Part 2: Kargi

Once we arrived in Marsabit (where Mary and Shelby live), we met all of the interns.  They are awesome college students from MC, Ole Miss, and MSU that stayed for 6 weeks, living the life of missionaries.  They got to experience some pretty cool things.  Mrs. Mary made us taco soup for dinner!  Then we crashed, and planned to leave the next morning at 8AM.  Little did we know that The Beast was having technical difficulties.  We actually left around 10 AM after a yummy American breakfast.  We didn't know what we were getting ourselves into!  Some of the Rendille people caught a ride on the trip to Kargi from Marsabit.

The drive to Kargi lasted about 2 hours (about 60 -70 km).  We arrived to children running from everywhere yelling Mazungu, Jambo, and "How are you?".

 We played with the children for a long time on the first day and then we set up camp...

 As you can tell, we are sleeping on rocks.  And it is so hot at night that you have to sleep outside your tent to feel any air, but the air you do feel is full of dirt and sand.  And you take your showers at night, so the next morning you are just as dirty as you were before your shower! FUN!

This was the worst part of the trip... the POTTY

Reuben cooked all of our meals over a campfire and it was always dark by the time we ate... so we ate with our head lamps.  There was also no where to keep anything refrigerated or even cold, so we didn't ask any questions as to how we were having whole chickens and steak on day 4 and 5.

After Dinner every night, we sang praise and worship songs

 by headlamp ha

Algo, our guard, who stayed awake 24 hours a day to guard our camp! 

He can throw a spear like a champ!

Mary and Shelby's "home" in Kargi

 

Our Pharmacy

"the doctor's office"

Hundreds of people waiting in line for the pharmacy everyday

When the people came out of the pharmacy with their meds, we had an evangelism team set up to tell them about our God

The elder men sat around like this.. ALL DAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rendille homes

When we weren't helping in the pharmacy we were teaching people how to wash their hands, and why it was so important

and teaching in the schools

Last but not least, our favorite rendille elder: Francis.  He adopted me and gave me the name Hamado.  He wanted to give us a goat.. Joseph gave him his Bible because he can read English. He is on fire for God.  He is now a Clinton Arrow!!

Part 3 will be about our safari!!