The Lord is Good!

Hi Everyone! It has been so long since I have been on myspace. I feel like a stranger. Things have been busy here in Kenya. After language school finished I started preparing for my parents first visit to Kenya. In the process of getting the guest room ready I fell through some boards and broke my foot. Leave it to me to be the first one in my family of nine to break a bone. =) Needless to say seven and a half weeks later the cast is still on and I am getting tired of hopping around. Lord willing I only have two more weeks!!!!

I guess I better go back and fill in what all has taken place during the last seven and a half weeks. My parents came for their visit and we had a wonderful time. Dad got his international drivers license and got to experience driving in another country where everything is backwards from America. I had a wonderful time introducing them to some of the churches I will be working with. We did a lot of visiting, sharing of memories, and we did get to do some sightseeing and shopping. Mom and I enjoyed shopping at the Maasai market and we all enjoyed going to the Giraffe Manor, a place where you can feed giraffe out of your hands. I have been there many times with different people, but this was the first time I have ever seen someone get bit by a giraffe. That someone was my mother! Thankfully it did not break the skin and it only swelled.

The two days after they left were some of the most difficult days of my life. I cried my heart out and did a lot of talking to the Lord. Folks, missionaries do get lonely and they do miss their families.

Because I broke my foot I can’t drive or get out of the house on my own. It has been a great time for me to get organized and translate my teacher training notes into Swahili. That has been quite a challenge, but I am having a lot of fun translating. It has also been good for the continuing of my study of the Swahili language.

Never stop praying for your missionaries. Within the last week the Lord has been working on my trust factor. It is one thing to say with your mouth you trust God, but the real test comes when bad things happen. It seems to me that I am getting my fair share during this time of my life. It started with last Sunday when I called my family only to find out that my 14 year old sister was in a bad bicycle accident which involved her flying over her handlebars and hitting her face on a rock. Her beautiful face is now covered with stitches as well as the inside of her mouth along with a gouge in the forehead and the bone under her right eye being broken. We only found out a couple of days ago that she can still see out of that eye. The doctor has told us that just maybe she will be able to smile again. I thank the Lord that my little sister is still alive.

I just found out today that my soon to be 5 year old niece is in the hospital with a large fast growing lump by her pelvic bone. She was taken in today for a biopsy and I still have not heard what the report is. I don’t think I have ever felt so helpless, but I am not hopeless. God is still God and all I can and will do is trust my family in His care. He is an Almighty God who created us and He is the Great Physician! Everyday each one of us faces different things in our lives. We need to remember who God is and never forget it.

I trust you all are doing okay. There are some great things coming up here in Kenya, an all night Youth Fellowship at my house and three weeks of camp during November and December. There is nothing like having youth camp in December! I am praying for all of you! I will try to get some pics from my parents visit downloaded. Have a wonderful day!