All is well! And we have chocolate cake now so...

Just a quick update as I (Jaye and Kelsie too) have received lovely messages of encouragement and prayers over the last couple of days. The trip definitely had a stressful start! Thank you for the love we have received. We are doing much better today.
I am so thankful that James, our newest Covenant International board member, is also here visiting friends and family. He has been a great support. After speaking with him, I decided it best to pay for the truck (or Zion Train as it is nicknamed) to be fixed. The stress on all of us without a vehicle was too much. And thank God, they were able to fix it in just two days with

the amount of cash I had brought as an emergency fund!
Kelsie’s toe looks great, and I have managed to fight off the worst of some kind of cold/ illness. Kelsie thankfully continues to feel good. And the temperature is the mildest I have experienced in Liberia!
We changed our lodging plans a bit – we are moving out of the guest house for three nights to stay with a friend of Eddie’s (Massa). Originally, we were going to stay there until we leave, but the reality is the guest house offers a certain level of comfort that I now realize we need and it is much more convenient to the school. It is a little more work to move back and forth but not as much now that the truck is running!
Kelsie and I continue to process what life is like in a developing nation. As much as we have talked about visiting this continent over the years and seen the pictures and heard the stories, there really is no preparation for witnessing it firsthand. But Liberians are the loveliest and most welcoming people, and we are safe and well taken care of. It is now a joke that it doesn’t really

matter how I am doing; all that matters is that the special guest, aka Kelsie, is doing well. I am no longer a guest but a Liberian. Nevertheless, they still threw a big party for me after church today. We had so much fun and know we have turned a corner.