God's Little Perks

God loves to throw in little perks here and there. Yesterday afternoon our whole group went on a tour of the area. Our guides name was Gwema. I must say that I was quite thankful for my mom insisting on getting the bottle of 98.11% Deet. It came in handy during the first half-hour or less. We went down a red dirt road out side the compound and then after seeing a girraffe, went through the waist-high grass. We were covered in ticks! Well, everyone except for me. Then, after a while they began to cling to me also.



Every two minutes our entire group would have to stop and brush off all the ticks. When we returned to the tent, Jill wans't back yet so Katie and I stripped down and searched eachother. Tick free!

While Katie was in the shower, a man woring at Lukenya came in and the shower had stopped working. Jill and I had been filling water bottles so that Katie could was the soup from her hair. There wans't any power so we were doing this in very dim light.

After dinner the shower was working (they came in as soon as Katie was out and fixed it), but there wasn't any promised power. Every other tent had some except for ours.

As we were praying as a group and I began to pray aloud that Satan wouldn't tear our group apart, I began to cry and had my first case of home-sickness in over ten years. When we returned to our tent after the meeting, the power had just come on

We were so overjoyed at actually being able to see in our tent when five minutes later, it went completely dark. We radioed Chris to say it went out when it came back on again. God's little perks!

Soon after, I took a cold shower (no hot water yet) and went to bed with wet hair.

This morning, breakfast didn't sit quite right with me. While sitting on the bus, I had to put my head against the seat in front of me because I was so sleepy. Even after two Tylenol PMs last night I had still woken up several times.

The ride into Nairobi was eventful. There was construction so we had to go off-roading. Talk about exciting! When we went into Nairobi, they took us to where the US embassy had been before the bombing in 1998. I had never even known about it! There is now a park where it used to be. They say the embasy is now located outside Nairobi and is extremely hard to get into.

Afterwards, they took us to a big park thing where there was a big boy scout event. There were two bands in uniform, kids playing soccer in a small area marked out by lines on pavement and kids in orange shirts playing drums. We walked through there following Pastor Billy from Alamo City carrying the cross. We walked for a while and came to a bus stop and got on our busses. During that time which they call the "Prayer Walk" or "Cross Walk" I felt so thankful for such a wonderful opporitunity. I just felt so full of peace that I was just completely overjoyed! I can't find words to describe how I felt.

I now sit here for ever an hour at Pastor Petere's church in Nairobi. It's a tent with a sound system hidden betweeen apartments 5 stories high. It's 2:45 and lunch is lingering in all our minds.