Update

So I'm in Togo, for those of you that don't know. The second team, that was flying from Washington to Ghana, got turned around twenty minutes into their flight and delayed a day. Because of that, myself and the other guy that I was with, got to join their flight and get to Togo a little earlier than planned. A fight broke out on the initial flight to Ghana and one of the guys began threatening the flight attendants, so they decided to turn the flight around and return to Washington, which btw made national news and it turns out that the flight was escorted by fighter jets. Kyle, the guy I was with, and I had a flight to Washington, then Frankfurt, then Paris, then Togo. Our flight out of KC got delayed two hours and we missed our flight to Germany, but because the other team was still in Washington, we were able to join their flight and eventually made it to Togo.

When we all made it to Togo we found out that there had been some rioting at the university that we were supposed to work at and the military came in to shut it down. The general consensus among the Togolese is that the university should reopen soon, but we'll see. In the mean time, my group has gone through orientation and has been able to stock up on food. Yesterday our group leader went to buy clothes for the orphanage and the rest of us went to buy food for them, I was in charge of finding good rice. Other than that we've been finding things to do around town.

Tom, the missionary that prepared a lot of what we're doing, left to go to Niger, which means I am now the primary French speaker. This essentially is my first time in a Francophone country, meaning I've never really been able to use my French in a practical sense. On Sunday my group had to meet with some church/school officials to discuss a possible partnership. Only one of the officials spoke English, and it wasn't much better than my French, which meant I had to translate some of the dialogue between them and us. Even though I was nervous and a little worried that I wasn't translating it correctly, it felt awesome to finally use all the French that I've been taught.

If you fill anyone in that doesn't know about my situation that would be awesome. I'd also ask that those of you reading this continue to pray for my team and me, and that you'd specifically pray for the university to reopen so that we can begin to do more work. Thanks.