It is Monday evening and we just finished hosting Family Home Evening for the 7 Nairobi couples. We spent the morning doing some banking for the branches, delivering reports, and picking up supplys at the Mission Office. We took the time to go visit Mwende in her new home at "The Sisters of Charity" and she is doing great. She acted a little shy while we were there and we thought maybe she was concerned that we were coming to move her again but she had her head up smiling before we left. The Sisters say they hear her singing with them while they are doing their morning vespers. They say she interacts with the other children by smiling and pointing. We have coordinated through LDS Charities for 10 smaller wheel chairs to be made by a local outfit and they are visiting tomorrow to get the specs. for constructing the chairs to best suit their needs.
We did get back on schedule last week and visited the 3 branches and were back to Ilima for church yesterday. We are leaving for Kilili again in the morning but are concerned that things could go crazy again this week. The negotiations between the PNU and ODM broke down without anything being decided. Parliment is starting tomorrow and the ODM are calling for increased demonstrations and even some strikes. Even though this last week was fairly calm and most of the holiday travelers that were stranded up country made it home the death toll is now over 600 with over 300,000 displaced villagers. No foreigners have been affected and the Church Security and US Embassy are keeping a close eye on developments. We really hate to cancel our visits as the people have to walk so far and most have no phones to alert them if we can't make it. Any potential baptisms have been disrupted to the point that nothing will happen before February. Kalunga Hills itself is free of any of the violence that is going on here in Nairobi, Mombasa, and the Rift Valley west of here.
We did experience a unique first in our visit to church Sunday. Rachel, one of the 15 year old twins we are teaching the discussions to, had asked if she could give a talk in Sacrament Meeting and she did a great job. I don't know how many times that has happened elsewhere in the church but I am sure it is not a common occurance.
Our struggle with Telkom for phone service continues. We do have a dial tone now and incoming calls work but when I try to dial out there is a recording that says "making calls from this phone is bad". I think the number for calling into Kenya would be 011-254-20-271-1122. Maybe if anyone has some minutes left on those phone cards we left they could give it a try and I am going to keep hounding the techs to solve our problem for outgoing calls. We sure wished we could have made contact at Christmas and for Bradleys birthday but we are really at their mercy for a solution. Bye for now.
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