Progress

Oftentimes, progress seems slow. However, it’s kind of exciting when you can see marked difference! I had the opportunity to travel with some missionaries who have been here from Nebraska out to the villages of Bagarmi and Garbabi, which are two places that I visited on my initial tour o’ Nigeria when I first arrived.

Last Sunday we traveled to the small village of Bagarmi to attend worship because one of the churches in Nebraska has a partnership with it. When I had gone there in August, we had celebrated the well that had been installed and this time the church had been upgraded from a dirt floor to a cement floor! It was also fun to recognize some familiar faces.

Then on Tuesday, we went back to the Bible training school in Garbabi. There, we had identified the place where a borehole well was to be drilled. The students were all having to haul water from a river multiple kilometers away where the illness, River Blindness, runs rampant. This time, it was so exciting to be able to see the joy that the students are all receiving from having a hand pump well making clean water much more accessible to everyone! It was also neat that many of the people remembered me from back in August!

While many people may have the opportunity to come and do short-term work, there are really some great blessings that can only come with being somewhere for an extended period of time. These simple projects have all come to fruition over the past 6 months that I've been here. It’s pretty sweet to partake in the celebrations!!