New Mason Crew

Well it has been some time since my last blog entry, not much new has happend really.
Been chilling here mostly.

I will tell you about service in the city. Its funny how things are just a little different, for example, when we work the territory we hardly ever knock on doors because every home has a gate guard. So the majority of the people we talk to are men at work. Unless its street work or market service. Usually all the calls have to be turned over to the brothers.

Also, when we write RV's usually we just put the st. and house # right??
Well..I was looking through my RV' book and its funny some of the things you write down to remember. One of my calls says " Mud House with the Tin door" also "House with 100 chickens for sale" and "House next to the Chicken place". Another "House in the middle of no where on the way to the zebras". Its very hard to find #'s for the homes sometimes :)

Anyways.. there is an on going reconstruction of the Langata Assembly hall. They have been working on it forever it seems. Last yr i got to help when they were painting it and now they are doing stone work.

Like i mentioned before, I was on the RBC back in TX and worked on Decking, Sheet-Rock and Dry wall, and had been doing that for a few years. However for some reason last year they put me on the Mason crew, and i was a lil sad at first because i really wanted to be on the roof or inside putting up sheet rock..You know, wearing a tool belt and using power tools!!! But of course I enjoyed working with the bro's and sisters on the Mason crew!!

Well..little did i know how much skill and perfection is involved. And boy am i glad i was paying attention to the instruction! Jah always does think ahead and see's the bigger picture that sometimes we dont see right away. I came all the way to Kenya and found out that i would be needing those very skills!! They are putting up stone around the entire assembly hall. And there are on average about 10 people working at a time.
Sandra (kp's mom) Is the only one who has all the tools for everything pretty much. So if she doesnt go usually no one shows up, its kinda sad.

She is a good worker and together we wk pretty fast. On friday we put stones up on a section of the wall by ourselves and the friends worked behind us grouting and cleanig the stone. I was very proud of the wk!!

I remeber back in 1999 learning how to do stone wk for the first time on the GP Kingdom Hall. I couldnt help but think of the friends who taught me, and how they are still doing the same wk for jah till this day. Those friendships and memories are very special to me!!

I will post some photos of the work we did. (notice them grouting with SPOONS!!)

Oh I forgot to mention, when I showed up to the assembly hall in the morning it had been my first time back in over a year, yet one of the brothers shouted "ANDREA, Is that you!!"
It was so nice to see him. Also the the A overseer's wife came up to me and said "We need SODA" i was like huh?? She said "Yes to celebrate your marriage and that you are back!". Thats their way of celebrating :) awe

Yes it was great to be back. Everyone remembered me and I couldnt help but to feel loved :) For lunch we didnt have the huge trailer of cook's lined up to serve us, rather all 10 of us sat in a circle around a small table outside, behind the Overseers house and had tea, bread and some salad that Sandra made. Oh yes and cake too :)
They have a blackberry tree so i was picking those and eating them,YUUMM

Alrighty folks thats it for now,, Till later

Kwaheri!!

Love drea

P.S.
When doing stone wk, some of the stones were too big, and we dont have the proper tools to cut them, so we had to chisel some of them the old fashioned way! I kept telling myself, "if the Isrealites did it, so can I!!" :)

written by  africandre on January 24, 2010 from Nairobi West, Kenya
from the travel blog: Eldoret kenya
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