This is what a typical day in Kenya
looks like for me: wake up around 7:30 or 8am, breakfast (either
peanut butter and jelly or mondazi, or chipatti pancakes or cinnemon
rolls and hard boiled eggs and chai, morning prayer, free time until
around 11am when we gather up to walk around for hut to hut ministry,
lunch at around 2 (usually rice and beans or rice and potatoes or
tomato and onion sandwiches, or ugali) , hang out and play cards or
cornhole (in Wisconsin terms…bags or bag toss) have quiet time or
watch Community or nap, evening tea at 5pm, learn to cook with Ann,
kill a chicken with my bare hands, dinner around 8:30 or 9pm (usually
chipatti and potatoes or rice and beans or rice and potatoes or ugali
or pilau), feedback with the team, bedtime in my mosquito net bed
that I share with my teammate Carrie 🙂 Wake up around 2am to go to
the bathroom which is outside and we get locked in at night so I have
to wake up Emmy and Irene to let me out. Sleepy sleep until 7:30ish.
Hut to hut, killed a chicken, got my
hair braided and monday night raw– bret the hit man hart vs. the
undertaker from january 11, 1993. all within 24 hours. Ah the life of
a missionary.
We’ve had a very relaxed schedule here.
Except the night that I killed a chicken. Major step in my
life…killing my own dinner.
We leave Kenya in a week already and we
will be rafting the Nile…ya I know right? And then its Uganda time!
My team will be working with one other team and sleeping in hammocks
for the month in a thatched roof mud hut. I’m pumped!
Prayer Request: Please be praying for
team unity and also for Susan. I’m finishing up a 3 day fast for
Susan and praying for God’s healing hands to take control and heal
her. I’ve never done a 3 day fast before but God is continuing to
challenge me to see big things.
PICTURES: i’m struggling uploading video and pictures with the internet here so hopefully soon. I do have video footage of me killing the chicken…get pumped. 🙂
