Employment Workshop

The Employment couple came to teach the Career Self-Reliance Workshop. It was a fantastic workshop attended by 12 people for two days from 9-4 each day. It gave specific techiques for presenting your best self whether at an interview, or if you were self-employed for your customers. It taught how to network and even as students worked at this between classes they met with some good success.
One of my favorite stories is of Solomon who had been out of work for years since the petrol station he worked at had been taken over by another company. He had attended the workshop several times, but had not applied all the skills they recommended. Finally, Sister R. told him he was not being obedient to what he knew. So he decided to practice the "30 Second Me" where you craft a 30 second statement telling what was most important about you for a potential employer. He went to a park and practiced his 30 second me for about 2 hours. Then he went to a petrol station. As he stood outside the manager's office, he got scared and left. As he walked away, he said, no. I have to be obedient and try. He practiced saying it out loud for a while, then went back. He got scared again, stopped at the pumps and practiced a few minutes more. Then he went to the manager's office. The manager said, "Didn't I see you just outside my door a little while ago?" Solomon said, "Yes, but I wasn't prepared then. Now I am."

He gave his 30 second me. And the manager invited him into his office and asked him to sit and tell him more. He was so excited about his success, he went to 20 more petrol stations. 17 of the managers invited him to come in, sit down, and talk with them and he ended up with 3 job offers.

Here is our group of happy graduates.

In the evenings we played Skippo with Elder and Sister R. and chatted far into the night. It was so fun to have another couple here to visit with.

Saturday we got up early and left about 6:30 to go to Dunga Beach and look at the lake and the birds.The night fishermen unloaded their catch, then headed off to park their boats.The day fishermen were just preparing to launch for the day.And the birds hung around to see if any of the fish or offul were available for consumption. Then we had leadership training from 10-12. We had a baptismal service that was supposed to be at 1 but ended up at 1:30. The elders were teaching the 9 men from Sondu again this weekend and they wanted to be taught again. We had a cottage meeting scheduled at 3pm. but pushed it back to 4. So we went shopping for some food for the R's return trip on Sunday and showed them a little more of the town before going to Manyatta and George and Elizabeth's house. There we showed the restoration. We visited with Joyce first and so it was about 6:30 by the time we were finished with it all. We had several people interested in learning more about the Gospel there and it was fun to answer questions. We'd decided to go out to dinner and tried a restaurant mentioned in our Kenya guide book. The food was good, the service very leisurely. We would have had time to play several rounds of Skippo before the food came. We returned home about 9:30. A long day!

Today was a good day, too. Helped a secretary learn her job. Helped with the investigator's Sunday school class, taught temple prep class and visited with a bunch of people. It was especially nice since Sister R. played the piano! It sounded so nice.