We've got work to do.

Everyone: thank you so much for taking time to write comments! I love reading them. I get the comments sent to my e-mail, and this morning there were lots of em, so that was nice. It's good to hear from you.
We've been staying pretty buys over here. We've been in Nakuru for the past week continuing to prepare our lessons and our hearts. We have also spent some time catching up with friends from last summer which I've been enjoying. Eric is having us read a book called "Building on Firm Foundations" and I really like it. It was written by a missionary who found that the best way to teach people the bible is to teach it in its entirety, starting with a good Old Testament base that sets up the coming of Christ. If you're a person in a teaching position, I really recommend this book.
Yesterday we attended some Life Ministries meetings. Life Ministries is the East African branch of Campus Crusade. I really enjoyed it. We attended The Bridge Team which is sort of like the college group, but it focuses on kids who are done with secondary school and have yet to start college. It was nice being around people our age, because we don't see many of them. A lot of them are at boarding schools, so all of our ministry is done with younger children or adults and it was really nice just hanging out with some people our age. Sen. Obama is from Kenya, so all the Kenyans really like him and when they heard that I was from Illinois, they asked if I'll vote for Obama. I had to explain to all of them what was really going down and dash their hopes. The truth hurts.
We are also starting to give the truck a face lift. A lot of the wood it is composed of is rotting or breaking, so we bought a bunch of wood yesterday so we can do some repairs. The truck looks a lot different already. We have most of the rotting panels removed, and we'll but cutting the new ones soon. The only trouble we had was that whoever put this together did it with no pattern or method at all. Everything used different sized nuts and different bolts...it was like a puzzle. As you can see, we ripped that puzzle apart.
There is always some work to be done or business to take care of, but at the end of the day, we usually have a little treat. After we do a devotional together, we'll pray and maybe sing, and then we start up the projector and watch a couple episodes of 24. Behold the power of Bower!
We'll be heading out into the bush early next week. We weren't planning on going to Narok this time around, but I really wanted to so Eric said we could. I'm not sure of the exact dates, but we'll be there for about a week. After that, we'll come back here for a few days and make final preparations for the big one. One month out in Samburu. Next month is really going to be the meat of our trip, and I'm looking froward to it.
This morning we made a new friend. A street cat was hanging around Eric's gate last night, and this morning it came into the house. She's not very bothersome, so we will keep her around. Eric hadn't named her, so I named her Arwen. She is warming up to us nicely although she did get stuck in the couch this morning. Eric has pretty lame furniture and Arwen explored a little too far for her own good.

Well, that's all for now. Check back again, soon.