mzungus.

Yesterday, we went to the biggest slum in Nairobi, Kiberi. At first, I hated being there. There are like 300,000 Africans who live there, and I just felt like we were on parade and the people just thought 'money' when they saw us. But the more we walked through, the more comfortable I became. We went with a man named Kip who is the coach of a football (soccer) team for kids. He lives there so he took us to his house. It was very small, but he was SO welcoming. Some of the kids here have never seen white people, so they are scared of us at first.

Today we went to church at International Christian Fellowship at Rosslyn Academy (an amerian school where a bunch of our first week campers attend). I didn't get to hear the message (Louie Giglio on a big screen...oh yeah!!), however, because I helped teach the 2-4 year old Sunday School class...which was like (for you Sardis people) having four Mallorys in one classroom...super fun:)

Now...off to my Sunday afternoon nap:)

Love.

a little update...

Kenya just keeps getting better and better! After we packed up camp, we headed back to Nairobi and spent the night....the next day we headed out for Ngong. We stayed with the most amazing missionary family ever...the Calvarts. We got a taste of what it is like to work with the Maasai people group. Those are the most precious children ever!! We are headed to western for a week and then to Uganda to raft the Nile...woohoo! Life here is so different, but so amazing. I have to go now to shop in the market! LOVE YOU ALL!

chocolate chip cookies make my heart smile:)

Camp has been AMAZING this week! I have been so surprised by all of the joy that the little kids bring! I have been working with Suswas (7 year old girls) and they are definitely the cutest kids at camp! One of them is from Korea...she LOVES Hello Kitty. Pretty much every article of clothing she owns is HK...how fitting that she is in mine and Jen's cabin! She also just started learning English in October...so she still doesn't understand everything...like: gold rocks, excited, sink, shoot, and I'm still adding to the list. All of our girls are very excited and interested in the story of Jesus. They are a lot different from the kids last week (missionary kids). These kids don't have as much "Sunday School" knowledge, so it's like getting to teach them for the very first time, which is exciting! Also, one of our girl's moms baked Chocolate Chip cookies for our cabin and brought them the very first day! For all of you Wheeler County people...they tasted JUST LIKE Mrs. Couey's! I was SO excited to have sweets that actually have sugar in them! haha. Kenyans don't really use sugar.
Tomorrow, we are packing up camp and going into Nairobi. We will be working there for a week and then going to Western Kenya and then to Uganda to RAFT THE NILE!! Then we will come back to Lukenya for three more weeks of Camp!!
I love you all! Hope everyone is having an amazing summer!

dust.

So today is the last full day of camp! We have had so much fun this week! We had a camp out that was almost rained out, but we ended up being able to have it anyways:) Yesterday we had a talent show and the kids were all so cute. Today we are playing a game called sock war...apparently it is a lot of fun; the kids are all stoked about it already! Please continue to pray for the campers and counselors! This morning our devotion was about what it means to follow Jesus...to be covered in the dust of your Rabbi's feet. A lot of our kids have a lot of head knowledge about Jesus, but living it out and having it in there hearts is a different story...well, got to go...but love you all SO much!!

katie:)

more camp!

So...camp started yesterday!! i have seven girls in my cabin! they are awesome! we are having skill time right now...i taught arts and crafts and then gymnastics. all of the kids are so precious! they are very excited about every little aspect of camp! most of the kids here this week are missionary kids. its awesome to see them soaking up God's love even though they've probably heard every Bible story a million times and could tell it better than us sometimes. They are still hungry for it, and its just inspiring! tomorrow, my mountain group (meru) is going ROCK CLIMBING! i'm really excited about that! well...gotta go to lunch!! Love you all!!