“LET’S DO THIS!...oh...okay, never mind.”

So it’s Friday night right, and we are so stoked to be doing a full day of ministry in a town/village called Abomey on Saturday (the next day). Even though we had to leave at 6am, we were so looking forward to spending the 3 hour drive to hang out with the team, to arrive ready to do ministry and spread God’s love to the people! *Ring*Ring*...Oh hold on, the phone, 2 seconds...IT’S CANCELLED?!?
That was definitely our reaction Friday night. It was 10pm and the last thing we expected to happen was that we would get a phone call saying that the pastor that is coming with us to do follow-up and was our main contact couldn’t come anymore. So there we were, 10pm Friday night, everybody else on the team thinking that they had to be ready at 6am the next day. After all that conversation, we find out that even with the pastor backing out, we still are going because of a meeting we were performing at. K cool, the event is still on! *Ring*Ring*...Oh 2 seconds once again, so sorry, the phone...”No point in going for just the meeting eh?”
Then we get a call saying that there is no point in going that whole way just for the meeting, which makes sense because it was a 3-hour drive, but then we had to phone the whole team and...*Ring*Ring*...I AM SO SORRY, the phone once again, man it is ringing off the hook tonight!...We still might do ministry but you are not sure where or when?
We then found out that we could still do ministry but that we wouldn’t really know where or when or how till the next day. So there we stood, late Friday night, having to quickly think fast on what to do. Cancel the whole thing because it is too complicated now and we wouldn’t be able to get a hold of the whole team, and there would be miscommunications anyway or just tell the team that the village thing is cancelled but wait for a phone call that might come and we might have to meet at the church? We ended up just calling the whole thing off because it was getting late and we had to tell people to not be at the church at 6am, or someone would not be too impressed being there all alone at that time in the morning! Eek....Be right back...Our turn to phone people now *Ring*Ring*Ring*Ring*Ring*Ring*
We were indeed disappointed that the whole event was cancelled, but we couldn’t really do anything about it so we just ended up hanging out with some friends on Saturday, and relaxing. It’s crazy how different this culture is from Canada. Here, it seemed like it was so nonchalant and not a big deal that a huge event was cancelled like a few hours prior, even though we felt so so bad that we had to cancel on the team so last minute! It is really cool though how everyone is just very laid back and has a ‘whatever happens, happens’ attitude! We have definitely had to adjust to that though, because it has on a couple occasions already happened that people have cancelled like very very close to the event or appointment, so we just have to get used to that I guess!