Praise God! (Bwona Asifiwe) I am feeling better. I spent Monday afternoon in bed for about 4 hours just resting. My entire body was aching and my stomach felt so wierd. But I am better now. Please continue to pray for Rosie and Sarah, as both are still recovering from this, whatever it is. I feel like our team is under a bit of spiritual attack with all this sickness and another recent theft last night. Randall was having his first matatu experience last night (he's been renting a car for the rest of the week). We had just left the little stop and were sort of sitting in a traffic jam. And someone comes up, opens the window, grabs his phone, and takes off. Anna-Lise then slammed the window shut again. The whole thing happened so fast that no one really knew what to think. it's the first time I've seen anyway reach into the car. I think it was a good wake up call for me b/c i've let my guard down a bit. Peter sent out Milham and Alex to some shops that might try to resell the phone to look for it, but I doubt there will be much success. It's stupid though b/c the phone is american and is password protected, so no one can even use it. we spent some time praying about this issue of stealing last night. we usually pray together every night as a group, and it was so necessary b/c i think randall's wife was really unhappy with him. but the thing is, you can try to be careful, but it happens and you can't do much about it. pray for protection for us and our stuff.

In happier news I went to see a movie yesterday--The Last Night, the one with Heath Ledger. seriously, it's no wonder he killed himself after filming this b/c his character is so totally freaky and he just instantly plays this part. I can't say I was a big fan, but the fact is that it only cost about $5 to watch a movie and have popcorn, a hotdog, and soda...much cheaper than the states. and in random news, someone just came up to me in the street today as he was passing and said, "you have a nice butt." only he used the other word. jane says that this isn't really offensive here...what the heck?

patrick left today--very sad, but we are now joined by stewart, originally from south africa...aren't we diverse! it was a bit crazy last night b/c apparently peter had no idea he was coming when other people went to get him from the airport and supposedly sarah had already made this arrangement with the family. so peter and amie were talking in swahili, really upset about the whole thing. but they seemed okay about it when he got here. i felt bad for the guy b/c i'm sure it's not his fault really. i also understand that they're not running a hostel...just lots of miscommunication; so typical of here. in any case, he'll only be here a short time before going with a group to climb kilimanjaro. so i guess it's not too big of a deal. i'm going with a group of them to climb mt. longmount on saturday.

i've been at new life today holding babies and yesterday going with melody to therapy. anna-lise is studying physical therapy, so it was good being there with her b/c she knows a lot of things to do with melody to help her improve. things are a little slow right now here b/c school isn't in session so our schedule has changed a bit.