Just wanted you to see what the end of the day looks like. I will carry a flashlight starting tomorrow because of the construction and cobblestones here, plus my cold-weather boots started to fall apart today. Sometimes I am a wimp. I sliced my finger last week and am remembering that I do not like the cold. There are so many people who are braver than me. For whatever reason, God has made me slow and steady. I plod along in my faith, this mission, hoping about the future, and learning. Real missionaries do not have a backup plan like I do, to return home, after three months. I will come home and then am signed up to serve again in February 2025 plus a middle east prayer conference next April. The next stint of service is in the states – a more controlled environment. My last conversation of the day was not quite a conversation. A lady, older than me, came into the library after dark. Everyone says that Prague is safe. She spoke only Czech but motioned she wanted to return books. Then she chatted up the cafe manager for a very long time. Next she browsed the Czech books for another long time then at two minutes to closing approached me on the transaction of “out with the old books – in with the new she was checking out”. She was the second mature person I noticed and tried to help today. The first was a man with a walker who wanted to get on the tram. There were too many people so he was left behind. What he needed was help but he waved me up the stairs. I think I was supposed to stay with him to help but I didn’t. You know that feeling? You miss the nudge and leave someone behind. I am still slow but steady but at those times I should be slower and notice people. That is why I’m here, not to get back to the flat before I freeze or bump into the only bad guy in Prague. Lord help me do better tomorrow. I’m still here.