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Here, there, and everywhere. In AFRICA

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I haven't posted a blog in three weeks for two reasons.  One, we have been consumed with office work and missionary support work and countless errands and putting out of fires, etc, ect, none of which is exciting to my reading audience nor even to myself sometimes.  Much as I love this work, there has been little of adventure to post.  And second, we have had time to breathe and pee and sleep (most of the time), but little else.  Our office is a beehive of activity, and with 90+ junior missionaries in need of constant support or help or supplies or funds or medical advice, we are at it most days from 8:30 am until 9:00 pm and sometimes much later.   I took on the role of mission nurse a couple of weeks back, and some days have received only a handful of urgent requests for perceived dire situations (or not!) but other days have been quite consumed with trips to the doc, the lab, the pharmacy, the hospital.  There will be much celebration when our new mission nurse arrives to reliev