“The LORD is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give
thanks to him in song.” Psalm 28:7 NIV
Next week is Thanksgiving Day
and I am so thankful to the Lord for what he has done for me. Yes, my “heart
leaps for joy” even if my leg cannot leap at all. BUT, I can walk! Yesterday I
did aerobic walking for 18 minutes (I wear a pedometer) and I could have walked
longer! I am also thankful to you my prayer partners for your continuing
prayers for me during over nine months since March 5th when I broke
my knee/wrist.
What are my plans for Thanksgiving Day? Well, I am invited
to TWO meals that day. At
noon I will be with my step family and later in the afternoon I will be with my
cousins. I should not go hungry. It will be a good opportunity though to see
everyone before I fly back to Gabon.
When do I fly? My
flights are on December 11th and I fly from Omaha to Chicago
and then to Frankfort, Germany before flying to Libreville, Gabon. Guess what.
My nurse friend Nancy is
traveling with me to Gabon and she will stay for about seven weeks! She
has been to Africa three times before but never to Gabon. Nancy, an ER nurse, has
helped me in many ways during these 9 months of convalescence.
Praise:
1. The Gabonese highway that was washed out by rains a few weeks ago was
rapidly repaired and the southern and eastern parts of the country are no
longer cut off from the capital city.
2. A couple from my Sunday School class helped me get four boxes of my things
to UPS so I could mail them to the shipping company for shipment to Gabon.
3. I now have very little pain in my left leg.
4. I am making good progress at packing up my belongings that must be put into
storage and other things that I will take with me to Africa.
Prayer Requests:
1. Pray I receive my Permit to Enter
Gabon. It was applied for by our Business Manager in Gabon and he will email it
to me when he obtains it. I do not need a normal visitor’s visa.
2. Pray that Nancy’s passport would arrive from being renewed and that she
would then obtains her Gabonese Visa.
3. Pray for me as I finish packing up
and then as I move out of my apartment before the end of the month. Yes, I will
need some people to help me those last few days of the month.
4. My main laptop computer was having
problems with the keyboard this week so I took it to be repaired by the “Geek
Squad”. Pray that it gets repaired and returned to me before my flight on
December 11th.
Have a good Thanksgiving Day, a day for reflection on what
God has done for you.
I will write again before leaving for Gabon.
Thankful for all God has done,
Carolyn
