Where to start... it was a busy weekend here in Liberia.
Christopher and Kobe left Saturday morning with the neighbors and camped up in Robertsport for the night. Robertsport is about 3 hours north of here...not too far from the border with Sierra Leone. It is famous for its surfing and natural beauty. Here's a picture Christopher took from a hill by the beach.
Saturday the rest of us went out to help a team that is out from the states building a new orphanage for Addy's Hope...didn't get any pictures...so you'll just have to trust us...
After going out for lunch Sunday afternoon we came back and went to the beach. There were 4 or 5 other families who had gathered to see off one of the families who headed back to the states today for a few months. While I was out swimming a few Liberian boys were pointing at something about 50' out in the water. I thought maybe it was a fish or something...because nobody seemed too panicked about it. Then they said that it was a boy. I'm not sure how long he'd been under water, but by the time I swam out to him and brought him back in it was at least 30 seconds...maybe a lot longer. Fortunately, two of the other people on the beach were our dentist Keith Chapman and a medical student, Corinne, here from Switzerland. They started working on him and were able to resuscitate him.
Then Sunday evening we were able to visit Acres of Hope's orphanage. The orphanage we visited has the two girls that we are planning on adopting. Right now Liberia has put a hold on all adoptions pending new adoption laws. Since we don't know how long it will take, we thought it would be best if we not tell the girls that we are trying to adopt them. It all went very well, until we got up to leave and one of the nanny's told the girls to go give their new Ma a hug good bye, and asked them if they wanted us to be their new family...oh well. We hope to be able to visit the orphanage weekly until the laws are changed and we can complete the adoption. We were asked not to post any pictures publicly on the internet, but were able to take some, and some video of the children singing...priceless.
So it is almost 10:30 here now. It's been a long weekend...I'm going to bed.
2 comments:
What an incredible adventure! We loved your newsletter and admire what you are doing!
I have pictures of both you and Rusty helping us on our slideshow on our website. Thank you so much! You guys are a total blessing to us. I am soooooo happy that we met. We look forward to seeing you again. Please tell your three sons we said hello. Please let us know if you need anything at all, we'd love to help you out in any way that we can.
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