After a week at Litein, I feel like I have learned much and grown closer to God but am also ready to move on. This place is absolutely beautiful with rolling hills you've never seen so green, and there's sooooo much tea!!! The custom here includes two tea breaks, one at 10am and one at 4pm... what a life!
We have had a lot of discussions at night with the team and have had a lot of Bible and prayer time as it is not safe to go out after dark. I am beginning to feel more and more that as much as my heart was full of a desire to come here and just serve in every corner, that does not seem to be a reality on this trip. We are serving in a little ways relationionally and in deworming kids in local schools and doing medical exams in orphanges but as a whole I feel like Im getting a lot more out of this trip than I am giving, which is sadly dissapointing. I feel very blessed to be able to shadow nurses and doctors here and its amazing how many times they have asked us to scrub in on a surgery or deliver a baby they are sooo very eager to teach us ( which because of africa inland missions guidelines we have had to refuse except for minor assistnace sorts of things). As a whole, the people here are extremely welcoming and they happily cook food for us and offer us tea and offer to show us things... never in my life have i been able to walk up to a theatre (surgery room) knock on the door and have them greet me although i came unannounced and give me scrubs and then teach me what they were doing. What a crazy thing! Please pray that I will be able to ascertain how i can truly serve in the way that God wants me to on this trip. I am struggling to find any nitch in which I am 'needed,' Kenya in a lot of ways has a good system going (although definately not perfect), but since i have not been to medical school as of yet I have nothing to teach in the medical arena and if i did being a shortermer, it would not be appropriate. More than anything this is a taste of medical mission life in Africa, it will be extremely helpful in helping me decide if this is something I can do longterm after i get my doctor of medicine... please pray for God to show me this clearly as well.
Tomorrow morning we will go to a church in the village and then meet up with a family in the community who we will be staying with for the next few days...it will be a look at what real life for a kenyan family is here in Litein. And then on Tuesday.... its off to Uganda!
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