Lake Turkana Teasdales

Happy New Year!!!!

I thought I would just write a quick little letter to say hello and let you all know that we are doing great! We haven’t been sick (with anything bad) and had the most wonderful 2 week break! The New Year’s games were very fun. Everyone was laughing and being silly. I have included a few pictures of some of the games.

We also had a day at the “beach” with our fellow missionaries. Around the lake shore there are mostly rocks but we have found one stretch about a hour from our house that has sand so we all packed up our four wheelers and spent a day at the beach. The guys loaded up tarps and ropes to construct a tent for us and we even brought a water tank and pump to get water from the lake! So the kids had a little “pool” from the water tank and we had a “water slide”. It was such a fun day.

We still have some grass and green, but the picture you see was taken early December right by the lake. Isn’t it amazingly beautiful? This view is normally completely gray, brown, and all rocks.

Our ladies bible study Christmas party included several games. One of the games was to dress up 3 Kenyan ladies like us and they dressed us up like Samburu ladies. (beads, skins, etc) This was so fun and everyone was laughing. Here you can see Nonurro and Theresa. They had a blast.

A Great Quote:

I have been reading John MacArthur’s book, “Slave” It is an incredible book for those of you who haven’t read it and I found this amazing quote from Alexander Maclaren that I just had to share with you all. (Maclaren was a Scottish pastor and a contemporary of Charles Spurgeon)

“The true position, then, for a man is be God’s slave…Absolute submission, unconditional obedience, on the slave’s part: and on the part of the Master complete ownership, the right of life and death, the right of disposing of all goods and chattels,…the right of issuing commandments without a reason, the right to expect that those commandments shall be swiftly, unhesitatingly, punctiliously, and completely performed—these things inhere in our relation to God, Blessed [is] the man who has learned that they do and has accepted them as his highest glory and the security of his most blessed life! For, brethren, such submission, absolute and unconditional, the blending and the absorption of my own will in his will, is the secret of all that makes manhood glorious and great and happy…[I]n the New Testament these names of slave and owner are transferred to Christians and Jesus Christ.”

Prayer Requests:

The work and classes have begun again! Please pray for us as we are teaching. (I am starting to teach a little too—in Swahili—ahhh!) We are doing well and staying healthy. Thank you for your prayers and support!

Love,

Callie +2