A Fun Day

Saturday we had leadership training scheduled for 10am. But we had a baptism about that time-- this great young man-- so the training, with typical Kenyan flexibility-- was pushed back about an hour. When the training was over 1pm, we had a quick lunch and went out to the Robari home site.

Bro. Robari was a member who lived in South Africa. He had been a great blessing to his home area, 50km from here-- better roads, an orphanage, work for people. After he joined the church he was vastly blessed and shared those blessing with his village. They had only a church with traditional beliefs, so he introduced gospel principles and built a Zion church for the people.

He passed away unexpectedly and the burial will be held this Saturday. We went to his property to bless the grave site as per the family's request. The missionaries had also been teaching some of the family members and they had invited the missionaries out to introduce the gospel to some of the family there.

We drove for about an hour, then parked at the new Roberi home site. We visited the house built for the burial and the footprint of the new house scheduled to be built. And a prayer was said at the grave site.

Then we started walking.... er... where were we walking? Not far. It seemed like we walked for about an hour-- down the hill, first on the marrum road, then on a "rough road" then on a foot path.

Elder Bakker had fun. He took a basket from the Mama, and was really quite well balanced. Naaman, brother to the late, asked it this was too much walking for Elder Fox, so E. Fox challenged him to a foot race to the upcoming primary school.

E. Fox also carried the basked. But I took a photo just as it slipped off. So this time, he had a little help keeping it on his head.

I really think I could have balanced it, but the wind was blowing SO hard. So sweet Margaret, the lady in pink, helped me with it.

This is the church Bro. Robai built for the people. It's the nicest one I've been in. Padded seats and all. And they are trying to start a radio station there to broadcast wholesome messages to the people. They interviewed Elder Fox while the missionaries were sharing a message of hope.

I visited with Naaman on the way back and didn't walk quite so leisurely, so it seemed to go faster. Of course I could have been hoofing it because of my aversion to night driving. In any case, we met some lovely children along the way. All the people were SO NICE. They just appreciated us coming out. They loved the gospel message. Our hearts go out so such good people who would love to embrace the gospel if it were more available to them.

Again and again we are reminded of Elder Snow's comment that there are villages waiting to be baptized but cannot be because there are not enough Senior Missionary couples out to help them grow properly.

We got back at dusk, but it was a great day!