Nyagaita

So here we are in the buuuussshhhh bush bush. there is NOTHING but sand, rocks, bugs, scraggly trees, and HOT air. It hit at least 105 degrees Farenheit every day. The stars at night are so beautiful, and the sunrises are incredible. The week we spent here was slow. there wasn't much to do. All the people do here is drink and have sex. Seriously. The women have like 6 kids at least. They have small babies, and are hugely pregnant, all the time. AND they drink! It's so unhealthy. So we just sit with them in the river (by which I mean dry riverbed) and try to make conversation. But as always, there is a language barrier. But this time, there was a double barrier. From English to Swahili, and from Swahili to Pokot (the tribal language). Most if not all of them did not speak Swahili! So on sunday when I gave the message at "church" I am not sure how much actually got across. SO I preached for the first time ever. It was great. I loved it! We are only the third team to have come to this area, so we mostly were just building relationships. We did some door-to-door, or hut to hut I guess. We met people, prayed for them. We saw a few people healed, and many come to Christ. I just pray that the teams to come are able to foster these people and disciple them well. We got to help clean up an independently-run clinic, and some people even helped give shots. Every night we slept outside. There were so VERY large bugs...big furry white spiders, scorpions, beetles. I prayed every night that there wouldn't be bugs in my sleeping bag! One day we got to go to their "market". Mainly they just sell food and trinkets, like beads or string, and coke. On monday, the 23rd, we got back in the lorry in the afternoon, and went on our way. We dropped of the Romanina team that had been with us, then one of our two outreach teams from my DTS class. It was time to split, and it was really sad! I got bit by some weird bug, so I took benadryll. When my team arrived at our location nd met our pastor, I went straight to sleep, and slept all night!!!