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Apparently, to our surprise, we have entered the rainy season that will last until we leave in July apparently! We are definitely glad to hear that, even though it hasn’t rained yet. It has on the other hand been really overcast and humid which creates A LOT of dust to be everywhere and in everything floating around! Patrice said that this is very unusual, it should already have started raining by now so that the dust goes away, but for a week now dust has just been getting like thicker and thicker and has basically consumed the air! Eeek! Me being hypoallergenic doesn’t really cope well with that! My allergies have been acting up severely in the past few days so I pray that it will rain soon so that the dustiness will go away! It’s actually insane, every day we wake up, there is a thick layer of dust on everything in the living room, not even exaggerating. We have to wipe down the whole living room every day because the next morning, a huge thick layer of dust is on everything again!

Oh how I could go for a vanilla bean or strawberries and cream frappucino from Starbucks right now!

DRIME Benin is on its way! We put together and handed out all the leader’s applications! We are going to get them all back Sunday, and then much prayer is in order for the next week to choose our leaders for DRIME Benin, so exciting!

There’s no place like...homes? I can’t wrap my head around it at all because it’s crazy, but it honestly feels like, in a good way, that we have lived here forever! Last night we looked back on pictures and videos of us arriving here in Benin and such, and we all agreed that we can’t even fathom how that was only 1.5 months ago, it feels like it was an eternity ago. In the same manner, it just feels like this is how we live now, and how we have always lived. Benin is starting to feel a lot like home now! To be honest, I never thought it would feel like home, just because, well, it’s not home. But it definitely feels like home now! I have two homes now.

We are participating in an evangelism event this Saturday in Abomey, a village about 3 hours from where we live! We are all very excited to do ministry in a village for the first time, should be an awesome full day! Definitely going to be very tired though because we have to leave our house at 6am-ish then we are there the entire day, then we drive back at night, then wake up extra early for church because it’s starting an hour early this week because of the annual general meeting after the service! It’s going to be an awesome yet tiring full weekend!

Tuesday morning we had a meeting with the Head Leader’s of all the Baptist Churches. After doing our spiel, they had many questions for us which showed much interest in the DRIME ministry which is exciting. They wanted to know about how DRIME works, how the partnership with the churches would look like, and right there in the meeting they even went as far to call someone and ask about us coming with them on an evangelism campaign/event they are leading! They took to DRIME right away and we’re on board. They told us that they were going to give us a full list of the churches we could visit to share, and the date to attend them. They also wanted to know if we would plan an evangelism campaign with them in a couple months! We definitely have the Baptist Churches partnered with us by the looks of it! Praise God! This Saturday they are going up to a village to do ministry and wanted to know if we would join them. Right away we said that we were unable to due to the fact that we are already doing ministry this Saturday. As it turns out, they are going up to that same village to have a meeting and do ministry on Saturday, just at a different time than when we were going to go with our church! So now we are going up the full entire day to do ministry twice in the same village! So awesome how God works everything out!