Things are picking up speed and I find myself so tired but so energized. I'm wrapping up my official language lessons, but picking up mega-steam in what I'll be doing full-time soon enough. My boss goes state-side for a few months in March and wants me implemented by then – no pressure.

I'm forming and training a follow-up team and helping get all of our GPS locations of previous work into 1 database so we can see where we've been and where we're yet to go. We'll see where to need to... say.. follow up on the highest arsenic concentrations in drinking water tube wells, then be sure they have appropriate information, alternate water sources, medical teams, school teaching teams etc. Once we've gained their trust by having a consistent presence and Shared with them, hopefully the Death rate and illnesses will go down dramatically. I love it.

I've now eaten with, laughed with, and worked along side of poverty for a few months and there is no longer “them” and “us”... its not “these people” when I talk about them or remember them in prayer... ignorance hasn't made them any less fantastic and hospitable. Its “we”. I've never thought of myself as an arrogant person but at the end of the day it would be easy to fall into that trap here, seeing what I have and know based on what others have and know. Ironically, there is no possible way to be arrogant when you're surveying a village and covered with dirt. But for Grace this could've been me.