Day 3

Todays phone call came in around 11:30 and they were just about getting ready to go to bed. Nick described their rooms and his is 10' by 7' with a shower in it (but no running water) and a hole in the ground for their toilet. There is a dishrag used as a drape for one of the two windows. They got new 'mattresses' today which he equated to basically going to rooms to go and getting the cheapest kids mattress and then cut it in half and that is the final product...very uncomfortable. He will definiatly appreciate his bed and pillow when he gets home!
Today they traveled quite far to get to their destination where the UN was distributing food to the Samburu tribe. There were about 160 children and adults and about 60 babies from just weeks old to about 6 months. All of them accepted Christ! that is a total of 270+ now! He mentioned that the fathers sell their daughters to potential husbands around 10 years old and they begin having babies about at about 12. Im not sure how old the husbands are that buy the wives.
Their dinner consisted of rice, french fries, beans, slaw, carrots and sweet goat meat, ill spare the details on the process of the meat from living animal to table!
The weather has been beautiful at about 80-85 degrees during the day and cool at night. It has rained every day which is a blessing for them since they have had a horrible drought and famine for the past two years. There are no mosquitos! He spoke with a child that had a huge scar across his due to a hyena attack. He also spoke with a man who was attacked by a lion and lost most of his leg. Today they saw baboons, monkeys and goats (dont think they ate any of them! haha)
Jason is their driver, Patrick helps out as well. John is a member of the Samburu tribe that basically dropped everything to help with the missions and is now a full time preacher that goes with Dub on his missions in that region. Johana is fromt he Massai tribe and is with them as well, he has invited Nick to come back and bring Layne and me as well to the Massai nation, which supposedly is safer.
We had a nice long chat today...15 minutes! I will not take our long conversations for granted in the future. I love him....I miss him...