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ANDA...

AFRICA
June 9- 25 2008

*17 days

*20+ people

*7500 miles away from MI

*34 hours in flight

*7 hours time difference

*2 stuffed bags

*8 hour bus ride to Gulu

*23 acholi words/ phrases

*4 words actually remembered

*20 mangos in a bag

*2 churches

*1 orphanage

*500 salvation story bracelets

*1 rat "friend" named Nigel

*90 lbs. of snack food

*1 monkey in a hotel room

*4 Samuels as translators

*1000+ laughs

*1 bright green chameleon in the road

*1 older woman that stole my heart

*8 baboons by the Nile

*50 ants on my legs

*1 letter a day from the "post office"

*countless: children- smiles- dances- songs- stars in the sky- flies- drier sheets- bottles of pineapple mirinda- huts- mosquito nets- dirt paths- plates of rice & beans- dollars exchanged to shillings- water bottles used as toys- conversations with people- tears- words translated- wounds tended- chairs for welcoming- new brothers & sisters in Christ...

*1 wonderful trip

*1 amazing GOD