Africans are African, but we are Africa

Hello everyone! My Gap Year Blog is officially being rebooted! I am SOO excited to share of all the adventures that zack and i have had in the past 3 weeeks! so i am currently writting that blog which will be posted asap with photos and video! This is the fist time we have had internet in a long time so i thought i would write and give a quick update! This is an update that zack wrote a few days ago after our overnight stay in "the bush":


Hello all!


Just spent the night in the bush or 'le bruce' as they call it in
French, in the town of Burow.  We've been in Djibo, since Monday now
we haven't slowed down a bit!  The very next morning Steve took us
out to the nieghbors and we did the traditional greeting that you say
to EVERY person, EVERY TIME you meet then.
Me: Jam wali?
Person: Jam tan
Me: Affini a jam?
Person: Jam knee.
Me: somethin somethin
Person: Basi fu wallah
Me: somethin somethin
Person: Fulfulde (the language) words that I don't understand.
Me: Woedi (good) or aieyoo (yes/yeah)


That happens every time.  Very different and cool.


Things are going great here in Djibo, last night we spent the night
with Christiano and Mercia (Brazilians) in the bush-town called Burow,
very fun.  They only speak French, Portugese and Fulfulde, so all of
the conversation was in French since Steve and them did not stay with
us.  It was quite the deep end, but I think we did a little better
than just float, if ya catch my drift. :D.  Last night we went into
town where about 100 Burkinabe's surrounded a tiny television run by a
generator to watch the Burkina vs. Cote d'Ivore football match that
was played. It was like going to the cinema! (except only a 15inch screen... and 100people jammed in one room. Africa is having its own 'Africa Cup' type thing, pretty cool.  Burkina lost, 2-0 we scored an own goal :/.  But this morning we had church and Blake spoke on John 10, the Good Shepherd, JesusChrist. Which was funny because he preached it to herders, so they
know ALL about what he's talkin' 'bout.  Very powerful and many of the
guys commented at the end saying that that's the kind of shepherd they
want, and very cool comments like that, not all of them are
Christians, there were supposed to be around 8ish, but only 4 were
there, and the rest came after Blake finished talking, very African.
We then had a prayer time with the WH team and then we drove back with
Blake and I riding in the bed of the truck with our respective green
and blue turbans with the wind running through our...turbans.  Good
fun good fun!


Cool story: Yesterday afternoon as we were driving to Burow, we
stopped and said hello to this one man (we were picking up two people,
and the man actually pointed us to where they were) and after we said
the greetings that you say to EVERY person when you first meet, then
he told Steve that Blake and I were "full of light and that light was
eminating from us", and he told
Steve that he had some good people with him.  Steve told us as we got
in the truck to drive away that that guy was actually a religious
leader, and was quite aware of the spiritual realm. However, not a christian. Interesting huh?


So we leave on Wednesday, Feb 1st and drive down to Ouaga where we'll,
inshallah, meet up with Elie and Trudi, and spend the night/drive down to
Bobo.  It's only actually 3-4 hours to Ouaga from Djibo, and then 3-4
hours to Bobo, so..that's pretty cool.


We've been doing French since we've been here, with a guy in his early
20s, not much teaching exp. but have been learning nontheless.


Last Wednesday we went and preached at the cattle-market.  Sat on a
mat for two hours with Fulfulde cassettes playing the gospel message
with me turning a large picture book like things that corresponded to
the message being spoken, had around 50 Fulani people around us all
listening to the gospel message, very cool. Blake and i were both able to share our testimonies with the people standing around.


It's great to be in the center of God's will, we wish that all for all
of you as well.


Alright we love you all very much, give my hugs, kisses and love to everyone!
En nom de Jesus,


-Zack et Blake 


ALSO! watch this: (MORE VIDEO UPDATES TO COME)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72Dwks4MC8