It is Monday evening so I will try and get this update off before calling it a day. The internet has not been too friendly today but we seem to finally have a good connection this evening. I guess it is Labor Day back home today. Didn't have any impact on us until we tried to stop at the embassy for mail and the gates were locked up tight so will make that run again Wednesday after we finish at St. Mary's. We have several letters we need to post plus a few from the other couples. A new couple arrived last evening. They are the Esplins from Bountiful, Utah and they have been assigned to work in Chuylu. They attended FHE and introduced themselves this evening. I am sure they will do okay but everyone was careful not to mention road conditions as their situation requires they travel conditions similar to ours. They do have a flat up country with 4 young Elders so only make the trip once a week.
We got 17 people from Kilili in to complete their passport applications and receive yellow fever shots. Just need to wait on immigration now to give them their passports. That has not gone real smooth for many of the others going to the temple in the past but we hope we are early enough that they will all have them in the next 6 weeks. The 3 branch presidents came to Nairobi for training with President Taylor on last Friday so we did not travel to Ilima that day. My companion stayed here in the flat working on some projects while I participated in the training. I made some sandwiches and brownies and we had kind of a working lunch to maximize the training time. Because of the uncertainty of travel conditions we were about 90 minutes late getting started but there were some good things accomplished. Put our Sep. calendar together over the weekend and we have scheduled a baptism at Kyambeke for the 14th and hopefully 4 of our investigators will be ready by then.
I finally got the facilities folks to purchase a TV and DVD player for supporting the branches. Each branch should have their own but because some are concerned that they can't be secured it hasn't happened in the past. Each branch does receive DVDs of conference and world wide training as they happen so they have quite a stack of un-opened discs. Of course there is also the issue of no electricity but I had got the mission to buy me a generator some time ago so now I am just leaving the video equipment and generator at each branch for a week each month and they can do with it what they will. Be interesting to see how they use it. We had purchased our own Church History DVD at the Service Center and will leave that with it. Ilima is the only folks so far who have wanted me to hunt up some other movies so I borrowed a couple of Disney type from one of the other couples. We did have BeckyAnn send over our VCR version of The Other Side of Heaven and I found an old VCR player at the Mission Office that I include with the equipment I leave. DVDs are one of the things that the street vendors hawk and they seem to be of the opinion that all us Mazungus just can't wait to get our hands on their latest offerings. I am sure most of them are pirated and they are probably quite reasonable but it has been no great effort to resist their persistent salesmanship as that is not what we are here for.
This is the week that Julius and Kennedy go to the MTC in Johannesburg so we will bring them back from Kilili with us tomorrow. They will get set apart on Wednesday and we will put them on the plane early Thursday. We are still on track with the 4 young men from Kyambeke and we should have their passport applications in by early October so hope to have their mission papers in before years end.
Well my eye lids are getting heavy so I am going to sign off.
Elder & Sister Bishop
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