Today was the first day of our second teaching series. Just when you thought Rwanda couldn’t possibly get any cooler, we left Byumba for Kageyo (Kuh-jay-yo) and it got Way Cooler. If somebody told me right now that God put the Garden of Eden in Rwanda, I would totally believe it.

The amount of people at the training was slightly smaller at 25 and there was more of a language barrier, as none of them spoke any english at all. But the dynamics of the teachings was even better than last week. Everybody rocked and by now, the lessons are practically memorized. Cindy managed to surprise us all with an impromptu heartfelt African-drum-lead praise & dance session.

In other news, the baboon decided to pay our room a visit last night. Just about 10 pm we lost power in the Guest House and decided to hit the hay with nothing better to do. While laying there in the dead quiet and pitch black, without any warning whatsoever, the baboon smashed into the glass sending the window crashing open directly above Peter’s head. This led to much chaos and laughing on my and Brian’s part. Peter — not so much. Somehow, the hunters have become the hunted but I keep trying to reassure Peter that Rocky the Baboon just wanted to hang out.

After the lesson today, we were blessed with yet another awesome surprise and were introduced by Pastor Elson to Pastor Meg Guillebaud, who is 3rd generation missionary in Rwanda. We sat with her at her house over coffee and tea as she gave us a brief testimony of her life which was absolutely amazing. Meg’s grandfather did the first Bible translation of greek to Kinyarwandan and her father did the first Good News translation. She herself has done more for Chrisitian efforts in this country than I could even begin to recount.

Without a doubt whatsoever, I’m blessed to be with an awesome team in a trully awesome land and it just keeps getting better and better.

We ARE in paradise.

-Johnny a.k.a. Yohanna

P.S. Tomorrow we go banana picking (for Rocky the Baboon)