Yaounde!

My friends,

Thursday night, we arrived back in Yaounde after a 13 hour drive. Praise the Lord for the clear and fairly nice roads – no overturned logging trucks and the perfect amount of rain to keep the dust down while not creating too much mud.

The last week in Yokadouma was a busy one. A literacy worker from SIL and a project coordinator from CABTAL came down to work with COCELMPU for the week. Good fellowship, conversation, and learning filled the week. The last 3 days in Yokadouma were spent with electricity for a few hours during the day, and no water. A new experience for both Audrey and I – take a moment and thank God for your running water and electricity! (there is also a story about waiting at the airstrip for 4 hours before driving the pilot and 2 passengers home on roads “slick as snot on a doorknob” for an impromptu lay-over. Ask me sometime!)

These next two weeks Audrey and I will be busy working on a video outlining the exciting things happening within COCELMPU (hopefully for you to see eventually!) and working on our individual reports (My report for school should be finished (as in final copy) sometime this week or early next week). Pray for us as we try and communicate clearly and effectively!

Also, keep Henny, David, and all of SIL Cameroon branch in your prayers this week as the Executive Committe (which Henny chairs) is meeting this week to plan branch conference (week after next) and also for all the SIL members working in Cameroon as we attend Spiritual retreat.

I have another 15 days left in Cameroon – it's amazing how the time has gone! Pray for me as I start trying to process information before I get home, for rest, and for patience as sometimes I lose focus on the here and now. When I arrive back in Canada I have the privilege of spending 3 days with my Family and Ben and time to have a quick visit with a good friend of mine before she leaves for 4 months and I start school again. The coming transitions will be tough, but really exciting! I'm so excited to share some of the things that I have learned here. It's amazing the things God has taught and the many ways I've been able to grow. Thanks be to our patient God and your prayers!

Thank you for praying my friends – continue your prayers for COCELMPU – this is only the beginning!

As for God, his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is flawless.
He is a shield
for all who take refuge in him.
For who is God besides the Lord?
And who is the Rock except our God?
It is God who arms me with strength
and makes my way perfect.
He makes my feet like the feet of a deer;
he enables me to stand on the heights.
He trains my hands for battle;
my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
You give me your shield of victory,
and your right hand sustains me;
you stoop down to make me great.
You broaden the path beneath me,
so that my ankles do not turn.

Psalm 18:30-36 (NIV)

What a comforting, guiding, perfect God we serve.
And we can know Him intimately, in our own language.

Andrea