4th of July

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July! The team here enjoyed not only celebrating the 4th together, but we also got to celebrate Robert's birthday. The day began by going to a small church in Ongota Rongi where we were asked to teach Sunday school. I had talked to the pastor the day before and he said he was teaching the shorter catechism to the adult Sunday school class. We had a book at our house which provided lessons for children's catechism so I thought it would be great if we worked side by side. Ha! What was I thinking! Well, I was thinking it was a great lesson, it was pretty basic, and I was thinking I WOULD HAVE A TRANSLATOR!!! Nope, that was not so. We arrived and some of the children spoke/understood English. For those of you who have never been to Kenya, Kenyans speak British English not my wonderful southern drawl American English. Oh, what a fun time that was. But in the end they did know that God made them and God made everything...2 down a 100 and some to go. :)

After church we headed back to our house to get the salad and birthday dessert for Robert's birthday party/4th of July celebration. We arrived back only to discover our security guard, Alfred, had gone to church and would not be arriving back to the house for at least another hour. So we headed to the Carr's house to help Lois only to arrive there and learn from Alfred that we had a key to the gate to get in...just be careful with the electric fence he said. That warms your heart don't you think?!? So we called a cab, and 3 of us head back to the house to figure out the gate thing. We arrive and learn our taxi driver can't take us back but will send someone else to come get us in 15 minutes. Perfect...now the gate. 2 girls try and get the gate unlocked while trying to keep the meanest German shepard at ease only to determine we cannot get the gate open. Who do we call...good ole Alfred. He is quickly become our favorite person and I'm sure we are quickly becoming his most annoying nightmare. :) He was headed home and laughs when he uses our key to unlock the 1st gate...of coarse right?!? Next he shows us how to unlock the electric fence so that we don't get the shock of our life. Thank you, Alfred. As we head towards the house here comes the rest of the pack of dogs only to have them break out into one massive dog fight! Yes, I screamed...all of us girls did. Alfred picked up rocks to throw and break it up...which it eventually did. For those of you who have never been near a full blown dog fight be thankful. It was not fun...
We finally made it back to the Carrs just as the chicken was coming off the grill. After lunch we sang Happy Birthday to Robert ate delicious homemade strawberry icecream made by Andrew with our Brownies and No Bake Cookies then set off a few 4th of July fireworks. It really was a great way to spend the day. Hope your 4th was great as well!

PS...I typed this fast so ignore any typing errors! ;)