today is friday. i'm at java junction. it's kind of cold this morning which is odd because it's been really hot. i've been in kenya a whole week now. things have calmed down a bit since my first few days. seriously, i barely slept or rested at all until wednesday. i arrived on thursday night, had a full day of seeing old friends on friday, a ballet friday night (i'm so sorry Belarussian ballet, but you put me to sleep a little. it was warm and dark and there was nice music and i had jet-lag), Rosslyn spring fling on saturday and a party saturday night, church and two youth groups on sunday, a scouting trip on monday, and checking out lukenya getaway on tuesday. so wednesday i slept in a little bit before all day meetings about camp. yesterday was a little more chill and here i am today, just made a camp announcement at an elementary school chapel and am having coffee at java house.
i'm fighting feeling overwhelmed because i know there is much to do before camp happens. and that it about one month. all of us are working on the various camp projects so i know it will all get done and camp will be great. please pray that everything will come together and that i and our team will trust the Lord with all of it. pray that children will sign up for camp and that we'll get all the counselors we need. we still need guys. i feel like needing guys is the story of my life lately. for camp staff, not personally. :)
so on monday i went with clayton and eric to mt satima in the aberdare national park. it was beautiful! and quite an adventure. we wanted to check it out to know whether we could take our high school adventure program there during camp. that is yet to be known because after driving for 5 hours and paying too much to get into the park, we got stuck in a ditch and didn't have time to make it to the mountain. this was nice welcome back to africa. i got to lay on my belly and dig dirt out from under the van, stack big rocks in the ditch and under the tires, hang off the side of the van while rocking it and weighing that side down, and then changed the tire. this is all to save us from going to the ranger station on foot past the buffalo and elephants. i was scared. i'm not gonna lie. but God is faithful even when it's hard to trust him. it took us a few hours to get out of the ditch. we didn't talk much during those few hours. we were all thinking about the lack of cell service, the buffaloes, and the impossible car situation we were facing. i was so happy to return to nairobi monday night and eat lasagna at lauren and stu's house.
well, i'm in kenya, i'm safe, and i'm getting ready for camp. thank you all so much for praying.
Mt. Kenya is in the background, but the clouds were covering her. Clay is scouting a good spot for our kids.
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