This is a note I sent from my trip in the Congo after being there for 1 week. I have been in the DR Congo for a week now and am excited to share some of my experiences with you all. Everything has been new since I got off the plane out on the tarmac at FIH airport in Kinshasa. Fr. Emmanuel was there to greet me and we began our adventure. Meeting family and friends of his in Kinshasa, taking the Historic City tour of Kinshasa, the Capital City, and experiencing the first evening without our 'modern conveniences' of electricity and running water. In spite of, or maybe because of, these hardships I have been having the time of my life! On Saturday we flew via CAA airlines from FIH Airport to Lodja. 'Getting checked in and through security' (if you can call it all of that) took a few hours and then we were 'off'.' After two stops in other villages (one on a dirt runway) we were finally in Lodja where Fr. Medta, the President/Rector of John
“You have prayed for patience, and I have multiplied the opportunities in which you could be patient.” God, speaking to St. Philip Neri ...Herein lie the opportunities the Lord is providing me to exercise this beautiful fruit of the Holy Spirit - Patience.