Wow, it’s hard to believe that this was our last full day here and we only have “one more sleep” We don’t know if that is a good or a bad thing. It is definitely a sad thing because we have made many friendships.
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The morning started with the oxen showed up to plow the field and get it ready for planting – even though the other people around have already mostly planted their crops – better now because Pastor told us that the rains have not really come yet. I wonder what it will really be like when they hit!
This is Elvis up painting the one gable end of the building and then the second floor. He is an orphan that came to help work here. He lives with his very aged grandmother and his younger sister. He has finished his grade 12 and now is hopeful to get into medical lab. training.
This is John -half the time I am answering to the guys calling for him because when they say John it sounds just like Joan. He is Pastor Martin Obuya’s son, also finished grade 12. He was hoping to do surveying but his marks will not allow for that. In the meantime he was going to take driving school – saving what he had been paid for the past 2 months. The night that he had just left his home for a few minutes, someone had come into his house and taken the money that he had saved. He was so disappointed the next day but was soon laughing and joking with the guys. Life is difficult here but the people seem to have the attitude that tomorrow will be better so they are able to keep right on going.
Tonight we had a thank you meal for the men who have worked with us. A huge pot of cooked rice, ugli (corn maize flour & water cooked), stewed beef & potatoes and cooked kale. The men heaped up their plates and talked and laughed the whole meal. As I have said many times – we have a wonderful team to work with the last 2 months. But the work continues even with us being away. There is already a list of 20 things that I could think of – plus what Pastor Chamah will have. Tonight the stairs are being built and will be, hopefully, installed tomorrow morning. The verandah is 1/3 finished and hopefully there is enough time tomorrow before we leave at 1:30 pm to complete it or at least most of it so that Victor and Evans can continue with the metal roof. They both have said that they now know how to build a house from the ground foundation to the roof – or so they said at supper. Another thing John said that he learned was to say thank you. Before you had even done the thing that was asked, we were saying thank you and that was some thing that he wanted to put into a habit for his own life. Little things that we don’t even think about but are being picked up as they, at first, laughed that we would say thank you before it was even done but later realized how nice it was and that it was a good biblical trait to have.
Well, we will attempt to talk again before we leave Kenya one last time. See you soon.