Dec. 28 – Elute Farm Prison

 Ministry Partners,

Today was a late start since we do not have to be at the prison until 2 and it was only twenty minutes away.

Breakfast was ok with scrambled eggs, potatoes, crescent rolls and tea. There was also a good looking cooked spinach with onion dish but because I discovered that my tummy did not like the spinach here I have learned not to eat it although I like it, it is similar to Swiss chard.  

There is a mechanic under our van checking it out.

It seems like a reoccurring story but after breakfast, the guys had to take off to have the undercarriage of the van checked because of a very loud “bang” noise that was heard while driving the other day. They tried to check it out themselves but found nothing. Alfred said the mechanic said that the bad roads have affected the springs.

I generally do not take naps but today I took about a 40 min. nap before we left for the small farm prison. We arrived and were greeted by the O.C. who had the prisoners ready. We could hear the loud singing and drum playing when we arrived and one inmate was playing a large Adungu. The inmates were seated in front of me under a small metal roof canopy while others were alongside a long building to my right, others were seated alongside the building to my left and even more prisoners were seated a ways in front of me under a small tree.

They went through 3 translators before finding one that would work and even he had trouble following me so Aaron first translated into Swahili and then the second translator translated into Luo. Because of having to do two translations from my English, it took much longer and because we could see that their dinner was waiting to be served we only did the Salvation and Forgiveness messages today but the prisoners responded to both.  

I was very happy we were close to the hotel and we were able to have dinner giving me time to finish this blog and get to bed at a decent hour. Today’s blog is short but with this heat these three musketeers are all a bit weary tonight.

We appreciate your continuing prayers. 

That none would be lost,

Arlene