Mariah Gossett

That's when she went on this month-long mission trip. Then the following year, as early as April 2009, she's actually back in Zambia, at least for a few months now. doing an orphan ministry internship. And it's here where her memoir actually begins. And it's on this trip that she decides that she hears this call that she's being led to move to Zambia and be a missionary.

And so the game plan is to go back home, announce this to her parents and family, kind of wrap things up, and then move back to Zambia. And so based on the timeline that I could, you know, decipher and research, and also I know Mariah as well, as we were pulling different things together, it's by December 2009, she's back in Zambia working for a nonprofit organization.

And so the game plan is to go back home, announce this to her parents and family, kind of wrap things up, and then move back to Zambia. And so based on the timeline that I could, you know, decipher and research, and also I know Mariah as well, as we were pulling different things together, it's by December 2009, she's back in Zambia working for a nonprofit organization.

And so the game plan is to go back home, announce this to her parents and family, kind of wrap things up, and then move back to Zambia. And so based on the timeline that I could, you know, decipher and research, and also I know Mariah as well, as we were pulling different things together, it's by December 2009, she's back in Zambia working for a nonprofit organization.

By November 2011, she's posting this letter on her friend's blog. In it, she writes that she's currently serving under an organization called GEMS, which works with vulnerable women and girls here. And she says, though my position allows some outreach with orphans, I plan to spend the next few years here in Zambia. And she talks about her process of adopting.

By November 2011, she's posting this letter on her friend's blog. In it, she writes that she's currently serving under an organization called GEMS, which works with vulnerable women and girls here. And she says, though my position allows some outreach with orphans, I plan to spend the next few years here in Zambia. And she talks about her process of adopting.

By November 2011, she's posting this letter on her friend's blog. In it, she writes that she's currently serving under an organization called GEMS, which works with vulnerable women and girls here. And she says, though my position allows some outreach with orphans, I plan to spend the next few years here in Zambia. And she talks about her process of adopting.

So that's all that we really know from how she describes it. from her friend's blog and what she's doing. Her memoir is a little or a lot more obscure about the work that she's doing. She talks about living in a three-room house with another missionary. That house was a service center for women and children that tracks with serving vulnerable women and children.

So that's all that we really know from how she describes it. from her friend's blog and what she's doing. Her memoir is a little or a lot more obscure about the work that she's doing. She talks about living in a three-room house with another missionary. That house was a service center for women and children that tracks with serving vulnerable women and children.

So that's all that we really know from how she describes it. from her friend's blog and what she's doing. Her memoir is a little or a lot more obscure about the work that she's doing. She talks about living in a three-room house with another missionary. That house was a service center for women and children that tracks with serving vulnerable women and children.

But then she also talks about teaching English and going to the compounds to evangelize and visit homes. cooking and cleaning and singing and dancing and going to prayer meetings. But she doesn't really get into kind of the brass tacks of what she's actually doing on a day-to-day with this organization.

But then she also talks about teaching English and going to the compounds to evangelize and visit homes. cooking and cleaning and singing and dancing and going to prayer meetings. But she doesn't really get into kind of the brass tacks of what she's actually doing on a day-to-day with this organization.

But then she also talks about teaching English and going to the compounds to evangelize and visit homes. cooking and cleaning and singing and dancing and going to prayer meetings. But she doesn't really get into kind of the brass tacks of what she's actually doing on a day-to-day with this organization.

And certainly nothing alluding to the fact that she's kind of helping to construct this day school.

And certainly nothing alluding to the fact that she's kind of helping to construct this day school.

And certainly nothing alluding to the fact that she's kind of helping to construct this day school.

And I think at this point, one might be questioning, okay, so how does she get involved with orphans and orphanages? And it's during the time that I believe that she was working at GEMS that she writes in her memoir, she feels led to go to a crisis orphanage that she had only been to once before. So that's all we get from how she started visiting orphanages.

And I think at this point, one might be questioning, okay, so how does she get involved with orphans and orphanages? And it's during the time that I believe that she was working at GEMS that she writes in her memoir, she feels led to go to a crisis orphanage that she had only been to once before. So that's all we get from how she started visiting orphanages.

And I think at this point, one might be questioning, okay, so how does she get involved with orphans and orphanages? And it's during the time that I believe that she was working at GEMS that she writes in her memoir, she feels led to go to a crisis orphanage that she had only been to once before. So that's all we get from how she started visiting orphanages.

And so much of her memoir focuses on the sick children that she met either primarily in the orphanage but also in the community. But because her story starts to shift so much, again, talking about these orphanage settings and even how she met her first daughter.