Well it is now May 15th and we have been over a little over a week. We have found a place we would like to rent that would allow us to have room for guests. We are waiting to meet with the owners next week to see if they will keep the rent at an affordable price. I f so we will most likely move in to this home in June. We will be starting form scratch so we will have to acquire everything from beds, tables, pots, and pans. So there will be a lot of work just getting that ready.
Elijah has started school this week and he likes it very much. This was one of our greatest concerns. But, he fell right into it. It has only been two days now but two good ones. He thinks that it is really neat that all of his classmates are from all over the world. Ireland, Rwanda, Egypt. So we are praying that he continues to like his school, and get a great education and experience at the same time.
We have not gotten a car yet and are traversing any way possible. Matatu, TukTuk (a three wheel vehicle) and a BodaBoda (bicycle with a small seat on the back) these have all been an experience. You have never experienced public transportation until you have experienced it in Kenya. I am getting a little familiar with the way life runs around here. It will take some getting used to and I have to admit I can really miss some of the conveniences of home. Life is a bit harder here. But it kind of makes you feel alive.
But we do miss friends and family very much.
We have been getting to know a lot of the street boys in downtown Nakuru, and they really love Joseph. I believe they think he is John Claude Van Damm or something. (they still like him here) The ministry to them is an everyday occurrence. You literally cannot walk down the street with out encountering them. Take for example yesterday we went to go to the hardware store to see about getting piping for the land, and we came across Simon. If you could see this little boy your heart would just break. He is about 12 or 13 he looks about 8years old. He was in dirty torn rags with a huge oversized ripped up men’s old suit jacket. He looked very listless. Joseph and I took him into a nearby store and bought him jeans and a shirt it is not much but what we can do at this point. The needs here are insurmountable. Simon is just one of many we know many of these children and meet more each day. We also met Peter and Simon (Another Simon) they wanted food, and Peter wanted to go to school. I some cases I think that a lot of these children may live with one parent or a grandparent, and they are told to go to the streets to make money or get food for themselves. We helped a boy last week named Joseph he first told us that he was hungry and after we sat with him for a while he let us know that he wanted to go to school and could not because he needed shoes. We met him the next day and purchased him shoes. There was also Esther she is probably 15 or 16 and she has a baby named Daniel. He is about 1 years old. They are living on the streets. These children are out here due to the AIDS pandemic, and Poverty, and in many cases are discarded from their homes like trash. As in Lazarus’ case his father beats him and is an alcoholic. He has been left to resort to living on the streets rather than be beat by his father. He is one bright boy. These are just a few of the stories of the children that we have met, and we will continue to earn there love and respect so that we will be able to help them more in the future.
