Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY!

Hello everyone! It is Tuesday afternoon here in Mombasa. ALOT has happened the last few days. Sorry I didn't post sooner, but I haven't been able to use the internet since Saturday night.

On Sunday we were guests at Mtepani's church service. It was awesome. They sing and sing and sing some more! During the sermon, we broke the kids into groups and entertained them in classrooms. My group did a skit (that I wrote) about Daniel and the Lion's Den. It was pretty funny because doing a skit and having an interpreter repeat everything you're saying in Swahili is HARD! We also taught them "Jesus Loves Me" in sign language. After the service everyone moved outside for the baptism service. It was AWESOME! There were SO many people there! I took lots of pictures and a few videos. After that we served lunch to all the people and then packed up to leave. We returned to our hotel in the middle of the afternoon and had the rest of the day to shower and pack.

Yesterday morning we left for our safari. We had four safari fans. They are neat because the roof of the van pops up and you can stand up to look out. We drove for a few hours and once we reached the park, we drove around looking for animals for about two hours. We saw ALOT of elephants and some were very close to our vans. We headed for the safari lodge, checked in, and had lunch. I took about an hour nap before we headed out again. We went on another 2 hour ride and saw lots of animals again including a Cheetah. It was kind of far away though but I could see it through banaculars. It's so funny because the van drivers talk to eachother through the radio, so when someone spots something good, all the others drive real REAL fast to the same spot. There were probably twenty vans watching the cheetah. We had inner at the lodge that night, had devotional, and then went to bed. This morning we went on another ride from 6:30am -8:30am. We saw a family of 10 or 12 lions. It was really cool. We ate breakfast at the lodge after that and drove back to Mombasa. We already checked out of our rooms yesterday but the hotel gave us two rooms today to take showers in. We're leaving in about 30 minutes to head to the airport.

Hopefully our flights home are better than our flights here. I should be home tomorrow afternoon around 3:45. This has been such an amazing experience and it's thanks to all of you! Thank you so much for donating supplies, money, and LOVE to me:) I took lots of pictures and can't WAIT to be home!