(Morning) - What’s flat round and has small brownish black things in it? I don’t know for sure but we ate it this morning for Breakfast and it was delicious. Life here in Ouagadougou continues to be an adventure. However, now that we have been in town for two days and are starting to feel comfortable, it is time to move on. Tomorrow morning at 6AM it’s off to Mahadaga. Last night and today we spent time making progress on the various projects that brought us to this fascinating country. Over lunch yesterday we asked the missionary, Robin, who is translating scripture into Fulfulde for the Fulani people if there was anything we could do to help. Last night he recorded three chapters of the book of Matthew in Fulfulde for us to work with when we get back home. The plan is to see if we can use this as a starting point for making an audio version of the Bible for the Fulani who can’t read. The education group is busy translating some children’s books from English into French so they can read them to the children in the school in Mahadaga. The mobility guys are out now buying bike parts that were too heavy to bring with us. I’m sitting at the table now with the KWhr meter in front of me. I plugged it in to make sure that nothing was trashed in transit. In fact something that was NOT working when we left is working now. Looks like the “shake it” technique of getting electronics to work is still the best approach. Mike is the only one not working on his project. He claims this is because the Biodiesel group did their work ahead of time but I think he is just lazy.
(Evening) - Well it is late and we have an early day tomorrow so I’ll keep this last bit quick. Tonight we were all invited to the home of John, a pastor in Ouagadougou who also runs a school teaching high school age young people computer literacy classes and English language classes. This helps them to be more successful economically and provides an outreach opportunity to share Christ with them. John borrowed a friend’s car and we made two trips to his house to get the whole team of 10 to his house, 6 at a time in a small car.
Thank you for all of your prayers for our group. We are enjoying each others company, getting to appreciate the local people and feeling amazed at the way God works in so many ways in so many places. - Randy
Gotta cut Mike a little slack - he spent a couple of days packing all the team's equipment into 21 suitcases! Who knows, maybe the placement of the non-working item was the key to it being magically fixed in transit.
ReplyDeleteSafe journey team!