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Yes, even here in My Country we sometimes get to celebrate holidays. 🙂 (Sometimes they get overlooked as it’s in the middle of something else, but sometimes we get to celebrate them.) Last night I worked on getting ready for the 4th of July. Do I look ready? Now I’ll wear my red, white, and […]

This picture is a picture of my good friend Adeline and her mother. It was taken almost three weeks ago, when I went to see her mother in the hospital for the last time as she was dying from an irreversible and incurable liver disease. I knew that, leaving for the training in the capital […]

I much prefer my city to the capital, even though the capital has lots of yummy food options that I can’t find so easily at home (fried chicken, pizza, and good ice cream included!). But one of the things that usually bugs me about Ouagadougou (Ouaga for short) are the taxi drivers. Here, the French […]

On Friday, I spent the day in our people group, visiting two new villages and stopping at a wedding on the way home. In many ways, the wedding reminded me of a wedding of a main world religion here in the city – dancing to the music of the balafone (like a xylophone). But there […]

Today I had a new first, and something that I don’t think would happen in many places around the world. On my way home from buying vegetables at the market, I stopped to look at some plates. There was a girl working at the little shop selling them, and she said that her mom was […]

On Friday, I sent out an e-mail update, and one of the prayer requests was for rain so that it would cool down around here. (If you’d like to receive my updates by e-mail and don’t yet, let me know and I’ll sign you up.) You must have prayed, since on Saturday morning a good […]