Follow-up To Dinner Guests (by Amanda)

I am on a roll. I have been able to get two blog entries in a row written and now I am on a third! Those of you who are wondering what I have to write about should not be surprised that it is a follow up to our Tuesday dinner. All the things I worried about in the States seem to be pointless here. I should be more concerned with problems like not having power or the guests not understanding what day they have been invited.
Right before they were supposed to arrive I called and double checked that all was clear and it was a good thing I did. Pastor Christophe asked, “Was that tonight?” So we talked and he said they would be a little late which was no problem; I was just glad they were coming! The next issue was the power. We lost power a little before they arrived so we got to eat by candle light. Many of my concerns in having Malians over is that I won’t be able to communicate and that there will be awkward pauses, especially when his wife does not speak French and my husband doesn’t speak Bambara. So here we were all together and my concerns were for nothing as God transcends all barriers. There is the connection that goes beyond languages and we all had a good time. Praise God for his love and kindness to us.
PS. Oh, I forgot to mention what we had! I ended up making a beef pot pie. Our biggest trouble with it was explaining what it was! Thom looked it up in the French-English dictionary but it wasn’t there. He translated it literally but explained that it wasn’t really a pie like you would have for dessert. They seemed to like it though. I made a pineapple upside-down cake for the ‘real’ dessert.

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