Fun Sunday!!

The Lord amazes me, His blessings are beyond my comprehension. Today has been a really fun day, and it is a Sunday at that (Sunday's are usually hard). We went to church, out to lunch and then spent the rest of the day swimming (in a pool that had to be about 50% urine, judging by the amount of people and the color of the water). But when Africa is hot and the water is cool somehow the color of the water doesn't seems to matter that much. The blessing wasn't in being able to go to a pool (although that was fun), it wasn't the fact that I can finally swim among bacteria without going through a mental list of the possible diseases I could contract. The blessing was good friends and awesome fellowship. It was talking about the Lord and encouraging each other to keep running the race, even though it is hard. It was laughing and praying and playing and eating pancakes. It was the fact that I truly believe that my Jesus brought a team over from Canada just to encourage my sweet Nattie and Cassie (the team has actually done so much more than this, but this is an answer to prayer). When we first got here Nattie asked us to pray for a friend for her. I could tell that it was really bothering her because she lost her spark. Since we got here she just hasn't been the Nattie we know; until Grayson arrived. He is a five year old boy with a love for pretend and movies (what more could Nattie ask for) they are two peas in a pod and Nattie is finally back to her old self. Grayson has a twelve year old sister named Dani, who Cassie absolutely loves. Cass needed a friend also and Dani was that gift. Cassie is struggling with the fact that Dani is leaving soon and she will once again be friendless. Cass and I had a great conversation about God, and how he gives us gifts in life; sometimes those gifts are for a long period of time, and sometimes they are for just a season. But we should always be thankful for those gifts.

Today is Monday and I just didn't have it in me to finish this late last night. My eyes were burning, due to the sewage swim or the late night hour I will never know, but alas I am back ready to finish my blog. Tom is flying to Nairobi tomorrow morning and driving home Wednesday. Yes, you heard me right, he is going to pick up our car, I am not going to get too excited about it until I see the car here in Kisumu. Please pray for Tom's safety as he drives home, the roads are terrible and the drive is long. We are blessed to have one of the other missionaries (Mike) go with Tom to help him get back here (as there are no road signs!). Just four more sleeps until my parents and my in-laws come, I can hardly sleep at night because I'm so excited. I'll post a picture of everyone when they get here.