Marlene's update

Wednesday, the 9th, I went with another volunteer to the hospital to do visitation in the children's wards. We passed out color sheets and crayons, praying with some of the mom's for their sick babies. Some understand and speak English, and some do not. We did not have an interpreter this time. One little orphan girl had recently prayed to receive Christ, and she was excited to receive a new Bible. Many of the children already know Jesus, attend church and love to have us come pray with them. They love getting their picture taken and then seeing it.

Next week I hope to volunteer in the Infant Nursery at the hospital and hold and "cup" feed some babies. The mom's express milk for these feeding for when they can't be there. I still don't know why they don't use bottles, or how it works to cup feed?? I guess I'll find out this week.



We enjoyed a great experience going on an African Safari this weekend to the Massai Mara area.

The only discouraging thing was that Jude was sick all weekend. He had a fever, so was fussy when the Motrin wore off every 5 hours or so. He seems to be feeling better this evening.

He and Hudson actually slept almost all the way to and from the game park, which is about a 2 hour drive down the worst roads I have ever seen - muddy, and extremely bumpy. I don't know how they slept through it!

Hudson loved the animals, and we all enjoyed them too. We saw just about everything - lions, elephants, gazel, impala, zebra, giraffe, hyenna, dik diks, ostridge, etc. The first time out (of 4) we got stuck in a huge mud hole. They had to call for help to pull us out, thankfully right before sunset! We were the only people at the game park - the 6 of us, and one other couple from Tenwek. Business has been slow due to the recent crisis and rainy season. But they served us well, and the tent cabins were very nice.



One amusing thing has been getting Hudson to take his malaria pills. Kyle smashes up his pill, and mixes it with either peanut butter or something else to disguise it. Tonight he put it in Hudson's pudding when Hudson wasn't looking. Hudson had been looking forward to the pudding, but when he took one bite, he said "something's wrong". Kyle then took another pill, smashing it up and put it in an orange drink. Hudson was excited to have orange drink, but taking one sip, said, he pushed it away and said "here, Dad, you drink this". We laughed so hard!!

He's too smart. He had gotten a few spankings when he didn't want to eat it with the peanut butter, then finally ate it. Now we are starting to see that it must really taste bad, but we are afraid to taste it ourselves!



All for now.

Marlene