Tuesday

And yet another adventure!!

I went to bed pretty early last night, so my body clock decided to not sleep in. I woke up at 5 WIDE AWAKE and ready to face the day. So, as opposed to going back to sleep, I facebook messaged Kyle (it was 9pm in Dallas) and chatted with him for a while. I knew I was getting up to run, and tried to convince myself to just do it earlier, therefore showering earlier, and therefore going to sleep between the shower and class. This seemed to be a good plan, and 40 minutes later I rolled out of bed to run. I started at like 5:45, and it was super cool. Nairobi is a veryyy busy city. It's a huge city as well! But when i got up to run, besides some guards doing their walk arounds, there was hardly any sound. Even the obnoxious birds that I can't help but like weren't up. There is a part of the path that I run that is my favorite. There is a section of trees that has some Citronella Chilean Trees (smells like citronella, aka no mosquitoes woo) and right past it is some sort of tree that produces neon purple flowers. This is as cool as it sounds, and when it's dark at 5:45 am, it's even cooler. They seemed to glow in the darkness. I took that as a 'time to start shining' moment with Jesus.

I knew that He would do something similar to that on my run, because today was a big day. God let my insecurities slide yesterday, but not today. First, classes were great. Minus the first one, the guided quiet time... I fell asleep multiple times. I haven't ever felt THAT drowsy. I felt as if I had taken a benadryl... which is strong for me. So, in between guided quiet time and story telling classes, they had decided to do a short worship. I took this opportunity to answer what I felt like was a call from God and I hopped in bed for 20ish minutes. This was JUST what I needed to rejuvinate. Oh, and breakfast helped too :)

Following a struggle with sleepiness, we set up the plans for the rest of the day. Today we would be going to do 'discovery ministry' where we just go on a university and 'discover' what God wants us to do. I am comfortable with this because it means just finding someone and talking with them. When Jane, my Kenyan partner (we were grouped into twos) mentioned going door to door like w were going to do the day before.... I was nervous all over again. I had prepared for easy conversation.. not the one thing I was relieved that I didn't have to do!! But I said that it was fine, and pretended to not be nervous.

 We went to a 'hostel' aka dorm, that was all girls. There wasn't any time for prayer or anything. Jane walked up to a door and knocked. I was taken aback but didn't feel the fear I had just felt. Turns out the first group we talked to were in a religious studies class together. I asked them to talk about the controversial stuff... maybe not the best idea for right off the bat conversation... but it struck up some good knowledge and added room to ask what they thought about the gospel. The next room was two girls that have struggles with peer pressure and conformity at school, and I was able to share my own testimony through that. The 3rd room was a Muslim girl, who we simply asked about her own faith and left it at that since she had a class to go to. The last room was a room filled with born again Christians that struggled with peer pressure and just avoiding non-believers and 'clubbing' people. The Lord spoke through me (literally at some points I didn't have control over my words) and convicted them of not loving like Jesus did. Who did Jesus hang with? The lepers, the gentiles, the poor... Why do we turn away?


We were so in depth in conversation that we ran past the time we were supposed to be meeting the group. I'd say that's a win :)


And of course, nothing better than returning to the compound to be greeted with chapati and a movie night- Out of Africa!!!


Bed time now :) i'll try to post more later!
Kwaheri!
Molly