There were times when I was able to ignore the bugs that surrounded us and other times they consumed my energy. \u00a0Yesterday was a holiday and I traveled out to a nearby village to spend the day with our host family. \u00a0I traveled out by myself blindly following the directions I was given and praying I would end up at the right village. \u00a0I traveled out the ways Africans would crammed in the back of a pick up with 25 other people. \u00a0I spent the morning sorting bugs out of noodles with Cecil in a kitchen swimming with flies. \u00a0We cooked a chicken, head, feet and all and prepared the meal together. \u00a0We ate together on the floor, from the same bowl, with our hands. \u00a0In the middle of the meal Cecil looked up at me and said, “My sister, today you are with me in my real home and\u00a0experiencing\u00a0life as I know it”. \u00a0At that moment I knew that God had been using this week to prepare me for this moment. \u00a0He used our normal life to make me familiar with things that I would not naturally be familiar. \u00a0 \u00a0It was hot, bugs were everywhere, the food wasn’t clean, nothing was planned, and I had no idea how I was getting home, but I was there with her where she was most comfortable. \u00a0Thank you God for preparing me to do things I would not normally be able or willing to do.<\/p>\n This week our challenge was all about bugs Household bug…With the rains this week our bug population exploded. \u00a0Thousands of flies, hundreds of\u00a0mosquito, a few spiders, roaches, beetles and\u00a0millipedes Food Bugs…for some reason there were an abnormally large number of bugs I had to sort out of our flour and sugar this week Fever Bugs… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-updates-and-news","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/files\/2012\/08\/P1010409.jpg\")
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