Burkina

   I arrived safely in Burkina Faso yesterday afternoon on my flight! I was so happy to finally touch onto the ground as I really do not enjoy flying very much. Im sure when I finally get back to the states I will want to kiss the ground (even if thats weird). God was so present during my flight as I could just imagine his hand flying the plane like a little boy would hold on to his paper airplane toy.  I have been continually reminded of a song that says "The one the wind and waves obey is strong enough to save you". How powerful is that, that our great and powerful God can tell the wind to stop and the waves to calm down. And if he can do that of course He can save us, in so many more ways than one.  We are so blessed and I cannot even begin to tell you how blessed you are that you can even read this post. In America we have SO much I could throw up. Even if you are sick now, you have come this far and not been "deathly" ill.  Death here is an every day thing.  Everybody is affected by it in some way or another usually in their immediate family and we dont have to even think about it until we are old.  I was talking with one of my Ugandan friends before I left who is a nurse and only 25 years old. I told her "oh dont worry about it you still have about 60 years left" and at first she said "yea.." but then she paused and said "actually probably about 20, life expectancy here is only 45.  Wow. Talk about reality check.
   Burkina is a much poorer country, there are many more naked babies here (haha ellen) and even up to the age of 6 or 7 we have seen them without clothing.  It is also not even close to as densely populated as Uganda. The weather here is also so ridiculously HOT and HUMID! I will be having a fro every day from now on im sure of it!
   Hope you all are having a fantastic day, spending time in the word DAILY, and giving God your everything. Praying for you all! I love you!