Mombassa

So from Kakamega, with both teams together now, we drove to Mombassa. Which if you look on a map, are on opposite sides of Kenya! It should be about 18hrs worth of travel, but took us 30!!! Our bus broke down around 11pm on sunday, and we didn't get it working til 5am monday. So we slept in the bus, like charter-style bus, overnight on the side of some sketchy road, no idea where we were. When it got running, we took off again. It was such a bumpy uncomfortable ride. And every hour it just got hotter and hotter. Late that night, around 9pm, we got to a very nice house in the town of Watamu, where a muslim family had agreed to let us, christians, use their home! That in itself was a miracle. The rest of the week there, I spent mostly at the house. I was still very sick, and trying to recover, but in 90 degrees and 90% humidity, that's hard. A few more of our team members got sick, but many kept on with ministry. This are was tricky, because it is dominated by Muslims. So we had to be very careful what we did, how we carried ourselves through town and stuff. I did participate in a revival meeting or two, and preached at church on sunday. The week went very fast. We spent several days on the beach. I got so sunburnt! But it was lovely. Being sick....was not. It was very hard for me, having paid to come and do ministry, and then to be incapacitated. It was a learning experience. The past three weeks especially, God taught me that I have to wait on him and his timing, not mine. And that I can't change people, I can only follow what he has for me and share his love. Sunday evening we piled into matatus and drove to the bus station in Mombassa town. From there, we tried to leave, but it was Mohammed's birthday! So the streets were packed with people and floats and music. It was cool to see, but hard at the same time. it was a huge group of people, so close yet so far away. god was speaking to my heart, saying, I died for them too, and I LOVE them. I love them.... We finally got out of town, after leaving Kevin behind, one of our team. He caught up though. I had to pee so bad at one point, I went behind some houses on the side of the road during a gas fill up stop. When in Kenya....