Echoing Ezra's prayer

I remember that first night in Mangodara in the southern part of Burkina Faso in West Africa. We had traveled 9 hours from the capital city, Ouagadougou. Much of the final few hours of the trip were navigated on “roads” that needed four wheel drive. Mangodara was a town of over 5,000 people, but there was no running water and no electricity. The “hotel” we were staying in was a cement building wit…