A day with the Masai

On Monday our team took a trip to a nearby Masai village. Our purpose in spending the day with them was to just learn from them, especially about what they do during pregnancy and childbirth. We shared a lot of laughs when it came to awkward conversations about husbands and wives meeting together, the positions that they deliver in, and various other topics. And despite our translator being a young single male, he did well in translating without too much deviation of what was really stated by our team or the Masai women. However, we all wished at various times that the men present would go for a bush walk so we could REALLY talk to the women :) They were extremely open and I am really impressed with how much they were willing to share with us. It was an amazing opportunity for and we were all really blessed by what they taught us.

I spent most of that day holding one of the babies in the village. If I wasn't holding her, I was trying to steal her away from momma or whoever else had her. She was so precious. Smiles, slobber, and a whole lot of cuteness. Nothing better than kisses from a baby.

All in all the day was pretty spectacular. We are praying about more opportunities like this until we can get into the hospitals.

We are still waiting for our workers visas. Until approval we are continuing to seek out new opportunities and ways of serving the local villages. We are working on our Community Profile project almost daily which has often proved itself to be difficult, but it has also been very rewarding to be able to learn so much about the communities we are surrounded by. There is a lot of interviewing that we are doing to find out how we can best serve the local people and bring positive change in their ways of nutrition and basic health. It will hopefully be helpful for future teams who come as well.