Jan 23 – Good Morning from Kenya
9AM – Monday Jan 23: Good morning to you all. I just got aboard the flight to Kisumu from Nairobi. It will be a short 50 minute flight. From there I will meet with Rev. David Kodia (and others I’m sure) for the first time. They have a number of things planned for me to do today.
It’s a beautiful day out today. Sunny and warm, and not to hot, at least this morning in Nairobi. I’m NOT missing the weather back in Connecticut, which I understand is cold and rainy. I can understand why many westerners escape to African locations in the mid winter. I sure is a whole different continent.
I was happy yesterday to make the acquaintance of a driver here in Nairobi named Peter. He drove me from the airport to the hotel and did the reverse this morning. He is going to meet me when I get back to Nairobi on Thursday. Since I have a very late flight out to Dubai on Friday, he is going to pick me up in the late morning on Friday and give me a tour of the Nairobi area. I’m sure it will be interesting.
Something else worked out well yesterday. In the early evening at the hotel, I discovered that the shower water was cold in my room. I notified the front desk and they did their best to get the problem fixed, but it got pretty late in the evening, after dinner and the water was still cold. I braved a cold shower and went to bed. I was pretty tired from all the travel at that point. 
This morning, when I went to check out, the hotel manager spoke with me and apologized for the problem. I let him know that I was not upset and understood that things happen that we can’t always control. He let me know that on my return to the hotel on Thursday that he would make sure I have a good room and then let me know that they would extend my check out time on Friday to 7 PM since I have a late flight that evening. Wow! That was worth the minor inconvenience. As I often say when in Tanzani “Mungu ni mwema” which means “God is good”. He really is. I will admit that I was feeling annoyed at first on Sunday evening about the water situation (not at the people who really were trying their best), but I thought about it and once again realized that I was not in control of this journey. It was the Lord who brought me here in the first place. I understood then that everything was as it needed to be, including a cold shower.
Evening – Jan 23 – Come back later. I will post after dinner.
