

Then we were asked to introduce ourselves (the team), Pastor Eric then asked all visitors to introduce themselves, and then finally the members.
After this, some of us took the children over to a Mango tree to have children's church, while the rest of us stayed to listen to the Pastor's message. He spoke in Swahili so I couldn't understand, but he spoke with such passion that I knew the people there were going to be changed. I found out later that he spoke about taking off the old and putting on the new.
Once church was over we moved onto the "Hand to mouth" ministry! This was one of 3 jokes total we heard by the Kenyan people! Pastor Eric made it up, it of course means lunch! The lunch consisted of your choice of Rice, Yugali (spl?), or Chipati (spl?), beans, and tomato and onion salad, greens (like turnip greens, so good!), and a little lime, oh and there was a.. potato soup, but not like what you would think but sooooo good! And a little meat, but the meat is very tough there so I couldn't chew it. But I mixed the rice, beans, tomato mixture, greens and a little lime on top, i ate 3 servings!! it was sooooo good!!!

Cayla helped get people organized and helped with wound care. Then we started seeing people. It was slow start because a lot of these medicines I had never used before and had to figure out what each one was etc. Once we saw the first 10 people Jaylyn and I got the hang of it and it went much faster. We saw around 200 people! We treated anything from ring worm, to malaria.


Then others passed out pillow case dresses made by Kaylene and her church, they were adorable and the people went crazy over them!
Once we were done seeing the last person, we put everything away, loaded up and headed back to Chris and Lisa's and the Windell's for game night and pizza!!
Pizza in Kenya is much different than pizza in America. First, they don't have pepperoni, so they use salami! Even though it wasn't real pepperoni, it was so good! I ate 3 pieces! Then we all sat in a circle at the Windell's and played catch phrase. It was a great time of fellowship and winding down. We had our glass bottle cokes and orange fanta's (really popular there), and lots of laughs! Although I was so exhausted I had a hard time hearing people when they called out answers, I just heard jumbled words!! Lol! The Windell's and the Moore's played with us too, so good times were had by all!
Finally, we were all to tired to go on, and half of the team got back on the bus and rode over to Chris and Lisa's house for bed.

It was a wonderful exhaustion, I would do it again in a
heartbeat!
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