BACK IN NAIROBI FOR A WEEK

I got the vehicle safely to Nairobi after the staff retreat at Archer's Post. It was a good week there together and we had a special surprise of getting into Samburu National Reserve 3 times for free as a group. Some of our staff have distant relatives in charge at the park! They were thrilled to see so much wildlife, especially elephants, giraffe and lions. Some even saw some animals they had never seen in their lives like wild dogs and water buck. The spiritual talks centered on having a personal spiritual retreat and how to have assurance of salvation. The in service speaker focused on financial management. Yolanda gave a talk to the nurses on how to come to a diagnosis with patients presenting with abdominal pain and the staff had a meeting to plan March activities. I went away this last weekend with Kathleen Lutz to Lake Naivasha area to Crater Lake Lodge. It was a beautiful get away and very peaceful. Enjoyed watching Kathleen see her first African animals on our game drive. Now I am busy getting shopping done in Nairobi for the dispensary and getting our newer pickup through the inspection process. I am staying at Cedar Road again for 3 nights with the Samburu family who live there now and are renting it from the ELCK. It is kind of fun to be there again. Of course they have oodles of relatives living with them and I am not really sure where they all slept at night as they gave me the bedroom at the top of the stairs on the left to myself. This is a family I know from Ngurunit - Joseph Learamo and his wife and 3 young children (plus all the others). Joseph worked with our dispensary for over a year and he now has a nice new government job with the African Union and heads up the disability program for several East African countries. His office is just in Westlands and his wife works for NHIF in Westlands as well so the location is perfect for them. They have chosen to attend Parklands Baptist Church just near Cedar Road and one of their sons is in Grade 1 at their new school there. Once he gets fully into his new job he hopes to bring help for the disabled in Samburu North District. I should be in Arsim over the weekend and then travel back to Nairobi to bring Yolanda out to return home the first part of March.