The past week has been a blur, I'm not sure how things go so fast. For example – every 2 weeks I change my contacts for new ones (I know so random) but today is the day for new contacts and I honestly feel like I just changed them yesterday. Not to mention how fast 5 months has flown by. Seriously how is this happening?
The SFR is over and our visitors have returned home, or on to the next field – they left us with some encouragement and ideas for the future. For me, my job has changed slightly – but really its God answering more prayers. Crazy. Envision is still developing so much and I am some what of a trial run because I am the first intern to come here under that role. Praise the Lord I always have the youth as the job I cannot take my eyes off – but there are some exciting things that I will be picking up. They have asked me to help more with teams that come in and Envision is hoping to send more interns out and would like me to be a host and to help them transition into being here. So if you are interesting in coming to Burkina for any amount of time – 2 weeks or 2 months…or longer – come! Ill help you (and I could sure use you in the youth group – especially some guys). J Our field is going to shrink drastically this summer because 3 missionaries will be going home for their year in the States. The Ouaga team will literally be 5 missionaries – it will be a huge transition but I am excited for the responsibility.
This week has been quieter for me because several of the youth headed to Ghana for MUN (model United Nations). Three of my llamas – Kari, Robbie, and Micah all headed down so that changed youth group quite a bit. I had to pray about the jealousy I felt for them going – they all got to go to the beach and play in the ocean! And Kari told me she went to a real MALL! Okay so I am still a little jealous. I am certainly going to see if they will need a chaperone for next year!
Youth group went well last night though – I separated the boys and girls and we looked at verses of who God is and compared that to who we think God is. I ended with bringing everyone together for a few minutes and said that how we perceive God is not reality because he is SO much more than we can understand. But how God perceives us is reality, even if we don’t see ourselves like it – we are still children of God. I know there are a few in the youth group that don’t know Jesus so after I read John 1:12 – I invited anyone to talk to me at any time if they want to see themselves as a child of Jesus and just invited them to believe. No one talked to me afterwards but I'm praying that what they got from small groups and my little invitation well stick with them for a while.
This week I also subbed for third grade – oh man was that hard. I have a new appreciation for all the elementary teachers out there. I also know why I am not one J I just couldn’t get them to be quiet. It was so hard! I also have no idea if they learned anything from me. After school the elementary principle asked if they scared me off – I told her no (for some stupid reason) but really I don’t know if I can do it again. I think Ill stick to the teenagers.
Last Sunday I went – for the first time – to church by myself! I drove all the way out to Ouaga 2000 where the Clousers lead a small church. Steve Clouser gave the sermon in French and I understood more than I have yet! It was so exciting! I still cant speak French but man I am starting to understand so much.
Lastly – Brandon Heath came out with a new cd last month called Leaving Eden – I would highly recommend it.
Oh also - its starting to get hot...
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