Only four more days until I will be boarding a flight with my team to Liberia!! I am beyond excited and cannot wait to see all of the wonderful people I met two years ago!  In particular, I am excited to see how nine-year-old Ester and eight-year-old Annie-Joe are doing.  Both live in Camphor and they are best friends.  Everyday they would tag along beside our team, making it very easy for us to get to know them.  I have been praying for these two little girls and cannot wait to see them next week!

Ester on the left and Annie-Joe on the right

Ester:
A wonderful, outgoing little girl who came right up to me on my first day at Camphor.  Whenever walking, Ester would come right up to hold my hand and walk with me to my destination, using that time to get to know me.  After returning, Ester sent a letter to me.  In it she asked me not to forget about her when I return to America.  I am so excited to see her again and reassure her that I have not forgotten her and that I have been praying for her.  

Annie-Joe:
She is one of the happiest girls I have ever seen in my life.  Even though she lives in rural Liberia that has just come out of a civil war, is lacking in natural resources, without sanitation, and sometimes even short on food she is HAPPY.  Annie-Joe proves that being surrounded by loving people is the only necessity needed to be happy in life.  I should be happy, like Annie-Joe, because loving people surround me.