 11th, I was scheduled to fly from Omaha to Chicago and then to New York City before then flying to Africa. I had reservations on American Airline, an airline that was canceling many flights last week. In looking at the Weather Channel, I saw that it might snow in Omaha on Friday and it was supposed to be rain stormy very near to Chicago. I had not looked at the New York forecast. God is a miracle working God and I knew that I could get back to Gabon “AGAINST ALL ODDS”. I asked people to pray. A verse came to mind. It was Joshua 1:9b (Bible in Basic English) and states, “Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,”
On Wednesday before those flights I called the travel agent. She said that I was not scheduled on an American Airline’s MD80 plane, the one that was grounded last week. I was scheduled on two other planes. She said to call her on Thursday to see if the flights were still ok. On Thursday she called me instead and told me that she had noticed that she had double booked my flights, on American Airlines through Chicago but also on Northwest Airlines through Minneapolis. She had never canceled the Northwest reservations!!! Thursday she arranged to transfer my payment from American Airlines to Northwest and I soon received a new e-ticket!
Friday I flew Northwest Airline from Omaha through Minneapolis to JFK in New York City. From there I flew to Casablanca. In “Casa” I left the airport and was picked up by a nurse friend of mine. I got to meet two girls she had raised. We went to the beach and watched one of them have her surfing lesson and then ate lunch together before I was driven back to the airport for my flight from Casablanca to Libreville. What fun it was to see my friend, “her kids” and also to see Casablanca!
I arrived in LBV on Saturday night at 11:30pm and rode down to Bongolo Hospital yesterday with someone going. I said that “I ARRIVED”. My two suitcases did NOT arrive on my flight. They came the following day, after I had already gone down country. Both had had their TSA padlocks removed. They will come down country by truck sometime in a week or so.
Praise the Lord that I arrived in Gabon despite American Airline’s grounding planes, bad weather, etc. I arrived home “Against all odds”! Thanks for praying!
Last week I had visits from three brothers. Larry and his wife Leslie were in Omaha the evening of March 24 until the morning of March 26th. We had lots of fun chatting and going out to Applebee's, Chipotle's and Pepper Jack's. To the right see a photo of Larry, Leslie and I in the March wind of Omaha!
During the weekend, March 29-30, I had visits from brothers Glenn and Bill. Glenn came with his grown daughter Kristi. Bill came with his grown daughter Loni. We visited the Village Inn, China One Buffet! We also visited my Uncle Dean and cousins. See a photo of Glenn, Carolyn, Uncle Dean and Bill.