I will say it again, Rejoice!

Hellooooo!!!

Ok I'll write a longer post this week & send it, but really quick I wanted to say hello! A lot has been going on that I want to write about, but it's midnight here and I'm falling asleep. We had our Spiritual Life Conference last weekend, it was wonderful - and I think I gained like 10 lbs eating the yummy familiar food...donuts and muffins at tea time? Fantastic. Getting to know missionaries who have lived here for years? Even more fantastic.

Jennilynn, our new teammate, arrived on Monday! Lindsey & I stayed in Nairobi with her to help her get oriented to Kenya and prepare her for living up-country at Tumaini. She's suuuuper sweet, reminds me of my cousin Jadrien. We're so glad she's here.

We have lots of little projects to work on at Tumaini, and more have come up! Fun stuff - I'm going to teach someone piano lessons (and so will Jennilynn, she knows chords and I don't, yay!). There's a boy here with Special Needs...I'm about 95% sure he has Mental Retardation, and I found out recently that he isn't reading on a Grade 7 level like the rest of his peers. He's about 15 years old. I read with him last week, and now I have a good idea of what he needs. And praise the LORD - my mom sent me a package with this little flash card/word game in it that will be perfect for what he needs to practice.

This Saturday for Valentine's Day, we're having a girls' night with the teenage girls. We made them personalized bookmarks that we laminated in Nairobi, and we're cooking heart-shaped chapati. If we can, we'll try to get some chocolate for them to spread on their chapati (sweet bread). The bookmarks have a pretty picture of them on it with the verse Psalm 23:6. "Surely goodness and love with pursue Mary all the days of her life, and she will dwell in the house of the LORD forever." I'm not sure what Bible version that is from, but we liked it that the word "pursue" was in there. I'll take a picture and post it when I can. Jennilynn thought it would be fun if we all took spiritual gifts quizzes that night, which is perfect because they expressed interest in knowing their spiritual gifts. They've never done something like that, so I think it will be fun. We didn't know they celebrated Valentine's Day in Kenya until we came to Nairobi and saw all the Valentine's stuff in stores. Maybe some people do and some don't? I don't know.

I do have some funny stories to tell and some more details about what I've been up to lately to write, but I'll have to continue later!

lata!
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