The Coolest Gift - but it's a secret

[Sherri]

Well, we watched the DVD yesterday at my MIL's after opening gifts. It was SO exciting! You know....no one cried at all! But they were all so excited pointing out the places and all the people from 40+ years ago. Eddie was just 7 years old when he left there, but he recognized the villages of Fassama, Bomi Hills (where he was born), Monrovia, and Bella Yella as soon as he saw them. He also could point out their house, Sis. Gruse's house, the church, the laundry room, and the mission school.

They found Sis. Gruse and Sis. Lund - two other missionaries, as well as the Assemblies of God missionaries who were visiting them. They saw their "house girls" and the school teacher, and a couple getting married at the church. There was film of the Africans beating the husks off the rice, and of them beating the palm nuts to get oil. I'm sure TStew can relate to all of this!!

There was a huge parade in Monrovia because queen Elizabeth was there. She was making a tour of Africa, and was stopping in Liberia, so they flew their little plane in to be able to see her.

After that, we went back and dug through an old closet. Eddie was looking for an old Farrah Fawcet rug that he had when we got married and Zac wanted to see it. Well, we never found the rug, but we found an old briefcase of his dads and it had a Mickey Mouse wallet of Eddie's in it, as well as something he had made for his dad out of a bar of soap. It also had his dad's wallet, his passport, all of their PIM information, and letters from people in the states. There were also pictures from the wreck, which was horrendous! I don't know how Bro. Freeman survived, seeing where he was sitting. There was even a picture of him in the hospital!

It was very hard for my MIL to see those pictures of the car. She had not seen them since the funeral in 1973. Anyway, it was an emotional day, and we got to bring the briefcase home with us to go through it later and read all the stuff. I felt like I was holding a case of Pentecostal history!