Lake Turkana Teasdales

A Great Verse:

Psalm 119: 59—I considered my ways, and turned my feet to Your testimonies.

A Glimpse of Life in Kenya:

Monkeys—Ok, it was bound to happen….I am not terribly fond of monkeys anymore. Yes, they are still incredibly cute with their little hands and their bug eyes. BUT…they steal and destroy things!!!! Ahhhh, because we live in the middle of the desert, we never see monkeys in Loy but we love seeing them when we come down country. Bella squeals with delight when she sees them on the side of the road or in trees. However, monkeys snuck into our shop (in Nairobi) and ripped open two of my (rather expensive) bags of dried fruit. I was quite put out! (Because monkeys carry diseases humans can get, we had to throw the bags away!) Then, one little black monkey—the ringleader—snuck into a fellow missionary’s container!!!…. and stole a little bunch of bananas. Oh my goodness! So, needless to say, now when the little boys are throwing rocks at the monkeys to get them away from our containers, I say Bella can join them!

Updates:

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas! I suppose that the Nov. and Dec. prayer letters have been combined this year! Somehow in the midst of all our daily chaos these letters got away from me. So sorry!

Well, we have been in Nairobi for the past week and the week before we were in Maasai Mara. (another mission station) We were able to celebrate Thanksgiving with fellow missionary families and just relax for a few days as it rained every day we were in Maasai! This was my first time to visit Maasai but because of the rain we weren’t able to drive in the game park. Oh well—we have an excuse to go back!

Thank you for your prayers for our truck! Paul finished working on it at 2AM the morning we were to leave Loy! It still needs several more things but it is definitely working better and the bed is completely finished which has made the truck amazingly lighter!

As the month of December has come upon us we are excited to begin preparing for the Christmas festivities in Loy. There is going to be a Christmas presentation as the various Sunday school classes are memorizing scripture, songs, and our primary class will give a short skit as well. Christmas morning will bring chai and donuts at 8:00 AM followed by the Christmas service/presentation at 9:00. (We try to celebrate early as December is quite hot in Loy!) December also brings a two week “break” to our mission station as the work crew gets off, and devotions as well as the various bible studies are postponed until Jan. We are looking forward to some rest and family time.

Prayer Requests:

Health—Please always pray for our heath! And we have just heard (because at all our wonderful rain!!! Truly is a blessing) malaria is all over Loy right now. We are still incredibly thankful for our rain, but please pray for the health of the locals in Loy as well as for us.

My Swahili—I am still working on it! I can hear more and talk a bit more but I am still not fully grasping it! Please pray for my mind to absorb the Swahili language as well as for me to be diligent to study and make time everyday to practice my new works and phrases.

Wisdom and joy as we go about our daily activities.

Love,

Callie +2