December 25th

This morning I was going to go to Alusine’s church, the DDM (Disciple
Deliverance Ministries) but he didn’t get to the house till almost 11 so we went
over to the Katherie church for the Christmas service because I figure by the
time we walked to where the church was (a little past Kamakwie 2) the service
would be over. We made it to about half the service but I enjoyed it and I got
to listen to Solomon speak, he does really well. I tease him sometimes calling
him CHO, Midwife, chef, pastor Solomon because he is quite talented at a variety
of things. Since we missed the beginningI don’t know if the service was much
different from a normal service as the message comes pretty close to the end.
After church Alusine and I came up to the house and we worked on math for a
little while and I let him type some on my computer. Let’s just say that we have
a lot of work to do on his writing. Karen invited him to come have lunch with
us, we had receive several gifts of African food this morning and so we had some
food to spare. After lunch I rested outside with Alusine and we did a little
more math. After it had cooled off some we walked to the orphanage where they
were having a Christmas party. Mostly it consisted of them getting a little bit
of food and then dancing. It was a lot of fun and I took a bunch of pictures,
I’ll try to get some more pictures up on my facebook. I need to put some up
because I haven’t put any up in a while. The Aunties were all thrilled I visited
and the kids loved it too. They kept trying to get me to dance and I tried my
best. I’m not much of a dancer so I felt like a bit of a fool. Unfortunately I
couldn’t stay very long because I had to be home by 6 for dinner. After dinner
we went down to the hospital because Tom was showing a newer and very well done
version of the nativity story. It was quite amazing in not only its production
but the depth of detail in the telling of the story. I hope the Africans enjoyed
it as much as I did. I went to bed at a little before 12. I received a call at
5:45 in the morning to ask how my sleep was… I told him not done yet and went
back to sleep.

Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks