Sleepin' in a mosquito net...my time in Mali
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Original: 4/15/2008 8:26 AM
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Lets count outfits...

 

Well life lately has been good... i am so tried but life is good!  While looking at the pictures we have taken recently i have realized... bare with me... that i wear some really interesting clothes! 

So while checking out these pics and short stories let me know what you think about my sweet threads!

I mentioned a little girl that i got named after me... bless her little heart... poor little Krystal cries all the time... but here we are!  She is pretty sweet!

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Recently we went to a BIG party in our village... big party... really our women started talking about it and we ordered our matching outfits months ago!

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But sadly this big party was kinda a bust... really actually... in asking what we were going to do all we were told was, "Wear our outfits, eat rice, not work, and dance!"

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For months this is what we were told about our women's party... but the day came and this was not the case. 

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We showed up in our big pink doily outfits and came ready to party... but sadly what it really was was a traveling dance party that went to dance, sing to and worship all the False gods in our area.

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  Really. 

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We got there and our brother turned to us and said, "Do you remember the story of Elijah and Baal?  This is Baal."  Not kidding. 

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In this shot a large group is singing and dancing to one of these False gods at his little hut (which is the actually location where a fetish is kept.)

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It was a tough day...

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It is hot and dry now... really, again, so this a shot of bricks drying out... because when everything is hot & dry and everything is built with mud and mud bricks that means it is construction season!

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Monica and i bought a moto!  Yeah we are rebels...

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[note:  With all of Mon's lovely attire here... she is still wearing pearls under her matching blue helmet!]IMG_4940

Here we are getting it out of our house, because all motos are kept in houses here, to go to a testing session in another village...

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Right before Easter Monica & I went to Amy & Susan's village to party with them...

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this is pre-party...

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but it was a cool time where they were able to bring in a drama team to their area and we just got to hang out and be in the back ground. 

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It was sweet and several hundred people heard the Good News that night!

This is a shot of us crafting under our mango tree...

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I don't rememeber which story we were working on there but i know the next story i am working with my crafter on is from Isaiah 53... so you can pray for that!

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Of course we had tea... we always have tea while we craft!

This is Brehima, our back-translator... plesae pray for him!

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Here i am again with our brother testing a story...

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Pray for this brother, Anson- right now we are praying through the details for his baptism!

A new friend... thankfully he didn't stay too long!

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Just last week the Catholics in the next village over deticated a new church building...

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They throw a good party too!

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One thing i really like is the stained glass windows... they are very African and the captions are even in Supyire!

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Here i am on Sitapha's moto on the way to another village...

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see here's Sitapha (our crafter travels with us to one of our villages for testing!)

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The Forts... i like them a lot...

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Random picture...

Here we go... a lot... maybe one giant blog post!

 

 

 Posted 4/15/2008 8:26 AM - 198 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments

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Aww...look at you two in your pepto pink...
Posted 4/15/2008 11:06 AM by SusanLJ01 - reply

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Loved the outfits, I love you too.
Posted 4/16/2008 6:31 AM by phutch16 - reply


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