Bougouni

Bougouni is about 2hr and 45 min South of Bamako. This is where Mom and Dad Walker go every other week.

The pictures are of some of the wives and children of Dad's Bible school students. Mom and I got to "help" in the "kitchen" last week.

I have to say that I felt completely inadequate in a Malian "kitchen". I'm not sure how much help I was! This lady is at her stove/oven. Each family has one in front of their home-which is usually a 2 room cinder block structure with few or no windows.

The lady in yellow is stirring her "toe soup". It is basically a paste made out of millet. Mom got to help sift kilos of millet flour. I got to cut lots of green onions without a cutting board and crush onions with a mortar and pestle. (That means I crushed them in a wooden bowl, using a large, wide stick).

Everyday these women get wood for their fires. Most of their day consists of gathering and making food.












This is Rebekah and her little girl in their house.

Christmas Vacation

Well, I survived the holidays without being with either of our families. And, I'm still here! Even though it was a different Chritsmas, some good things happened over break.

Briant's parents sent us some goods from the U.S. I never knew that I would consider freezer bags such a luxury!!! Can you see all the blue boxes on the ground?


On New Year's Eve, we went to "The Rocks". We climbed one up on these huge bolders and had a camp fire that night.












This is Jake, the FO from Texas.




































While setting off some fireworks on New Year's Eve, our group started some brush fires. They got really big but went our fairly quickly. Everything is very dry here.