Wednesday, September 11, 2013

I thought I should maybe do a post in which I wasn’t whining, so people wouldn’t get the wrong idea of my life here. It is a beautiful life. I am just going to share some humorous quotes we utter here in West Africa that I doubt you have ever heard or said in America.
“ I totally saw a white guy at market today!!”
“It’s raining, are our buckets out?”
“It rained a lot yesterday, we should do laundry today.”
“ We should go greet them[neighbors] , we haven’t seen them in like three days.”
And lastly, I would like to share how God answered one of my prayers this last month. My window leads out to our neighbors’ yard.  In this yard is the bathroom behind a wall. The hole for the latrine is getting full. When the wind blew  a certain way, my room was becoming unfortunately odiferous.  I was getting sad about this one evening, and I prayed about it. Soon after that, the rains began coming every night with regularity- and every night right before the rain I can smell a lovely flowery scent wafting through my window. It is sooo nice! God sent me some aromatherapy, He is faithful, even to my nose!

2 comments:

  1. I think I've said a few of those quotes over here! :) God is so good! I'm glad you got some aromatherapy!!! I just sent a prayer up for you. May you continue to be blessed, and find more of those non-American quotes to say... lol!

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  2. Haha - I don't think I have EVER seen a white guy at the market! ^_^
    And I am totally relating to the sewage smell right now - our tanks have been open underneath my window for the last month or so in the long process of being re-plumbed (and even as I say that, I recognize the blessing it is to have a plumbing system... even a faulty one!)
    Tho I can't decide which I like worse - sewage or burning trash smoke ;P
    Blessings!

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