Rod Ragsdale is an amazing person. Space does not allow all the ways he serves the people of Côte d'Ivoire. He's great with tools and machines, keeps bees, plants and properly prunes trees, conversant in several languages, cultures, theology, and philosophy. I could list much more. But one of his greatest talents is that he knows how to laugh... and to make people laugh. At the end of a long day of putting tin on the house of worship, he converted two lift poles into a pair of stilts, and then repeatedly attempted to show us how to use them.