Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Bonjour, Laura is sick in bed! I hate it when she is sick!!!! I am sure that this e-mail is going to have a lot of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors…
Missions With the Consfords
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Bonjour,
Laura is sick in bed! I hate it when she is sick!!!! I am sure that this e-mail is going to have a lot of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors in it, but it will just have to do. We could play a game and see who can find the right number of errors, Lo could be the judge when she gets well. C/:o)
This morning, Lo continued to sort all of the boxes that we got in the container. Wow! We got a lot of good stuff and the kids are just about beside themselves. They can't decide what to play with first. So, they wind up getting everything our at once and it looks a little like Hiroshima in their room if you turn your back for a couple of minutes! Lo and the kids had a good time doing all of that today.
I headed into Abidjan to get a visa to go visit my friend Randy Smith in Burkina Faso. The attitude in Abidjan was a little tense! The state run media is drilling one thing into the heads of the people. "French/American agenda to impose an unwanted ruler!" I don't know how many times today people asked me why we want to impose a foreigner upon them as president! I just told them that I am at a loss to understand the reasoning of all of politicians and I just want God's will to be done in the Ivory Coast. That answer seems to defuse the situation and it gives me the opportunity to give them the Gospel.
Yesterday and today have been a rather dangerous time in certain areas of Abidjan. There has been heavy fighting in the early morning hours and both the police and civilians have lost lives. We were going to take Sara Bascue's things to her tomorrow, but we have to drive close to that area to do that. I have contacts in the Ivorian military and I asked them if that would be alright to take a trailer of stuff to Anyama. My friend told me that he would shoot me himself for doing something so dumb! He told me to leave that trailer parked until all this is over. I called Sara and told her. I could hear the disappointment in her voice. Please pray for her! Culture shock is hard enough and then add going through it for the first time during a civil war, well, she needs prayers.
This evening, the Posts invited us over for supper. It was very good and we had a good time of fellowship. The government has imposed a curfew because of the situation from 19:00 to 06:00 so we could not go to church again this evening. I sure am thankful for the friendship and fellowship of the Posts.
A demin,
Joe, Lo, Gil, DJ, and Boo