April 8-15, 2012

It’s the end of another week and as I sit and review the week I would have to say listening to conference was one of the high-lights for me. I just asked Bruce what he thought the highlight of the week was and he said “We made it home safely everyday” so that is pretty much a true statement and actually a high-light that we hope continues.

On the 11^th of April we were half-way through our mission. I wanted to celebrate and do something but bowling or a movie was out and we weren’t really hungry! Darn! So we just did a regular evening but it was fun to finally get to this day.

We had Friday off and I was busy working on personal histories and Bruce was working on member temple arrangements, when we got a special assignment to go pick up two sick elders and bring them in to the Dr. We left at 11:00 in the morning and did not return until 6:30. At one point we had to bow our heads and have a word of prayer in the truck because we were stuck in terrible traffic and the Doctors office was going to close. Almost immediately the traffic started to shuffle a bit and began to slowly move forward. We made it and the Dr. gave the OK on the Elders. Wild day but it turned out well.

Sunday we went to Ilima and because of the heavy rains the roads were thick with mud. The hillsides had sloughed off into the road and made it impassable. So we parked the truck and walked up to the chapel. This time I did not fall down in the mud Hurray. By the time we started down to the truck it was a little dryer and we had many children to escort us. They are so loving.

Skyline of Nairobi. A totally different view than what we see out to Kilungu Hills

After church, Branch President Simon and a young adult were challenged to see who could do the most push ups. He won easily, both were surprised.

The Ilima chapel got a new coat of paint and they added on at the back. It looks so nice.

Walking down to the truck with my sweet escorts. We sang primary songs as we went.

Two friends at church, both married and both members. The one with the white top fellowshipped who was baptised in November.