Bouna!

Welp, here we are. Over a year after the last post. Man, I'm so good at this! :) I had a bunch of pictures that have been piling up and wanted to finally get on here to share them! So here they are.

jamming out on the bus

Loaded up on the bus and ready to go!

About a week after we got back with our team, we took a trip up north to a small town surrounded by villages for a mission trip/conference with about 100 students. It was incredible to see another part of Cote d'Ivoire and also a great time bonding with our new team and the students involved. We had times of teaching and training, evangelism, and each evening we sent out teams to show the Jesus Film. At the end of our week there were 700 people who had said they wanted to follow Jesus and that was really exciting! Here are some (OK,  lot) pictures from our week there!

A woman selling sweet bread on the road as we drove up

so artsy. haha! 

These women were the heroes of the week! They cooked all of our meals (for over 100 people, remember) over camp fires. It was incredible to watch as they chopped and simmered and grabbed things from the fire and pots with their bare hands or cardboard for potholders.

They were the sweetest and let me come down with Juliette and help whenever she was fussy!

Of course, Craig needed to try it out :)

Millet ready to be dried and boiled for breakfast

One of the giant pots waiting for things to be simmered

Slicing meat into chunks

There were a bunch of animals around. Baby piggies!

Tons of goats!!

The kids found friends! The conference was held at a church and these kids lived in a house on the property.

They had a blast playing with them!

This little guy was so so cute!

Snuggle bug

cows!!!

Me and my sweet Flora

Some kids waiting for the Jesus film to start

The Jesus Film equipment ready to go and waiting for the sun to set fully.

Another thing that we did was we gave clothing and supplies to a few widows that are involved in local churches. This woman only spoke her tribal tongue so we could not communicate sadly, but everyone loves snuggling sleepy babies!

She had something wrong with her feet and had some handmade crutches to help

Craig with Kouadio and Olivier

This goat was tied to the top of the bus and brought back to Abidjan

Our house help, Ange was able to come with us

Elliot eating some breakfast

In one of the prayer meeting times

Washing some dishes

Some kids from a village

Everyone kept tripping over this root, so they dug it up!

Our kids' sweet friend

Dirty face

Why is she so precious?!

Heading out to show the Jesus Film

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baby yoga

In the village where Craig went to do the Jesus Film showing

The women making food

Craig wanted to give it a try

Lucy greeting a woman

This woman said she needed a picture with her husband, Keenan :)

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The group 

Some of the girls

Elliot found these broken glasses and claimed them as his own

They dug out the drainage system in a couple parts of the town. They had been full of trash and flooding in the rains, so for part of an outreach the guys dug out the junk, clearing a path for the water, making it so there will be less standing water for mosquitos as well.

The kids sleeping soundly in their tent to keep the mosquitos out :)

And there it is. Our whole week. It was amazing and exhausting all at the same time. I am so thankful we all went and grateful for kids up there who played with our kids so well! Hope you enjoyed a little peek of northern Cote d'Ivoire!