Sunburn : )

Today has been a pretty good day. We started out the day by going to church at the Bethel Bible Institue. It was a very good service, this time in French(instead of Bambara) so I was able to understand a little bit more. After church we went outside and greeted everyone. I'm starting to enjoy this more as I am catching on to some of the Bambara phrases and It's really fun to see the Malian's faces when I try to speak their language :). The team that is here also gave out coloring books and crayons to the children and they loved them. We started taking pictures of them and they started to love that more than their gifts. They would squeal with joy whenever we would show them their picture after we took it...so great! After church we then went to the hospital to show the new team members what it was like. I'm really starting to fall in love with the people here. They have so much joy when you greet them, it just radiates through them. When we got back to the house, one of the women from the team had already made lunch. It was an amazing taco soup(so much better than the ceral I have been living off of :) ) Then we did the best thing ever and layed out by the pool next door, I got a tiny sunburn(sure beats snow!!)

This team has been such a blessing and has really helped to make my last few days here in Mali great! I really feel like they are becoming family and it's only been one day. One of the mom's even kissed me goodnight...they are so wonderful!God has provided in so many ways. I am beginning to see this trip as such a blessing. I know that I am being prepared for the future in so many ways.God had a plan for me to be here, even in my suffering he is preparing me for what's to come, and I will patiently wait on him to see what that is. I can't believe my time here is almost done, and I will be returning home. I can't believe that I actually did this. If you would of told me a year ago that I would be in Africa right now, by myself, I would laugh, really hard, but God prepared me and he has done some incredible things in me on this trip. I am so thankful for my time here, even though it was diffuclt.

Here are some pictures from church this morning. Enjoy!