Leister's Kenyan Life

Our Month started out with a Birthday Celebration for Nancy & Maggie! They are doing well, their mother's sidewalk business is doing well and she is mostly healthy! Horace & Phyllis got to have a great 35th Anniversary retreat in Kisumu with Josh,Rachel and Big Boy Tekoa! We really just relaxed, it was great! This is where Josh goes to school in Kisumu Kenya. In a few weeks Josh will complete his 2nd term and in Sept. 2010 will begin his 3rd and last term to complete his Medical Officer Training! Please have Josh,Rachel,Tekoa and new baby in your prayers for what the future holds! Our helper Malachi has been a great inside and out! Sad but true Malachi will be leaving Kenya on the 23rd of June, he will be missed! We are so excited we are with in a few weeks of house completion! All the tile is in and the appliances go in tomorrow, toilets,sinks,showers by the weekend!!! Kitchen! Boaz, is the youngest of our 6 new arrivals! Brighton! After just 2 weeks our Brighton who could...

Guess Who? It's Dannon, that's right! One of our helper's Peter found a nest on the ground. With two egg's in it, cool rite! As you can see Troy opened it up. sad right. OK enough about the egg's. As you can see Dema and I are very happy about the house. The men are doing a great job don't you think? I am sure my mom showed you the picture's of the Bathrooms. Troy & mine is the beautiful green one! Here is a pic of me and Troyanna. Troy is holding Boaz and I'am holding Judah. I never put Judah down, he is the cutest thing! He has big beautiful eyes! That's all for now folks! Habari,OK Iam sorry for tricking you about the spider but I just couldn't help myself. So we went to the hospital the other day, this is Boaz and I. Boaz is so little that his feet are not even three inches long and his fingers are so tiny they can,t even grab my thumb. And this is Debby dancing on the changing table. Isn't she adorable? Most of the nurses are very ni...

Hello to all our Family & Friends! God Bless you, from all of us at Tumaini Children's Center! We were able to begin visits at the hospital again and see all our old and new friends! We met some very beautiful children we are hoping to bring to Tumaini and give them a permenant home! Please pray! Joel! Titus! Troy & Dannon with the 2 small infants we met, Boaz & Judah! Matthew! Debbie! Malachi and Phebe! Mikey! Abby! BaBa ( Father or Dad in kiswahili) Horace with Brighton at the hospital! Horace poured the counter for the new kitchen last week and now the tiler's are moving from finishing of the baths to starting on the kitchen, yeah!!! It is getting done! These are are the tiles for the kitchen. The big green one is for the counters! Sorry I forgot to add the floor tile, it is a shade or 2 darker copper than the wall tile, it will be a beautiful kitchen, the kenyans are so excited! We have 5 baths in the new house and they are all tiled, Praise God! This is the g...

Habari! This is Troy. We are now trying a cook at our house, his name is George. George is very quiet the only words he says are "yes" and "OK" but I know we will be good friends just like Bea and I. Bea is our main helper in our house. OK, so I woke up this morning and look what was in my net? That's right, a big old spider, it was dark brown with black eyes and big old teeth or whatever those things are called, Mom said to stay still so it wouldn't move. I'm not going to tell you I was scared, OK,FINE, I was scared!!!!! If you want to see how scared I was click on the picture. By for now Troy P.S. The spider wasn't real Ha Ha! got ya Hello it's me, Dannon. Happy Mother's day to all Mother's. My mom got breakfast in her bedroom. Troy and I made breakfast for her and all the baby's made her a card. We have a visitor, his name is Malachi. All the kids love him, he is very funny. He is staying with us for two months. All the kids wake h...