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My host family here in the village has done so much for me.  Before my house was finished, I lived with my host mom and she cooked and cleaned and washed my clothes and heated my shower water and got my water at the pump and so much more, and then slowly started teaching me […]

Thanks so much for your prayers for Rachida’s eye surgery yesterday! She did have the surgery, but only one eye was removed. It sounds like they’ll send that in for a biopsy before removing the other. It also sounds like she’ll be continuing chemo in the meantime. But in talking to a missionary doctor this […]

  For those of you who have been following my blog for a while, you’ve also been following the story of little Rachida, the girl with hereditary retinoblastoma (eye cancer). Yesterday I got a call from her mom who’s with her at the doctor in Bamako, Mali, and she said that the report is that […]

  (I wrote this post on Saturday evening.) Good news!  I’m heading out tomorrow for a trip to Israel with a bunch of people I know from my church in the US!  I can’t wait! More good news!  Our houses in the village are finally finished!  (Or at least they’re close enough to being finished […]

When I say “act like a teenage girl,” what picture comes to mind? I know that all teenage girls aren’t the same, but when you say that here (and it’s all one word in Jula – sunguruyake), it conveys the image of a girl dressing up all fancy, putting on makeup, flirting, trying to catch […]

On Thursday I got back to the city from 9 days in the village. And no, our houses aren’t done yet. But there is, like usual, a little bit of visible progress. First of all, our solar panels are installed on our roofs (sorry I don’t have a picture) and some of the electricity is […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted about Rachida and her hereditary retinoblastoma (eye cancer), but that’s because there hasn’t been any news. But now Rachida and her mom Awa and little brother Rachid (see the second picture) came back to town from the capital with plans to head back to Mali for more […]

  The other day I was playing a local game called Lido with the Pryors’ son. It’s very similar to the game of Trouble, but it doesn’t have the fun popper in the middle of the board. Anyway, his strategy is one that I don’t think I’ve seen before. He liked to keep all of […]

Well, the day after I posted the last update on my house, plans changed again.  A security team from Ethnos360 came out and, after visiting My Village, told us of several changes that will need to be made to our houses before we can move in because of the changing security situation in this part […]

When we’re out in My Village, it’s not all about the houses, but there’s a lot of language, culture, and relationships, too.  This last time out there I was able to get a few pictures to show you that I  really do work and not just goof off.  🙂  The above picture is of me […]