April's Trip to Burkina Faso

This past week I had the opportunity to go to Burkina Faso, which is 2 Countries East of Senegal. The Country is one of the poorest nations in the world. Although it is very poor, the people there seemed very pleasant and the land was clean. Well... at least cleaner than Senegal.
While in the Country I was able to meet 16 pastors and visit one village. The pastors seemed very excited about me being there and wanted me to move to BF... rather than the opportunity we have in Rwanda. More on that later. Most of the pastors in Burkina Faso are very poor. There are 2 bags of rice at the church I went to for the pastors. Every four months the pastors come and get food for their family. Please remember them in your prayers as these pastors are hungry and continue to survive each day.
While visiting one of the villages I was able to see the Nazarene school that was built by work and witness teams for the neighboring village. I was met by lots of happy children. They loved to have their pictures taken and then look at themselves in the camera.
There are about 120 students that attend the school. This school provides education in French and is taught by Christian teachers.
This past week I was also able to meet some of the coolest missionaries I know. Friday and Mary Friday Ganda are the new missionaries assigned to the Africa West Field. In 45 hours we were able to find them a beautiful house, a guard, furniture for the house, a language tutor, and get their visas. Isn't God good?
BF is full of motorcycles, scooters, bikes, and mopeds. There are actually more of these than there are cars.
Here are some more highlights that I experienced while in BF.

• I experienced God moving with in the Ganda's situation. Everything was really smooth with their house hunting etc..
  
• I saw a truck full of meat. See picture.
  
• We had a 14 year old boy fix our car.
• I saw a large truck carrying boxes of fish. I think the fish came from the ocean and it was not in any kind of freezer or on ice. Just the fish... (By the way, Burkina Faso is far from the ocean.)
  
• I was able to buy brown sugar at the local grocery store. Yay!
• I saw a guy on a scoter carrying a large goat.
  

This was a great trip and I am thankful I was able to have gone. Spencer and the kids stayed home. While they were at home Spencer cleaned and rearranged the home. I think he was trying to make the time pass.

Please contiue to pray for us. As our language study is coming to a close we will be transitioning to our official assignment. As of today, our assignment possibilities are Burkina Faso and Rwanda.










We love all of you,
April