Dear Family and friends:
Another week completed. There were a few good things that happened; hopefully one of the changes made will allow one of the dredges to deliver more material to the new plant. That will be a big deal because under producing has been a problem.
The New plant was scheduled to go down tomorrow for 7 days to complete a number of modification and make repairs to equipment. But I got a call in church today that problems had come up; so the decision was made to take the plant down today. One of the problems with going down early is that schedules had been put together for people to arrive for work tomorrow. Fortunately many of the people that do the work live in Magadi so they were available to come in today and begin some shut down work. So by the time I got back from church, a few jobs had already been started.
Today in church a woman got up and bore her testimony, she said that she wanted her children to grow up and go on missions and went on to say how much she loved the gospel. Come to find she is just taking the lessons. I guess she is what you would call a golden contact. Her husband is a member but for some reason she has never come to church. Speaking of church, I am amazed by how reverent kids are here. There are a lot of young people and many come without their parents. Primary kids sit by themselves during sacrament meeting without making a peep. Amazing!
The safari drive to church didn’t have much wild life. But what did surprise me was how big ostriches are. There was one just right by the side of the road, I had to do a bubble take because it was so big. There were some little dig-digs too. They look like a very small deer. About three times the size of Shena’s attack dogs. And then there were the regular baboons. They are all over the place.
Work is about completed on installing the dental chair for Debi. I’ll have to check on what equipment they have and what they plan to buy. I’ll send the information along Debi and you can determine what else you will need. You will be able to work your own schedule; either as much as you want or a little as you want.
Tried to break the boredom this week a little and went out to a rock face and did some climbing. I brought back a rope, harness, shoes and a device that will allow me to climb safely by myself (it will catch me if I fall). The rock face is on the road out of town and to a number of communities of the local people. So when they saw a crazy white guy up on the rocks they had to come look. I did one easy route just to see what the rock was like and by the time I got back down one to the local guys had completed the route also. He was pretty proud of himself. They wanted to do another route that was a lot more difficult so I put up the rope and started climbing. Fortunately the Massai guy couldn’t do that route (my ego had been spared). That is all I need is to have a guy that has never climbed doing what I did. But by the time all this had worked itself out, there was a crowd of women and children. I got a standing “O” for finishing the last route. When I was packing everything up the group wanted to know when we were going to do it again. So May 15th is the next date. Note to self – take water!!!! When I got back to town I drank three liters of water. It was very hot and I was soaked from sweat.
Enough babbling, you’ve probably have heard enough. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate getting your emails, notes on face book and text messages. It helps me know that whatever sacrifice I make here is appreciated and that makes the effort worthwhile. Getting up in the morning to find a text makes the whole day go better.
I asked Greg to put together a conference call next Saturday; could we schedule it for 9:00 am St. George time, 8:00 am Van Nuys time and 6:00 pm my time. Hope everyone will be able to make it.
Love you all
Paul/Dad
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