Tugging in the stomach

Yeah so I hear that your emotions are in your stomach. You never really feel em that much in your heart. I think. I feel most of mine in the stomach. So with the emotions, I think that I'm ready to come home. I must that I think I'm kinda burnt out with the ministry stuff. I don't think that it's just ministry, but the way it is over here. I mean yeah it's different. I would def be. But it's kinda all based on this particular structure and we don't really like it. I feel as if I've learned alot and I'm ready to come home and see all my family and friends and live out what I've learned. I really wanna love people. Unconditional love. I think I've always said that I loved people unconditionally, but I was only lying to myself I think. I was really only wanting to hang out in my Christian bubble. I never wanted to get out. I'm kinda tired of living somethimes like a Pharisee and I just wanna be like Jesus. I wanna love Him and everybody else just becasue they are people. No ifs ands or buts. Buts. lol. Anyway. Yeah I dunna just venting a little bit. I'm ready to be home and love and live a life of love. Sweet stuff. Yeah so we go on our safari in a week. I'm excited about it. I hope we see a hippo. Oh yeah that would be great.....

Brawn is actually just like Ham.... for snadwhiches

So here I am again. Still living in Africa. And by the way we have this stuff called brawn. It's pretty7 much like baloney. I'm not the biggest fan. I must say thanks to everyone who has been praying for Brian and Freddy. I have a story to tell. Yesterday I was walking with Brian to the super market, and I had been praying for a few days that God would really open a door to talk with about Jesus bc I didn't want to force a convo. So we were walking and I had this peace about bringing it up. I asked him how long he had been a Christian and then i got to share my testimony and then asked him if he knew for sure he would go to heaven when he died. He said that he coulnd't be sure. He thought if you didn't confess a sin before you died a\you would go to hell. Well I shared with him the love of Jesus and that's a gift from God. I shared a few verses with Him and then ended with the question asking him if he knew now. He said he knmew.I asked if that helped any. He said it was like a ton off his chest was lifted. So I aked him again if he knew what would happen and he said he knew. I asked why he knew. You know what he told me? He told he knows because of Jesus Christ. So I gave him a fist pound. It was fantastic. So we may get to have a quiet time together next week if he feels like it. So thanks for you guys who have been praying for us and the peeps here. Yeah so awesome. Things are still rockin over here in Africa. I even started reading this novel by Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love. It's pretty cool. All of us, guys and girl and into the Francine Rivers novels. Weird I know. WEll a lil more fyi, I have really been drawn closer to God from being here. I have grown in my relatoinship with Him from being here. I';m kinda ready to go home and live out all this stuff i've taken in. It's diff here. I can't live it out like back at home in our culture. It's so diff here. But it's all gravy. Hope you guys and gals have a stupendous week.

I don't really like cabbage!

Yeah so one of the staples we eat is cabbage. I don't really like it. I mean I have a missionary stomach which means that I eat everything they serve, but if I can I try not to eat cabbage. The people are kinda skinny here. The food is better than America. America food tasts better but the food her is filling. You have no need to eat dessert becasue you are full of real food that is somewhat healthy. I have had some icecream from the supermarket. I was yummy. I liked it. I have not seen any hippoes yet. I sure hope we do on our safari. You can't come to Africa and not see a hippo. That would just be a nightmare. I don't know about you but I don't like nightmares. They are scarey andyou wake up frightened. You know they just aren't fun. I'm not sure why I went into details about nightmares. Any way. So yeah since we talked last things have been good. No more vomitting. But however, I have been in the tree pulling up on it again. I just can't stop. This past tuesday we had out weekly Bible study at Technical. It was good and then we got to play some basketball. Wednesday morning we had the chance to do a devotional at the children's home we went to a few weeks ago. Man it was a blast. I like those kids. I want one of em. I don't think I can have one, but you can always dream. So it's good to get comments from all you guys and gals. I do enjoy them so keep letting me you know that you are alive. I would comment on other people's but I have slow interent and just don't I may get around to it. I would like to see pictures of everyone and the things they are doing int he summer. I bet you would like to see pictures of me and Africa. I am going totry to put a few up in just a minute. Hey thanks for all the prayers and the financial support from everyone. I enjoy it here. I am going to try to have some good conversations about Jesus with Brad sometime really soon. I must say that I have learned some good stuff since I've been here. I feel like I have grown in my relatioship with God. I find that themore I learn the more hungry I am for the Lord. Hey that's a good thing. Jesus said blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righetousness. Cool stuff. Well I hope to get back on this thing soon, maybe Monday. Have a fantastic day and days to come.

Monkeys are Hairy!!!

Yep. Monkeys are hairy. Nope, I haven't really seen any monkeys, exept thi one time when in Nairobi we had to stop the car because there were like 6 baboons crossing the road. That doesn't happen every day. So hello there. Niaje. That means how are you? So I'm still in Africa. Hey Mom, Dad, aunt Sue, Leslie, Jess, Jess, and everybody else who has said hey. I do miss all of you. Yeah so last week I wasn't able to get on on thursday. we had a power black out. so we did come friday and we weren't able to load any pictures up. i hope to do so soon.

Since we last conversed. So the girl that was suppossed to come, Mandi, wasn't able to come at the same time as we were. Her passport didnt' come in intime. But guess what? It did come in and so did she. She got here last Wednesday. Since last week we have just been introducing her to Machakos. We have done sopme ministry though. We were able to go to the local university where we have a ministry and watch this big track meet thing. They were competing against each other. The winners would like join a team and then compete against other universities in kenya. So after being bored with that after 6 minutes we all played basketball for hours. it was great. We got to meet two guys who are good and they have joined our core group meetings that take place on sundays. that is a good thing. we are not sure if they are both CHristians. But we would really appreciate it if you could pray for them. Brian and Freddy are their names. We will continue hanging out with them and playing basketball. Yesterday we met for core group and then a Bible study at the high school. ANthony gave a talk about redefining success. We had two good studies yesterday.

So just about random life. We eat food here. Today for lunch we went to kenchic inn where they are kuku about chicken. kuku is the kenyan name for chicken. it was kinda american mixed with kenyan food. I had a half chicken and some fries then a big fruit salad. It was good. Stuf is kinda cheap here. We have shillings and the exchange rate is 65 to the dollar. We buy sodas for like 16 shillings. the internet i am using now is 1 shilling a minute. I usually spend what is equal to one dollar for one hour of internet. thats pretty good. we see cows and goats everywhere. we have running water. we dont have a stove. we have a gas burner that we cook everything on. we sleep under mosquito nets. they arent that bad though. its winter here. really it is. i vomited this morning. the past couple of times we have did pull ups on this tree and push ups and ran i have felt nausious. this morning i actually puked. kinda gross I know, but how many times do you actually get to vomit in Africa. When in Africa, as the saying goes. So we are still going our the safari to maisi mara. its the 8th wonder of the world. we are going july 2-4. exciting. so i am enjoying it here. let me know if you have any questions. next time i write I can answer them. Thanks for all the prayers and posts. Have a fantastic week!

This is my sad face

Hello again. So we were not able to load the pictures up on the internet. Sorry sorry. Hopefully we will be able to do so soon. Keep checking in. I will post again soon.

Just a few words...

Hello everyone. It's me again. Well it would only be me to put stuff on this page. So anyway. We got a few minutes to stop by the cyber so I wanted to post. This Thursday I will post some pictures of Africa on here. We had an interesting weekend. Oh, and aunt Sue, there is pizza in Nairobi. We had some when we first got here. It was perry perry and chicken and beef. Perry perry is like peppers and spice stuff. It was different but good. There is none in Machakos. Last Friday we went to a children's home to play the kids for the whole day. I'm not used to kids, so it was different. I enjoyed it alot. We all did. We spent most of our time with about 10 2year olds in a room. It was me and the two other guys with me. They were crazy. We had a blast. Saturday we spent some time in a small Bible study at a high school. They quoted scripture from memory and then we all got to share what God had been teaching us in our daily quiet times. It was good stuff. Sunday we went to church. I didn't like it that much. Too many announcements and s short sermon. LOL. I'm being serious. Like 30 minutes of announcements and 8 minutes about prayer. But afterwards we broke up into small groups and talked about prayer and stuff for an hour. I liked that. After that we went to a boys boarding school and got to pass out a Bible study for the students to do during the week and we talked for about an hour about unconditional love and dfellowship with unbelievers. It was really good. They answered their questions using the Word. crazy huh. It was quite different from students over in the states. They were rooted well in Christ. After we left there we went back home and met with students that are in a core group. We had some fellowship and teamwork games with them with some tea and snacks. These are people who have gradated high school and may be in college or are waiting to go. There were some older than I. We enjoyed it. I am still being challenged in many ways in my walk with the Lord. I like it. Not at the moments when I am struggling of course. The Lord wants His children to be mature and complete, not lacking anything(james 1:4). So I think I will be back on this thing again in a few days with maybe some pictures of Africa and the people here and my bald head. Thanks for all your prayers.