Thankfulness

Long time, no talk, right? We found a internet spot that costs 5 shillings per minute and has a super fast connection speed. FYI 80 shillings is about 1 dollar. We are waiting on dan to run some errands giving us more time to browse the internet.


Yesterday after I posted, we met with some congo refugees in Kenya. Man oh man was that an eye opening experience. We traveled an hour or so on a long bus ride and walked through a street full of roaming goats and chickens and arrived at this tiny blue garage door. There was a smaller door and we walked inside. It was kinda like an apartment complex with community bathrooms. We walked up to the second level and to the end and into the Congonese apartment which was a room the size of my bed room at home, with one large bed and 11 faces staring back at us. This family has been pretty well off in the congo, one was a businessman selling gold and diamonds and the wife was a seamstress when the country went into civil war. This family has 4 kids of their own and has "adopted" three others who were orphaned and also looks after the younger siblings. They just wanted to have some fellowship with us because two of the siblings are over in america and go to Dan and Emily's old church. They wanted to sit and talk to us about their journey to Kenya and then wanted to know about how we got to kenya.
Everything was spoken in swahili so we had dan translate for us. All i can say is that i was holding back tears the whole time. 8 of the 11 actually live in this small room together and 3 stay at their church. I just feel blessed with what I have been given and know that nothing is really secure in this world, one day you can have a solid job and the next, nothing.

Emily is seeing if the woman of the family would be interested in stitching bags for her online store to sell so that they will have some form of profit and potentially can use the profit to start their own business. This is realistic due to the dad's work in business before they left the congo.