May - Letter from Leory part 1

Hello Everyone,

Well, another month has almost rolled by. We just returned from Pokot bush country. Didn’t intend to come back today but a lady from Mt. Koroko got very ill. So we brought her to a Doctor at Makatono. That’s about forty miles from Kitale. Have no idea what was wrong with her, but she sure didn’t navigate very well. Think she rode most of the way with her head on Mary’s shoulder. We pray to God that what she has is not catching. A week ago Saturday we helped the pastors build a shelter at Kaseito to hold services with some protection from the weather. They seemed very pleased with the efforts that went into building it. We are just about done with the Mission House at Kamaketto. We are building a storage unit there now. It will house our tools and be a place for our guard to stay when it rains. The fonda’s (carpenters) are also finishing the painting on the house. We would like to have a dedication service to give it to the Lord, don’t know when that will be. I still need to set the water tanks to catch water off the roof. We have a water purification system that Crossroads Church brought us. I want to get it set up and to working off a solar system that Crossroads also furnished us with. The well at Kamaketto is working good but the water looks dirty to me. We will test it next week and see if it is good to use. We don’t use it for anything but to wash with, but I am afraid it might make someone sick. We plan to start moving into our headquarters house next week. We have already taken the shower house over there. I don’t want to be in the fonda’s way so I just haul water and sand, then bring the building material down from the Kitale area. We attended church Sunday at Mkongor, it’s a new church we started under the trees. The people built a shelter (like a brush arbor), it just protects them from the sun, so we took a big tarp the Hervey’s had bought for them to put over it for rain protection. We have some heavy plastic to make a windbreak until the Good Lord provides funds to build them a church building. The people were very happy to get the tarp, they testified for a long while about the goodness of the Lord. Kisamoi gave his testimony and led them in a praise song in the Pokot language. We couldn't understand the words but I am sure God enjoyed it. After the service we went to a pastors hut for lunch. Just a mud hut with a thatch grass roof, we had ten people in there while the Mama’served us chicken and rice and beans. Then we had chi to drink and that’s African style too. Its tea with lots of hot milk and enough sugar to almost call it syrup. It was a good day in the Lord.