Dear Family and Friends:
Another week down the drain.
Pretty quiet at work this week. The new plant that I was sent here to help get producing set a weekly production record last week and had to shut down on Thursday and Friday because silos were full and the distribution and sales people couldn’t sell it fast enough. It’s nice to have the target off my back and on someone else’s back. I may have mentioned it last week, but the old plant has been struggling with production but its problems are known and will get fixed before long. Finances are improving quickly also. In a meeting on Wednesday, the accounting folks said we will have caught up on all our bills by the end of February so there won’t be any reason not to buy the parts we need to keep the plant operating. We’ll see!!!!
The weather here has been very hot. It has been 43 degrees some days (I’ll let you guys figure out how hot that is; I’ve had to do the calculation for a year now). So for those of you that are math challenged, 43 is hot!!!! Trust me…. It has been very dry also, with the exception of last night when we were coming home from church. It was a downpour. There were rocks washed out onto the road and water running over the road in many places. The maintenance along the road is not good (polite way of saying horrible). Most culverts are filled with debris so in any rain storm half the water runs through the culvert and the other half runs over the road. The local Maasai will like the rain because if helps the grass grow and the water holding ponds were filling up. The ponds being full make it easy to water the livestock and the women don’t have to haul the water from long distances.
So the other excitement was at church. I had no idea how needy the people were here. On fellow had the building burn down that he lived in, another fellow was locked out of his apartment (he has two children), and another fellow came in and told me his rent was late. It is amazing how little people have here and how little it takes to live on. The fellow locked out of his apartment needed 7,500 shillings (about $95). That is enough for three months rent! So by the time I left church, I felt like the dog that caught the car; going down the street at 60 mph getting thumped on the road every time the tire went around. I’ll need to talk to the former branch president so see how to handle the requests. I was told that welfare was the most challenging aspect of the job but had no idea it would be that challenging. I have the Sacrament meetings all arranged for the month so that part is easy. There are some priesthood advancements also which will be enjoyable. One young man who just joined the church late last year is going to be interviewed to be advanced to be an Elder. He will graduate later this year with a degree in biomedical science and wants to go on a mission once he graduates. A very bright young man and excited about life and the church. Those will be the highlights of the job.
The return plans for Debi and I have changed (well at least Debi’s have). She will be coming home this week (one week early). Krista thinks she is going to have a baby early and Debi doesn’t want to miss this one. So she leaves here on Thursday and arrives in LA on Friday. Margaret is traveling at the same time so she will be in SLC on Friday also. Not sure when she gets back to IF. I’ll let Margaret update those that “need to know”. I return on April 28th. For the Peterson kids; would like to bless Paula Taylora Fullerton (I picked out the name; not sure her Mom and Dad have bought into it yet. I like it a lot though) on May 1st. Drive the see Cherry/Cody and crew later in the week (Cody graduates on the 7th of May). We would then drive back to SLC and fly from there to Seattle to see Mya/Kermit and the boyz on the way back to Kenya. We will stop over either in Amsterdam, Paris, or Dublin on the way back and see some sights. Don’t have all the dates figured out yet, so will fill in the gaps later.
I’ve babbled enough already, love you all.
Paul/dad
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