Jambo

Hello all-

I hope this post finds you well. After an extremely long trip, Laura and I arrived in Kenya safely. We were picked up from the airport by Dan and Emily and are staying in an apartment in Nairobi until Saturday. This apartment a brand new apartment that Dan's brother, June, and his wife Lilian live in. There is one more girl staying with us while her college is on strike and her name is Sylvia but goes by the name Sly. The day we arrived and got settled in, we went on a walk through the streets to a near by shopping center. We passed a few slums on the way and the biggest slum in the world is located close by our apartment. Its called Kibera. There are approximately 800ppl/km in this slum. After returning from our walk we watched some Kenyan and Mexican soap operas until dinner was ready, and it was great. After dinner I had my first experience taking a splash shower. The apartment has a shower but the water is freezing cold so Emily boiled some water for me, stuck it in a bucket, and told me to have at it. After the shower, Laura and I crashed for the evening, nested together in one bed sharing the same mosquito net. It was cute and felt amazing having a bed after sleeping on the hard floor of an airport and seats of the plane.

Today we had breakfast and then went to down town Nairobi to run some errands. It rained all day, so we put on our little rain coats and started walking to find a Matatu which is the public transportation here... and the drivers are what we might call "confident" or "fearless". Dan said that drivers generally follow the rules of the roads but the Matatu driver's blood boils and they do everything they can to break the rules of the road and drive fast. No worries, we are all still alive and well! Nairobi is a constant bustle of people and traffic which never slows down. It was amazing. Laura and I were glad we had Dan and Emily to lead us and make decisions for us because we would be completely lost without them.

We are spending our time in Nairobi until next Saturday when a youth group is coming in town and going with us to the village. Our original plans changed due to the amount of rain that is still going on here making traveling even more hectic to and from the village.

Thanks for reading and praying for us. Please continue to pray for safety, health, and opportunities for us to be used for the Lord's will while we are over here.

-Christy