Tomorrow we fly to Littleton, CO for two weeks of training. This post will include some pictures, stories and facts that haven't really fit anywhere else in our story.
saw 98 metal detector-wielding moto drivers in a 40 mile stretch today... (photo: gold panning)
Since we left Indiana in January:
We've endured a bank strike and a bread strike...
made four currency exchanges in the back of an Indian hardware store...
survived 3 days of bedridden sickness...
suffered esophogitis and a dislocated finger...
went several days without running water in our house...
went from 0 to 2 flushing toilets in the house...
helped with middle school and high school English Classes...
spent weeks without internet...
attended a wedding...
heard 1200+ calls to prayer...
read 8242 pages of books...
went a month without watching a movie or TV...
have taken 4 showers with hot water...
played in one soccer game officiated by sardine cans instead of a whistle...
have done dishes twice without needing to heat water on the stove...
paid $4 for 2 months of cell phone service...
painted 1000+ sq. ft. with no paint tray...
Had 40 hours of private French tutoring...
bought and cooked only 4 pounds of meat...
skipped the Super Bowl, March Madness, snow shoveling, early sunsets and sirens...
haven't felt a temperature below 80 degrees since the first week of February...
and (just this past week) taught our neighbor kids (all 20ish) to call us "Dahmmy and Anna" instead of toubabouni (the diminutive rude term for white people).
Thank you so much for all your prayers and support. We hope you feel as much a part of God's work as we feel you are. We feel very blessed that you have helped us follow God's call even though it has been much more expensive (and costly) than it has been in the past! "A bientot" to our blog-readers in America and "Anbe" to everyone in Guinea!
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