On the plane to Lilongwe, Judy told me about what she was most excited about seeing on this trip. She told me about our wonderful friends she would soon see again! Later on, when we arrived in Lilongwe, we were greeted by Hugo and Chifundo with big warm hugs. Chifundo is our driver and guide for the trip. He owns a hot pink bus that was purchased from Japan. Soon after getting on the bus, Hugo gave us his formal greeting saying: “Welcome to Malawi, the warm heart of Africa”. He offered a prayer that was a highlight of our day.
We drove to our lovely hotel and enjoyed some small talk and a review of tomorrow’s events. After a delicious dinner, we went practiced 10,000 reasons again for the upcoming church service the following day. Dianne, Doty, Emerson and I came up with several new dances to add to our team’s singing performance and shortly after a discussion of where we saw God today, we were all off to bed, ready to receive tomorrow’s blessings.