it's may already??

This week was a bit tougher than last, but I still choose joy and to praise God. The rain stopped but the mosquitoes were in full force anyway. :) My friends keep asking if I use the repellant, but despite layering it on twice a day and taking vitamin B and wearing longer clothes, my legs still look like a war zone. I am no longer counting and am really trying to focus and praise God despite this.

We began the week with some issues between people that needed to be worked out. On any team, there are bound to be issues that arise, and these were mostly cultural. We really had to take a stand together as a team and fight together in prayer and humility for our unity. Though it was difficult, we ended the week a whole lot stronger than we began it. I'm glad too, because when we head to our ministry in a month, we will face challenges that our unity will be so important for. I have grown to love these people, and it is so true that each challenge is just making us stronger together. What treasures they are to me!

Interestingly, we learned a lot in our lectures this week about pride. It was difficult to look so deeply into this, to see how destructive it is, and to humbly go before God and ask forgiveness. It was good to have some heart cleansing time, no matter how hard it was.

We also found out about our outreach months. For those of you interested, we are going to four other cities in Kenya for the last three months of our time here. It is so crazy to plan it out, knowing that I will be leaving right after and my life will change so much within days. Anyway, we leave on June 4 to a place about an hour south of here, called Golini. We will be working on a water project there for three weeks. I am really excited mostly because we have been praying hard and hearing what God wants us to do there. After we leave Golini, we will head to the west of Kenya, to a city called Kitale. Lilian is from there, and we will hopefully get to go and see the orphanage that she helps at. We will be there for 2-3 weeks, then head to Eldoret, not too far from there. I'm not sure what we're going to be doing in both Kitale and Eldoret - it is something we are still praying about. Finally, we will come back this way, and go to Vipingo, which is about an hour north of Mombasa. We will come back to the base in Mombasa on August 18, and then I will be heading home a few days later. Crazy! There is a high possibility that I will not have any access to internet during that time, so I will have Cindy blog for me periodically if that happens. We have been pretty excited as we prepare and learn as a team for these places. :)

Finally, I just have to end talking about baby Davin. What a cutie. His parents are leaders of the other class on base, so he and his older 2 year old sister Daniella are lovely additions to have at our base. They are so fun. Davin has recently learned to wave, and has been laughing a lot this week too. What fun! He has this huge smile (with two teeth growing in on the bottom) and I have such fun watching him and Daniella. They are fresh in my mind because I just was with them before I came here to the Internet. :)