Monday started with our first lecture. Our speaker was a sweet lady from Uganda named Margret. I knew the first day that she had something special in her. I could sense the relationship she had with Lord as peace and love shined out of her whatever she said or did. As I learned by the end of the week, I wasn’t wrong.
I also started going jogging again on Monday and did that throughout the week. Laura joined me the first day and it was really nice. The other days I went alone but couple of kids joined me for a while when they saw a mzungu passing by their house. It was really sweet and I talked some Swahili with them, yeah I am doing better every day! It is kind of my favorite part of the day so far. I mean the running part that is. It is so nice and peaceful here surrounded by the beautiful nature and animals. I simply LOVE it! Whenever I get tired of running, I just walk and meditate and trust me, it is impossible to not feel God’s present.
One thing I didn’t love so much this week was doing the laundry. Luckily my dear friend Mary helped me to do it, but woow, I really admire Kenyan women (like Prudence) who except doing their own laundry, also do their husband’s and kids’. What a hard work that is!
We played soccer a lot this week as well. Africa is kind of made for it, I feel. It is so fun, because the ground is full of cow’s poop, so you actually HAVE to dribble between it lol. And they are really good at it as well, Kenyans that is.
On Friday was my sister’s 23rd birthday and I realized that it was the 4th year I hadn’t seen her on her birthday. Pretty crazy and unbelievable, but I guess that’s one of the sacrifices of being world traveler. I did call her and it was so nice to hear her voice :) Friday was a great day and actually I think the best day I have had in Kenya so far. Not only because we had chapati, because we have it on every Friday, but two cool things happened. First, it was Margret’s last teaching day, so she did ministry on each one of us. I think it was the first time for me to be prophesized and it was amazing. I will never forget it. Angela wrote it down for me in my notebook, so that I can always look at it. Lot of people saw the same things happening in my future and felt the same obstacles holding me back. I won’t write about it all as it would be too long, but two things that stood out for me were that :” I’m a temple of Holy Spirit and God has more planned for me than I even desire at this time.” Powerful words from powerful people and I will do my best to protect that treasure He has given me.
Friday night ended with a fun night, but before that I had one-on-one with Eleanor. Eleanor is Joram’s wife and one of our staff members. She is really sweet and friendly but also very beautiful, I mean very beautiful. So we had a great talk with her and I found out a lot about her life. During the time though I kept thinking all the time if I should tell her that I thought she was beautiful. I wasn’t sure because maybe it is weird for Kenyans. So I decided not to. Just after I had decided that, she told me that she thinks I am very beautiful so I couldn’t help myself of bursting out with laughter. Then of course I told her that I just wanted to tell her the same and she started laughing as well. It was really funny! Shortly after that we had our fun night where all of the DTS students and most of the staff members played games and ate some sweets. It was fun indeed and a perfect end for a perfect school week.
On Saturday we had our first ministry in an orphanage called “Springs of Hope”. It was located in a nearby town called Machakos. It was one of the saddest as well of one of the most beautiful days in Kenya so far. There were about 15 toddlers and almost same amount of kids ages 3-6. We divided our DTS group into different little groups and helped out the staff in the orphanage. I was lucky enough to get the group of taking care of the babies. How good it felt to hold these little bodies and give them as much love as I could in these 3 hours we spent there. We played with them, feed them and put them to bed. I got really close to a baby girl who was the most beautiful baby I have ever seen. She seemed to like me a lot as well and I couldn’t help tearing down when she started crying when it was time for me to go. Her name was something similar to Evelyn but not quite the same. I definitely miss her already and can’t get these little eyes of hers out of my mind. I can’t wait for another weekend to go back. Malaika mtogo!
Yesterday was Sunday and we had our first ministry in a church. We( the DTS students) were divided into 5 groups. In my group there were Boniface, Anna and Ben. All of the groups went to different churches and we all had to either sing a song or preach. Anna and I sang, as we weren’t quite ready for preaching yet, so Boniface did that part. I wouldn’t say it was my favorite experience. At first there was about 20min of walking to do to find the right church from among 500 other churches in the same slum. The streets were really dirty and obviously no one had ever seen a white person before. I just kept repeating “missionary stomach, missionary stomach” to myself and kept going. After a while it wasn’t so bad anymore and people actually started smiling back. Little before 10am we finally found the right church and stayed there for the next 4 hours. Yes, 4!!!! I have never been in such a long service and it wasn’t actually finished yet when we left. I don’t know if there was something wrong with me, but after 2 hours in a hot little room I got really restless and hoped to be back home, I mean at the base. Little did I know that we will be back at the base slightly before dinner time. It was so far the longest Sundays ever and I couldn’t have been more mad at myself for not doing my homework on Friday.
Keeta, it was so nice to talk with you!!!! Miss you guys a lot :)
What you are is God’s gift to you. What you do with yourself is your gift to God. ( Danish proverb)
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Go, Kadi!:D
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