A Fresh Start

I started writing this blog entry at around 11pm last night but kept falling asleep while I was writing. Haha So it's a day late sorry. I will write another one for today in a minute. :)

New Years Day. Wow. It's the beginning of a new year, with so many possibilities! :)

Today was a little better according to my sleepiness, hehe. And tonight, I think I'm gonna get to go to bed before midnight... Maybe ;)

We left for the village around 9am this morning to go to church at 10am. We split our group into 2 teams to go to 2 different churches to fellowship with all the people there.

I keep talking about the team but haven't really introduced them. Well, When we came on the 30th, it was only half of us. The other half arrived here tonight about an hour ago. So now we are all officially here. :) the first group I came with consisted of: Brenda (leader), Rebekah, Ellen, Nathan, and Tom & Nancy. The ones that came tonight consist of: Doug (Brenda's husband), Jamie, Elizabeth & Denise Pointdexter (mother and daughter), and Deb.

Anyway, back to the village. The Church I went to was cool. We prayed and sang songs and collected offering. :) Mind you it was all in swahili but we had a translator, which was nice. His name is Evanston. We got up and introduced ourselves and they asked Ellen if she would like to speak and she gave a wonderful sermon about having a fresh start and how God completely saves us. It was great. Plus they said the Lords prayer and I actually recognized it when they started. It was neat. Church lasted about an hr and a half. Btw, there was no speakers or lights or microphones. Only the sound of voices, a drum, and a music triangle, which was actually a circle haha. It was sooo awesome to just watch Gods children worship!
After church we headed back down to the clinic, where we played with some of the kids. :) We taught them the electric slide, to Kelly clarksons' song "since u been gone". They loved it :)

While we were there some of the kids, hung around and played with my hair! They think my hair is so strange cuz it's so different from there's. :)

We left the village around 4pm to go shop for souvenirs and eat dinner. The place we went to get souvenirs was called the Masai market and I guess you could compare it to Chinatown in NYC. You had to barter, and I am NO good at that haha! But I got Nancy and Tom to help me and be my body guards. Haha! It was a lot of fun! After, we got done we went to the "java House" for dinner. It was really good and I got to have good, fresh fruit! :) it was really yummy.

We then started our journey back to the guest house for some MUCH needed rest! I got to bed early and slept well!

Thank you so much for your prayers! They have definitely been a huge help and blessing. :) more to come.