Sunday in Litein

This Sunday was very relaxing. We start the day by going to church. Gloria helps lead the children's ministry so she leaves me to enjoy the (English) service while she heads off to Sunday school. There are lots and lots of kids that trail up to the front for prayer before heading off to their classes. They are very cute.

After the service she meets with the young adults who are the Sunday school teachers. It is nice to see a group of young adults taking on such a big role in the church.

 After church we have a movie marathon on the couch. We watch three movies in a row. There is nothing like a little down time after so many busy days spent travelling. For dinner she shows me how to make Chapati which is a Kenyan flat bread. Of course it is quite a bit of work which gives me an appreciation for the Chapati we have been eating at the hospital cafeteria. In the house we have a single gas burner so it is quite time consuming to make a meal. It takes us over two hours to prep our meal tonight. We have an awesome lentil dish, a broccoli dish and our chapati. Luckily we have left overs so we will not have to cook tomorrow. Cooking on the single burner can take time but it is still easy to do. I can only imagine how much more difficult it would be to gather fire wood to cook on.

There has been no running water in the house for a couple days and our water buckets in the house have become empty. I head out to the rain tank to fill some up and sadly the tank is empty. AND this is the wet season!! Hours later God provides what we need. A huge rain storm rolls in and fills up our rain barrel half way. I go outside during the storm to put all out our buckets so we won't have to tap into our freshly restored water tank. Once again there is water in the house. I am able to take a luxurious bucket bath and wash my hair!! Life is good.