October 24th 8:41 pm (UTC +1:00)
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> I didn’t get a chance to write yesterday because I managed to pick up
> a virus last night and I couldn’t use my computer. I was stupid and
> thought I could get by without an antivirus program if I just used
> facebook, gmail and my blog. False clearly. I felt bad praying about
> it, but I didn’t know what I would do if I lost my only real contact
> with you all. Wouldn’t you know it, the Asher’s happened to have 3
> copies of Norton Antivirus 2011 and they let me have a copy. After
> installing it and running it, my computer is thankfully right as rain.
> Apparently the viruses here are killer if you get them and don’t
> handle them with an antivirus program. Anyway, enough of my computer
> troubles, today was a hot day even compared to the other days. We
> went to another church in a nearby village. It’s just really cool to
> see the passion that these people have during their worship. I just
> wish I could understand what was going on. Anyway, then we came back
> and didn’t do much all day because of the heat, I wasn‘t feeling well.
> However, we did have a visitor, we had the Lisa, the head of two
> divisions of World Hope over for dinner. She’s very nice and has a big
> heart for helping the people in Africa. She’s been traveling since the
> 10th of October and she leaves Thursday to go home. She started in
> Liberia before coming over this way. She is visiting some of the
> schools where they provide support to. She said they have 16 areas
> where they provide support, as for the size of those areas, your guess
> is good as mine because she didn‘t say. But she said in some schools
> they don’t have enough teachers, the kids come to school and sit in
> their classrooms doing nothing the whole time because the teacher
> isn’t there. You won’t be getting this till the 25th because Karen is
> in Freetown picking up the first medical student, the one from the UK.
> That was interesting, Karen was expecting to pick her up at the dock,
> but apparently the girl got a ride to some British government
> building, but we here in Kamakwie didn’t realize what was going on so
> we were all worried she told us she had gotten picked up by some guy.
> But things worked out ok and Karen ended up getting her. Anyway,
> that’s about all I have for tonight. I pray that you are all well.
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> Blessings from Africa
> Ryan Brooks