I never knew how brutal traveling to the other side of the world can be! We were almost to London and I wanted to change back into my contacts. I was in the middle of the middle row so getting in and out was time consuming so I ended up doing it at my seat - I took one an started putting it in my eye but unbeknownst to me the dumb fan was on and it blew my contact down between my legs and onto the floor so after looking in my bag and freaking out on the inside, Christina got up I got out of my seat and she went down on the floor and found it with her trusty mini mag light! Seriously. Who loses a contact on an airplane?!?
So you know when you're in an airplane and everything looks brown from the top but then once you get closer the colors appear and get vibrant? Well that didn't happen in Kenya. It was brown from the top and brain when we landed. Like Christina said "everything's pretty much brown. Brown people, brown dirt...."
so after 30 hrs of traveling we arrived at Hampton house to take a shower. I tried getting in the tub and the Mat in te shower wasn't attached to the ground so I slipped half way getting into the tub and pretty badly bruised my knee...I'm such a clutz but of course I blamed the tub like it came alive and attacked me.
We went to eat at java house - Mmm I had the chicken pita - totally expected Mediterranean style thingy but it was mexicanish. But really good!!
Village market is the Masai market on Fridays. It was so cool! Seeing how all te people try to sell you things and then there's the half dead men and women in their stalls - it was so interesting to me how some of the people just need a bandaid or quick fix by selling items and then there are the artisans who actually get it that you are there to help them and such. I really liked meeting all the people except for the weird lady who grabbed my arm to try and sell me something in her stall - I pulled away and said "don't touch me!!!" OH and I got a free keychain from wanjama who makes all the bone keychains for us! We found some cool new brass jewelry and new bags, baskets and it was fun to meet everyone and looks at Christina like she's the celebrity of village market! Everyone said "you are sisters!" so it was kind of cool that they noticed that.
We went to Elisha's (banana bark cards) workshop today - all I can say is WOW. He showed us how he makes his cards and he took us to his house to meet his wife and kids. She greeted us wearing her heavenly treasures tshirt and we prayed with them. It was my first Kenyan home! Elisha's workshop is about 10x10 - and his house is slightly larger but I know for sure that his whole house could fit inside my bedroom. We gave them some groceries and went on to see Abel's (gonga ways picture frames) workshop.
So amazing to meet the people he works with! I also had a great chat with his wife Elizabeth and we got to meet his children. They were so cute and his niece was also there, she kept hugging me and holding my hand. We gave them all lollipops and they were so excited- even the workers! His wife said that when Abel came home from visiting us in the US, she said a more handsome and healthy man came to her door and she's more in love with him than she was before. She said they can now pay school fees for their son to go to the best school in the area and he is doing well. She said that when they were starting gonga waya they had to borrow a chair from their neighbor for their house because it was so vacant and they were so poor but now they have moved and she has furniture in her house, food 4 meals a day and this handsome husband whom the workers said he came back looking like a professor lol.
I was able to share with them my own struggles and joys and it was amazing how they are just such a warm people with a deep faith in God despite their surroundings.
I am grateful to be able to be here and experience ministry with HT in a new way.
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