Hut Mudding

Today was the day that we had all waited for anxiously.  We began talking about it when we showed up, we learned about the family, and kept updated on the progress of the frame of the house.  Everything happened according to plan this year!  We headed to the land around 9 A.M. and met with Rosemary in her old house, said a prayer, and got to work.  It was hard to comprehend that someone could live in such conditions with 4 children (3 of which were still at home).  The house had a definite lean and plenty of holes in the roof.

It started out a little slow, we all had a lot of learning to do with rolling and packing the mud and choosing the right rocks for filler.  After a while, more help showed up.  The NEEMA women's group showed up to help fling mud as well, and I will be the first to say they put us all to shame!  They worked quick and were very patient with us.  From beginning to end, the project took 4 hours.  That included a tea break, which we are all in favor of, and downtime waiting for more water to arrive.  After the house was completed, after picture were taken, we entered the new house and joined in song and prayer.  Rosemary, her family, her neighbors, we very appreciative of the new house.  We are all just praying that the house will be finished by the time the rainy season begins, which could be any time.

I was told many times that I won because I had the most mud on me :)  Anyone who knows me is probably not surprised.  The ladies at the Meeker's house sure got a laugh.  We cleaned up, ate lunch, and headed up to the school for some unexpected time with the kids.  We set up the volleyball nets and had some instruction time with a few teachers.  The ladies handed out some beads for necklaces, and they have stories from that, and then met up with Anderson, our safari guide.

Some of us snuck back over to the dorms and handed out some glo-stick brackets.  Jana, this was a great idea!  I have never head giggles like that :)  We closed the night by leading devotions again with the older dorms and said our goodbyes until Saturday.

Tomorrow we head to the Mara!!  I will do a picture blog tomorrow night (3/6) so that you can see a little bit of God's creation that we are experiencing.