Whats up friends! So today was the dopest day ever.. We woke up and cruised into Changamwe to go to church and it was crazy. There were a good twenty people there but it was pretty cool cause they all spoke English. It is weird too cause the ward was right in the middle of the grossest and dirtiest part of town and especially the sketchiest. But they love white people everywhere we go, especially in the church. It looked like we were going to get robbed cause it was down this back alley and then you look up and it says in written letters “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.” It was pretty dope though and then we went into this place called the Akamba Carvers and they are a tribe that makes their living off of nothing but wood carvings. You know that carving in Aunt Rose’s house of that giraffe? They carve animals of all kinds like that and they use nothing but a hand saw looking thing and files. We got to see the guys actually making everything and it is crazy how skilled they are. The crazy thing is that they all live in little grass huts with barely any clothes on but they whip out tons of these animals all freakin day and they are honestly the sickest things I have ever seen. One guy was making walking sticks that truly almost had me reaching in my wallet and grab a twenty to give to him but I didn’t have my money so I couldn’t buy anything! Then we finally drove into the village of Mnyenzeni today and it is the craziest thing between the town and the village out here. Right when we rolled in, there was this welcoming committee of little kids that sang and danced for us it was so funny, I filmed all of it and I will send it to ya when I actually have this internet thing figured out. They honestly sang and danced for us for a good hour and then we got a tour of everything going on here in the village. Since Koins came along, they have given this village a girls high school, the KCC, a wood shop, a tractor and a bunch of dorm rooms for the girls to live while they are going to school. Tell McCall that she has no idea how good she lives, here in Kenya they have to wake up at 5 in the morning to start class and they have 10 periods a day and they don’t get out of class until 10:30 and that doesn’t count homework or anything, that is when they get out of CLASS! Yeah, kill me just thinkin about that. They also have to live at the school because some of them come from like 40 miles away to come to school. I got tons of pictures and videos I will send so you can actually kinda have a good idea of where I am at. Mom would honestly be the biggest wreck if she was here, there have been some moments when I just have to close my eyes and act like I didn’t just see what happened and walk away. It has been crazy, but I have been here two days and I freakin love this place. The sky here is soooo bright, if you think lake powell stars are cool, they got nothing on Mnyenzeni stars. But any way, that’s all I got for tonight, we are about to hit the sack and tomorrow we actually start working with all the people,so until next time, laterrrrrrrrr
Dallin
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