6/3/14Food, dinner, priorities

June 3
We have prepared for this day having learned that most of the preparation must take place the night before since we don't have electricity and the room at 6:45 AM is still fairly dark.
Food! Anyone who has read my blog from 2011 knows that during the first visit to Liberia I visited the topic of food a lot. I had been in Monrovia then a time or two, however, and had seen food in the markets that wasn't available in Yekepa and so assumed this time it would be different. It is; well, kind of! Yesterday morning when all that was served at breakfast was pineapple and later hard rolls were brought out, I asked if I could pay for a boiled egg. That is not my favorite way to eat an egg, but hey, I had had no supper the night before and knew I had a busy day ahead of me. Even in church Sunday I came close to fainting. Thankfully God heard my prayer and the sip of water and sitting down restored me.

Last night the owner of the guesthouse arranged a taxi so we could go to dinner. The dinner was reasonably prices; the taxi wasn't. He charged by the hour and I feel ripped off because he knew that where he was taking us was in the middle of Monrovia which is far from Paynesville where we are staying, that the traffic was heavy and the potholes were numerous. It took an hour just to get th the restaurant. Surely there were places closer. "In all things give thanks" is coming to mind right now. I didn't go to bed hungry and I did have a cool room when we got back.