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Thank you so much for your prayers for little Rachida! It’s been a long month of riding this roller coaster and not knowing what’s going to happen, but this week I got news that a decision has been reached. On Thursday she’s scheduled to have surgery here in country to remove both of her eyes. […]

I think you’ll agree that the girl in the picture is a pretty cute kid, even though she’s making a mess eating (hence why her cute dress was taken off). But if you look closely, you may be able to see what’s making her life difficult and her mom’s life miserable at the moment. Do […]

Sometimes we’re called to do things that we aren’t necessarily qualified for and we never expected. Here are a few of the different hats I wore this last weekend: – Medical assistant – I took a friend, her daughter-in-law, and her 20-month-old granddaughter to the clinic on Saturday morning to see what’s wrong with her […]

Sometimes I have slow internet, sometimes I have decent internet. These last few days it has been slow. For example, I’ve been trying to download some sermon podcasts off of itunes. I only have one left, and it only has 5mb left (which is only about the size of a digital picture from a good […]

They say that when you move to the other side of the world you have to learn a new language to be able to make sense out of the world around you and to be able to communicate with those around you. I agree. But there’s more than that. There’s a huge monster called “culture” […]

How much stress do you deal with in your daily life? Probably a lot, if you’re like most Americans. How much stress do I deal with in my daily life? Quite a bit, if I’m like most missionaries. I recently re-came across this blog article about stress that missionaries face: blogs.ethnos360.org/brian-pruett/2012/03/23/just-how-stressed-are-missionaries-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/. It basically says that […]

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 […]