Ascending

With the sun rising (even behind a sky full of clouds) comes a new day. A fresh start meant an opportunity to leave yesterday behind and try again.

Both my classes went smoothly, particularly because I took the drive to Konye, constant bumps and all, to get a good set of sentence examples written along the way there. That set me up for both classes geared toward adults (although I did have an off the cuff lesson on adverbs vs. adjectives tonight as well). I think my students are happy. The number of children was smaller tonight as it was the first night of Ramadan and a few of the students may be Muslim. But my joy for the day was reading the story of David and Goliath to them, pulling in a touch of acting skills, and seeing them riveted, enjoying the listening practice.

The children I call my paparazzi because they are a swarm around me and surround the car as we try to leave. Literally kids hugging on me until I climb into the car. They of course are fascinated by my hair - long, smooth, and soft and sneak every opportunity to touch it they can. I've been impressed with their English levels from school, but since we are in an Anglophone region, it's not entirely shocking for the kids. They make me smile.

And Mama Sabina, the president of the Lutheran Church of Cameroon (LCC) prepared the most delicious dinner tonight. We ate it ALL! It was a nice break from pepe soup with fish. I got three solid meals today... Lunch just didn't happen until 3:30. Don't tell my boys that the Konye church served us only cookies for lunch "like America". Lol... Oh my.

The evening ended with yet another deep conversation with Karen. God has stuffed me to the point of bursting with emotion and I really wrestle with Him on that. It would seem pretty ridiculous to me to come all the way to Africa to "fix" my life. Anyway, I'm blessed by her and her deep faith and hope I am able to process through God's grace the conversations we have had and really start growing in my faith again.

I will be headed up to the Northwest region early tomorrow morning and won't have any internet for most of three days. I didn't want to leave you all that actually read this on a down note from last night. Just rest assured that the prayers of the individuals I reached out to with specifics were affective and I am so very grateful.

I hope to return with a plethora of adventure and growth stories after the weekend. Don't miss me too badly. 😉