If someone was sick, they would take an egg and something like a porridge that they would pour out onto the ground and crack that egg and kneel and pray in a certain direction where they had a fetish, where their clan worshipped, and ask for help for that child’s illness. She chose Upper Volta and after arriving in 1954 she had six months to learn the Gourma language.
They asked me to go to a French country and I said yes I would go and that meant I had to go to France to study French in Paris for seven months, because the country was under the control of the French government and they wanted us to study French in Paris not in Canada.”Īs she was learning French, she was asked to chose one country from three choices: Benin, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger. “Before that I told the Lord whatever the mission board says I’m going to accept that as His will. “I met with the mission board when I was studying French (1953) I said “I hope the Lord never sends me to French West Africa.” When they asked me if I was willing to go to French West Africa because they needed nurses there, so I sort of hesitated and they realized that I had hesitated… She hoped she wouldn’t have to go to West Africa though. The 95-year-old shared her story with The Carillon.Īfter nursing school, she decided to join SIM and go to Africa to do good and spread the gospel. SVJETLANA MLINAREVIC The CarillonĮlizabeth Eichhorst spent 22 years as a nurse in Burkina Faso and 38 years spreading the word of God in the country. Eichhorst was stationed there as a nurse for 22 years with the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM). It had a landing strip for a bush plane to deliver supplies and transport people. It’s located in the bush with unreliable roads into the village. Mahadaga is 500 kilometers from the country’s capital Ouagadougou. This is one of the many stories from Africa that Eichhorst shared with The Carillon. Then she ran out the door to get the night guard that was on sentinel duty to dispose of the body. She took off her flip flop and thwacked the snake repeatedly.
She went into her bedroom to put on her night gown and returned to the bathroom to find a viper in the spot where moments ago she had been standing. Betty Eichhorst had just finished taking a shower in her little house in Mahadaga, Upper Volta.
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