"NOW, WAIT A MINUTE"

"You have never been to Niagara Falls, but you've seen Victoria Falls in Africa?"

"That's right, baby tiger. But there are no tigers in Africa, so we didn't see you."

At church Sunday, we heard a missionary from Mexico say that one thing about being a missionary was that once in awhile you'd see people you knew in National Geographic. I thought that funny and it reminded me of the time we found Michael in Zimbabwe.

Some friends of ours had been to Zimbabwe about one and a half years before we went. One of them came by our house just before we were to leave. All she had was a picture and first name of a guide they had had. He had taken them to his home on Easter Sunday. They had pictures and a CD they wanted us to give him. The only other information was that they had stayed at the Ilala Hotel where they had met up with Michael.

Our plan was ask at the hotel and perhaps leave them the pictures in hope that they might find him. But when Micato Safari guide Clive and Michael picked us up at the Victoria Falls Airport, sure enough it was the same Michael.

He was so pleased to have been remembered and rewarded with the pictures. Needless to say, we became fast friends. The rest of our tour group was astonished that the first person we met in Zimbabwe was the one we went looking for.