Hey everyone, just thought I'd drop an update of my day to you all. Well, today Grace, Mrs Flude, Emma and I were at the neighbors house visiting and drinking some Madedee (a Chadian milet drink) for a couple hours. After a while of sitting in the hot dry sun, we decided it was time to take off.
Before going inside the house we wanted to go say hi to an elder neighbor lady across the street. As we came up to her hut, we all heard yelling and turned to see two young boys (around 13 or 14) stuck in the mud beating thier horse trying to get a huge wagon of bricks unstuck! After a long while of whipping and beating the horse nearly to the point where it was about to buckle, they decided to start throwing bricks at the poor animal! Grace Mrs Flude and I were absolutely horrified and there was no way we were going to just stand there and watch. SO Grace and I decided it was time to step in.
Whitnessing all the neighbors just standing around laughing at the two boys, not even helping them we'd had enough. As Grace ran home fast to grab Payton, I kicked my shoes off and headed over to where the boys were. As soon as I started slipping and sloshing through the mud the entire neighborhood and all the Chadians standing around started clapping and roaring with laughter, and a croud gathered to watch. They couldnt believe what they were seeing! I didn't care. They eventually stopped laughing when they saw I didn't care at all.
Soon after I reached the boys Grace came running over to help and we started yelling at the boys to stop hitting the horse because it had finally colapsed. The looks on thier faces were absolutely priceless. They had just been publically humiliated by two white American girls in front of everyone lol. They immediatly stopped.
A couple minutes later all the little Chadian children also started pitching in to help to get the horse out of the mud, while the older kids were yelling at us to stop helping and that it was bad. We didn't care. The horse finally got out, and after about fifteen minutes of repliling bricks back on the wagon, the job was finished. While one of the boys road off to take the horse home, the other just kept saying thank you over and over again.
Covered in mud, Grace and I went to quickly take a shower. We didn't want worms. Even though it was a smelly mess, it was well worth it. Praise the Lord for his prompting spirit=)
Oh and by the way, thank you mom for redoing this blog page for me! Love you lots=)
-Libby Derouin.
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3 comments:
Way to go Libby and Gracey!!
Good for you! Wow Libs, you've come a long way from the little girl who said, "I think I'm going to throw up" when she got a little mud splashed on her!!
Love you :-)
mom
I am loving hearing about your experiences. Very proud of you for how you handled the situation with the horse! Keep the stories coming :D
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