Spent the entire day on the sand. We walked up and down picking shells. I found a beautiful piece of white coral that I will put up in the restroom as a decoration. Sandra has made mirrors with sea shells and drift wood and I want to make one too. So now I have everything I need.

Today we went to the city of Malindi, that's about 45 min from Kilifi. We met up with some of Sandra's friends. They use to be missionaries and now serve as special pioneers. We had some lunch at this Italian place and had such a good time with them even though it was only for an hour or so. They love to talk and tell stories and it was nice hearing their stories of Kyran and his brothers when they we're young.

Talking to the Brother was refreshing. It was like talking to brother E. Raymond! Lol well that's who he reminded me of :)

He said it was hard to imagine the boys married because he remembers them during their teens! Hmmm...... ;)

After we left them we went shopping. Malindi has lot unique crafts mens. So there is stuff here that you can't really find anywhere else.

There are many Italians in this city and so it has lots of flavor.
Oh, and I even found my favorite cheap Italian red wine! :) haven't been able to find it in Nairobi!

Time was running out and so we had to leave. We are going back on Tue.

Back at grandmas, me and Sandra prepared lunch for tomorrow. We are going to Tsavo national park.

On a different note Grandmas brother who lives in South Africa came today!!

Everyone says he looks like Kyran, but he is in his 70s so I can't really tell. He does have colored eyes just like KY KY. He is such a nice fellow very down to earth and likes to tell stories, sounds like Kyran :)

Speaking of stories BBC did a documentary on his past work. He used to wk for the government before Kenya got its freedom. Ever heard of the Mau Mau? Look it up :) interesting and sad story.

Anyway since it was a special occasion we had crab and lobster. Fresh from the sea I might add!

Later on we left brother and sister to catch up one the 'good ol' days'.

That was today! I'm exhausted.

Night yal!

Love drea.

written by  africandre on July 31, 2010 from Mombasa, Kenya
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I'm really enjoying work. Get to meet lots of interesting people. I met a local singer named Jua Cali. He was interviewed on the show. Also a few others but I have forgotten their names.

Oh it was funny because they interviewed a country singer from Nashville named BigKen? Yeah ??

But it was a big deal to have a cowboy here in kenya! Lol also it was nice to hear the country accents and hearing them say "yal"

So today I was in service with a sis and we had such a nice time, I forgot to pack a lunch so by 2pm I was starving!we stopped at a place where they make sandwhiches so we ate there and I wanted to save the rest for later.

So as we are walking a young kid comes up to me and asked me for money. I told him I didn't have any and sorry. Then he asked for my sandwhich!! I said " you know where I come from it's very rude to ask someone to eat their food for them".

Not a min later another kid stops me and asked for money and I told him " if I give you this what am I going to eat?" then he asked for Money and I told him the same as the other kid that Its very rude to ask.

30 seconds later a MAN signals with his hands to his mouth that he wants my food! Ok keep in mind these are not people begging on the side of the road these are people walking around like us!
I said to him " come here, what is your name? So and so , how can you ask me for food when you see that it's mine?" then he mumbles that it's better to ask than to steal " I was like yes that's true but where I come from it's very very rude and disrespectful to ask someone to give them food . You think because Im a mzungu ( White person) that I am rich and have money to give away! What will I eat? You give me money and I will give you this sandwhich!!!"

I was so mad by then, I told that sister " someone else just please ask me again and il stick my hand out to them and say ' Miamoja na kumi'" that means : "100.10 shillings " ($1.50) that's how much it cost and wud show my recipt!! Lol aye yay ay!!! That sister was mad too

I must say, I'm having an adventure here. Its nice especially since I get bored fast and like keeping active!

Swahilli class is going well. Who would have thought that I could EVER read this :

'Wadudu wakali Hawa wanatafuta wanyama Wale.'

That means "these fierce bugs are looking for those animals" (as in to eat)

Or how about : Watoto wadogo wazuri wachache Hawa.

Which means "these few small children"

Yes! It is amazing. We are learning proper Kiswahilli

Kp is excited because he is going to London in 2weeks for his training! We have some friends there that will show him around and get in touch with bethel to help him locate the nearest kingdom hall.

Well that is it for now. Had a long day in service and need to rest up a bit!

Till next time! GO Spain!!!!!

Love drea

written by  africandre on July 10, 2010 from Nairobi Hill, Kenya
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A sister in one of the congregations is a journalists for a news paper. She does the home decor section and I had told her about sandras house. Its decorated seashore beach theme.

So she loved it! And she did a great job in her story. :) it even mentioned that her son (kyran) made the living room table :)

Moving along... Last weekend I went to Eldoret to visit my friend. Eldoret is north of the equator near the rift vally. Its a really beautiful town.

I went with some sisters in my hall who are also good friends of hers. The drive took5 hours but of course when you are in good company time flies.

It started raining once we passed Nakuru so their wasn't much to see. But it was kinda cool driving in the clouds up the mountains! I don't know how high we were but the equator is 9100feet so we were 2 hours higher :)

We reached Eldoret and parked the car at a shop. Soon as the sister turned off the car this man opens her door! He was a mentally challenging person begging for money. So we Locked the doors right away!

Later on we had good fun at the sisters house. For me it was a different experience than what I'm used to but a nice one.

I helped cook dinner but she had no stove or microwave. I had to use a tiny gas cooker. It takes longer to make dinner that way. But no complaints!

The next day we went to the view point by the rift valley. it was sooooo breath taking. You could see mountains in the distance for miles and miles! You know a camera never does it justice, especially mine! We spent a few hours there and took lots of photos. We even got to witness and share a scripture with some people on the mountain.

Later on we went to a coffee house to eat and watch the futbol game. It was Japan and new Zealand I think.

By the time we finished eating it was too late to go see the waterfalls!!!! I was soo sad! Thats all I wanted to see! And my friend of course :)

So we went home grabbed our watchtowers and went to a park and studied together.

Next day we went to the meeting and that was nice. The sign language group meets at their hall and the sister we visited is in that group. So we got to meet with them.

When it was time for watchtower the microphones we're not working so we had to make do.

As it is everywhere in the world, the friends were so sweet. I met one Bro and as soon as I saw him I was like "I know you!" turns out we know his brother who lives in bethel and just happened to be in Nyeri with us last weekend. Small world huh!

They wanted to take us out to eat but time was running out and we had to head home before dark.

The drive on the way back was soooo beautiful! We drove back a different way. Through Nivasha, if you look up" Hells Gate" you can see pictures. Mt Longonot is part of the scenery too! I had climbed that mountain or extinct volcano last time I was in kenya :) ah! It was so nice!

We had stopped in Nivasha and met my friends cousin. We had some dinner. That was good kwa sababu (because) we were starving! You know how it is when you travel you don't eat good. So that was a good, we needed it.

We were driving and reached 40 miles outside of Nairobi and the Sis who was driving said "the car isn't accelerating" so I told her to pull over right away! We ran out of gas!

The Gage was reading half full so we didn't bother. We even said earlier that we were surprised how good the car runs on fuel!

Anyways, it was getting dark so one of the girls made a quick decision to walk to the nearest gas station. Keep in mind that we are on a highway!

So we waited for her in the car, and said a prayer and soon as we finished the police arrived and set up their station about a hundred yards in front of us! They usually do that and pull over random cars. So it was definitely a blessing!

Kenya can be very dangerous at night!!!!!

Anyway the Sis came back and we didn't have a funnel so we used a note, money bill, to pour in the gas. I had a good flash light and that really came in handy but i didn't carry a knife, which we needed to cut a bottle.

Anyway it all wked out well!
I guess as many of you have read before, nothing ever goes perfect but its always an adventure and good for a story :) will send pictures soon! ;)
We calculated that we would have made it back to Nairobi had we not went to the view point in Eldoret. Which means, it only cost us 40bucks to fill the car about 35 liters! That's a 10hour drive to and from on one tank!

So we eventually made it home!

And that was that! Good fun!

Still doing swahill classes. its going good!

I been experimenting with chocolate, iv made chocolate covered peanuts, almonds and espresso beans! They taste just like the ones you get @ Starbucks! I even made chocolate coverd Fruit! I might start making them and selling them :)

Next story will be about our trip to Mombasa !

Till then, kwaherini!

Love, drea and ky ky

GO USA!!!! ...Mexico Argentina& Brazil!!!

written by  africandre on June 25, 2010 from Eldoret, Kenya
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There is a new bethel extention in the city of Nyeri. That's about 3 hours from here and 1 hour from "My shags" as they say, Nanyuki :)

Its a pretty large house that they are remodeling to use as a translation office. We were givin permission to go help this weekend. Me and Kyran went with a couple of friends. And some of our friends from nanyuki showed up to meet us there! That was a nice surprise.

I told some of you that it has been my dream to become an International servant, so to be able to help with this construction is like a dream come true! Now I need to set new goals :)

When we arrived they put me and another sister in charge of the painting. Then not too long after we were done, the brother kindly asked if we could help with lunch. I didn't mind but I thought it was funny because I always considered that to be ' a sisters job' :) but its all for jah so its ok!

After lunch I went outside and saw some sisters plowing the yard. Man! That is tough physical work! These mamas have some serious strength. They asked me and kp to try it and not too long after that we couldn't do it anymore. The older sisters showed us up big time!

After that intense labor, the brother asked if I wouldn't mind cooking dinner! That took forever! There was about 17 people to feed which isn't bad, but they were having problems with the electricity.

I ended up making the chicken which was a hit! Everyone loved it! And another sister made chips, (fries).

There was a few visitors from the Nairobi bethel along with their friends, so they helped too.

People here love dairy. They eat it and drink it. Even fermented milk and yogurt mixed with sugar! Gross! I can't do it but to everyone else its a delicacy.

Later on in the evening after dinner, the friends said they wanted to take us to this small joint. So I was imagining something small and ragged. But it was nice! They took us to this local hotel. And they had a huge screen outside showing the futbol game on the lawn and every table had its own pot of fire to keep them warm.

Its was really nice. Unlike the states we don't have sports bars to go to if we wanna watch a game. So the bros really really liked it! Matter of fact we are planning another small trip there in July, and we will bring more friends from my congo and have a bbq.

Well back at the home, me and kp had our own room away from the house. It was cute. Only thing I had to deal with was that there was no shower head, just a bath tub. Also there was only a little bit of hot water so we had to shower using a basin! Lol

I had never done that before, it was so funny. KY had to pour water on me, I told him ' it feels like I'm in a consentration camp.' I know, it sounds bad and probably isn't even like that, but it just was such a wired feeling. Always a 1st for everything !

They kept telling me that IM so american! That's they way the majority of kenya bathes!

Ahh, good times.

So, the plan for Sunday was to drive back to Nairobi for the late meeting. Well when we woke up no one was home! Only our car group was there. Everyone had went to their meetings. But they were so nice and had breakfast prepared for us sitting on the table! Pancakes !

We didn't want to leave while they were gone, so we decided to have our own meeting after breakfast. And atleast we did, because they don't have English meetings in Nyeri.

Then to say thank you, me and Sylvia made a cake! It turned out great except that we put the icing on too soon. I'll send the photos on snapfish, you will notice it all melted away!

But when everyone got back to the house they loved the cake! Kenyans don't bake lots of cake so its always a treat.

So later on we had to say our goodbyes, took lots of pictures of course. The city is so pretty ! Did I mention that already?

We drove on the bumpy roads all the way home. I miss paved roads that's all I gotta say.

When your driving you see quite a lot of interesting things. Like men trying to sell fish, huge fish on the side of the road. With no ice, lake or river within 100miles in sight! Lol!

The only picture I managed to get was of a donkey. We took a pic of it!

Anyways, that's the story for now!

I'll have more news next week, I'm going to eldoret on friday:)

Ok take care!

Mwa! Love yal!

Kwaheri , Drea

written by  africandre on June 22, 2010 from Nairobi, Kenya
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It looks pretty sweet. Its 50 centimeters X60. I will take a photo of it when it is finished!

On sunday we had a good time after the meeting. A sister from our hall invited a bunch from the hall to her house. She hosted the C/O and she just happens to be a cater, so, the food was good!

Some other missionaries were there too which was nice because they will be heading to their new assignment next week. Sudan! I'll miss them. I met them last year when I came an we have kept in touch since then.

On sunday kyrans bible study came to the meeting for the 1st time! I was so happy! I had actually met him a long time ago, he is a barber so it was easy to witness to him. Kyran took over the study and now he is progressing so well!

Another study came too. Sandras bible study, she is one of those who all the friends know and have met before. So we were all so happy! She even brought 2 friends with her.

Well Thursday was my first day of work. :) its for a talk show.

Its fun I get to sit in the dressing room all day for 2 days a week. Waiting back stage and checking if I need to make touch ups on her hair while on the set.

I took the Boda Boda home! That's a motor bike :) I usually take a matatu, small 14 seater bus. But there is a long stretch from the building to the main road were there are no matatus and its not safe to walk.

Anyway I asked him to take me to the main road then I was like well why not to the bus stop, then I was like what the hec why not home we are almost there! So it was a 1st time for me. Least I can say I tried it!

This past week we have had the visit of our circuit overseer. I worked with his wife yesterday. The pioneer meeting went great!

As usual, he brought out something deep from the bible. The part we coverd was John chapter4. And it was neat how he had it read. He asked a brother to play the part of Jesus and a sister to read the part of the Smaratian woman.
So the narrative part was cut out.

So that was a good meeting needless to say.

Kyran has been enjoying his training! He is going to London next month for a simulator course. We have a couple of friends who live there so he will get in touch with them!

Since I can't go with him, I'll go to the coast in mombasa.

Oh, so remember I told ya that the district overseers wife is giving me swahilli lessons? Its funny because she is Canadian and there are4 of us she is teaching, one is from Ethiopia, Argentina and 2 Mexicans from America taking swahill lessons from a Canadian who lives in kenya!
Only jehovahs people ay!

We went over grammer and its been helpful already. Iv been able to pick up on what people are saying. Even today while we were in service i learned so much!

Oh so i almost forgot. I was in service and I noticed that there were alot of cops and security gaurds. Turns out that the vice president of US was in that car we just walked past! Ha! I wish i had my camera with me at that moment.

Thats all for now. take care!

Ok, nakwenda sasa!

Love drea

written by  africandre on June 8, 2010 from Nairobi West, Kenya
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5months without a job seems like a long time, but we have kept so busy in the ministry that time has passed by sooo fast! Not everyone has a 5 month long honeymoon together without having to work!!! So we enjoyed it while it lasted
We had our 2 day assembly this past weekend. As I wrote to some of you already it was AMAZING!

The program was really nice. It was my first actual assembly here. It was also nice to see the work we had done on the building during construction. They have a new project coming up in june. They will be putting up new toilets in the womans section.
Have i mentioned to you before that when they first installed the restrooms that some people would steal the seat covers?!!!!!!!!! THATS SOOO GROSS!! They dont comprehend germs and bacteria they cant see!

Anyways, So i have been busy doing hair. I have met a lady who is a makeup artist here in kenya. She is considered one of the best. She has a great resume and she has created her own makeup brand that will be launched in Aug. She has been really kind and referred me to her clients. She does all the mag covers and makeup for those in the beauty section for various african mag’s. So she has already booked me in to help her do some shoots in june! Im so excited. She said she will probably train me to do makeup which im super happy to learn!

I will keep you posted on how that goes 

Speaking of learning, the district overseers wife has arranged and volunteered to give an informal class of kswahilli.We start next week. Im already learning so much on my own and im so eager to learn more!!!

Im trying to keep myself busy in as many spiritual activities as i possibly can. Helps fill in time and keep me focused..

Oh im obviously horrible in remembering what i wrote in the past and to lazy to go back and re read my last blogs  but what i have been doing on some of my free time is going in to the market of Toy, and since i know so many people there now, i have been able to wheel and deal!! For example, i took 3 blouses and tried to trade for different ones. It worked!! Thus far i have traded about 20 tops 5 skirts 2 dresses 2 pairs of shoes and 3pairs of earrings!! LOL

I can actually go in there with no cash and come with new things  its pretty fun. Some sisters ask me to go with them now since i seem to know the place better than them! LOL thats crazy, iv only been here since January! Whats even more interesting is that the vendors trust me so much that if i dont have money at that moment i can take the stuff anyways because they know i will come back to pay or trade!!

Good times good times

So yeah, i sent yal some pictures of when we went bowling last week. That was fun getting together with the friends. We are having a small get together over the weekend at this park i have never been to. Should be fun. Im enjoying spending time with the friends eve more now that Kyran is busy working.

Kp says hiiiii! He is busy studying for his ATPL (airline transport pilot licence) mean time going through training at wk. Busy man!

I often have to remind myself of how easy i have it not having to wk full time any more!!
Well i have a couple of small trips coming up soon. Kyran will have to go to the UK to do a couple weeks of training. I cant go with him  so im going with sandra and a couple from bethel to Mombasa, the coast off the indian ocean. Im also going to visit my friend in Eldoret. Look it up on the map and thats where im going

Nweza kukuonyesha andiko?? Thats means: “can i show you a scripture”
LOL i say that, take them to a text and thats as far as i am in my presentation!! I still need my partner to explain the text! Haha...baby steps

Thats all i got 4 ya folks!! Big Hugs and kisses!!
Love Drea

written by  africandre on May 20, 2010 from Nairobi, Kenya
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A sister in our hall works for a clothing store called Kaché by Angie.

And they were going to have a fashion show held at the house of the Spanish ambassador. So the sister managed to get us some tickets.

I wasn t sure what to expect really but I was definitely curious to find out! It was obviously going to be a formal event but wasn t sure how formal, I mean it is Africa after all :) I told kyran I was going to either be way over dressed or blend in ok :)

It was fun dressing up for the first time in 5months! Lol. I did my hair and Lilys too. We were saying how sad it was that this was a Big event we were looking forward too :)

But actually it turned out to be very nice. As you saw in the pictures we had a good time. We arrived and parked on the lawn which was huge! When we entered the house we were greeted with a red rose and a hand bag with a few things in it.

We walked straight into the back yard and there was lights and tents and people. We were escorted to a covered patio where they served drinks and a few snacks.

Then the show started, it didn t rain during the catwalk thank goodness. And it went by pretty fast. I told the sister I am totally signing up to model next show if they let me! Lol why not aye??!

That was pretty much it, they played Spanish music in the back round which was nice to hear for a change!

After that the group of us went out to eat. We were all dressed up so formal n fancy with our smart looking hubbys!

On Saturday me and kp just chilled, a couple stopped by to say hello. Peter came back from his training in south Africa and we caught up with him.

Oh and I m back into the drawing mode! I decided to start making a collection for our home. I hardly have any of my art work for myself since I always give them away or sell them. I am drawing the picture in the bible teach book of the angel guarding daniel. I ll be done with it tomorrow ! Then off to my next project :)

That s pretty  much it, yesterday the Pots got together to play a game of monopoly, I hadn t played it in years! I tell ya, its a game that emotions are involved. You get excited frustrated mad and competitive. I was very surprised that I actually won! Yay! But we played again today and me n kp were the last left in the game, he won :( oh well

That s all I got 4ya! Life here in the mother land is quite chilled.

Till next time! Love you all!

Drea

written by  africandre on April 26, 2010 from Nairobi West, Kenya
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I'm not pregnant!! Lol but I do have my cravings! There are a few places here to get fast food but the variety is limited and in no way close to good as I'm use to :)

Speaking of fast food iv been having this desire to make a homemade pizza from scratch. I got all the ingredients I need. I was going to make it the other day but after a long day traveling to the ends of the earth in service I was too tired.

What was funny is that the couple I mentioned before that was having a bunch of us over for dinner made pizza for us! I even got to make one at her house. So that desire has been satisfied. Now I want to make a cheese stuffed crust this week. Yum!

Well service keeps getting Better and better. I love certain parts of the territory especially. I mentioned I went to the ends of the earth, that just happened to be close by. I went with a Sis on some calls. We took a few small buses to get there walked and walked for miles it seems in the mud and got rained on a bit. We climbed up and down a small slipery hill. As always its worth it. We stayed 2hours and waited about 30min after for the rain to stop. I'm having to get use to this mud!

I wish I had taken my camera. The view was nice. There were fields of veggies in the distance.

The sis who took me felt bad for having me go through all of that. Then i started telling her about ALL the crazy situations iv been in. Car breaking down, losing keys n the mountain @ midnight, being stranded with Kyran and Marcus with no place to sleep, getting stuck in the game park, on the mountain, the fire at 3am so on and so on.. She said she felt 100% better, this was nothing!!!!!!

Yesterday we worked a small part of kibera. That's the biggest slum in kenya by the way. Of course I never take my camera in there. That's another place I would take some of you just so you can say that you went into the deepest of kenya.
We found interest in there. 2 people said that they would like their own bible study.

We saw some kids that were standing on the shoulders of the the other and we were wondering what they we're doing. On the houses there are these tiny tiny air holes or squares. And in them are birds nests. So that's what they were looking for, taking the birds and the nests! I don't think they were gonna eat them, but I told them that now they have to find food for them. Poor birds. I took a couple of pix with my camera phone. I'll see if I can put them on the comp.

After service we went home to do some letter writing. Kyran was so sweet! He made tea and 2 pans of brownies for everyone and just waited on us replenishing the tea and water so we wouldn't have to disturb our service :)

Today some friends came by for some tea and cake. Man iv never had so much sweets in one weekend! A Sis is here visiting her fam from UK. She was supposed to leave friday but is delayed because of the ash in the air coming from the volcano in Iceland. Crazy stuff huh?

Anyways that was my weekend:)

So what do I say in service now? No invitations to hand out for the special talk. Its always sad when a campaign ends. :(

Well congrats to my Bro in law Jeremy ! Its Almost graduation day in may! ;)

Take care yal!

Hasta la next time!! Kwaheri ;D

written by  africandre on April 18, 2010 from Nairobi West, Kenya
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Ah anyways, this weekend was nice. A Sis in our hall got married yesterday. It was our 1st wedding to attend as a married couple. It was nice sitting in the audience together! The brother gave an excellent talk. I got to do the updo for one of my friends who was in the wedding :) yay 1st wedding updo here!

It was at the hall and pretty much done in the same manner as in the states. Except for that a lot of the friends got on stage as they were exchanging rings just to take a picture, that was rude, but no one seemed to mind ?? Oh well :)

The reception was in a big hall. Usually african receptions are done outside so for them it was really nice!

Our table was really fun. It was the newly wed table. There was no assigned seating but it happened that all 8 of us were the newly weds in our hall :) the oldest couple had been marred a year And the youngest was Marcus and Lily 6 weeks. So we had a good time just talking about everything. We all could relate to eachother :) one of the. Couples invite all for dinner on friday so it will be fun to hang out again :)

Well as for the reception things are done a bit different than what I'm use to. For example there is a reception and and evening party. @the reception you have the dinner speech a tiny!!! Tiny bite of cake if any and that's about it. The brother says a prayer and then people can make their way home.

It isn't untill the evening party where your told at the reception if your invited to That they have the 1st dance and music. Its held later in the night and there is where the party begins.

So I thought that was different. I would think it would be nice for everyone to dance but its just not the way its done here.

However it was cool in the beginning, as everyone waited for the bride n groom to come to the reception we had already started eating. And when they arrived we heard these african noises coming from outside. It was the family of the couple. They all parade inside together dancing with the couple walking on front. They were singing songs and dancing.

Later on one of the family members got up and sang a song in the native language. Then all the family from both sides started singing and dancing. It was a farewell song. Then we told the friends at our table that this is exactly what they show on tv to us in the states. And this is why we think that all Africans sing and dance around a fire! Lol it was a real African wedding.

So we only got to dance one song. They invited all the sisters to get up and dance. That was fun.

We didn't stay for the evening party because we were tired and had meeting for next day.

Old and married now huh? :)

Well that was my weekend,one of my friends was in town for the wedding so we spent time with some friends today and learned how to make custard!

KY says hi to you all! And hope your all doin good!

His mom told me that when he was 2 he couldn't pronounce his name so he use to call himself Kynanin! So now I call him Kynanin!!!! :)

That all for now guys! Take care

Love drea

written by  africandre on April 12, 2010 from Nairobi West, Kenya
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Una Furahia Kingereza au Swahilli??

"Do you prefer English or swahilli?" that's a phrase IM using quite often in service. We had such a good time passing out the memorial invites. :) our Congo took advantage of letter writing. As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, we always talk to the guard. This time jah really blessed our efforts. A few people actually let us in to wk door to door ;)and those who wouldn't let us in agreed to hand out letters to the tenants if we left them with the envelopes!! A couple of times we got kicked out.

We had 150 at the memorial. We expected more but because it rained I think it prevented alot from coming. Most folks here really can't drive in rain!!

We arrived at the facility where it was held and there was no electricity so it was completely dark !!! Brothers scrambled to get the generator working. They managed to get a light on so that the brother giving the talk could see ;) so we all sat in the dark, it was an interesting experiance!! I managed to get in 2 pix of me n kyran so il post them on snapfish soon ;)

Last weekend there was a wedding shower for a sister in our hall. I didn't get to stay long because we had made plans with a family in our hall that same evening. But the shower turned out nice, I got to be in charge of games even though I wasn't there :)

The family took all the Pot's out bowling ;) I was surprised that the ally was nice, it reminded me of main event! After a game they invited us to dinner at this really good Indian restaurant. Ky had told me that you know it's good Indian if you smell like it after.. Let's just say it was good lol!! Gross I know
The family had said they took us out to welcome us girls in to the new congregation. So sweet!!!!

Other than that all else is good. Sorry been slacking on keeping up with this blog!!

My beautiful friends in Nanyuki still call often just to say they love n miss us! IM really missing my old hood!!! ;) I hope we can visit them soon.

Kyran and I are enjoying this month of April, because he starts working in may and I know he will be busy!!So just enjoying it while we can.

Ok I have another small story but i will put it in the next blog post so this won't be too long to read;)

We miss jelly ana jerry n amie!!! And all you friends!!!

Love Drea

written by  africandre on April 5, 2010 from Nairobi West, Kenya
from the travel blog: Nairobi
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