Day 4 through the eyes of Brooke Troutt

So today when we were going to mud the church I was rather unsure about the whole thing, everyone was on edge about parasites in the mud and getting our new clean shoes drenched in mud. However, when we arrived there were a bunch of adorable Kenyan children singing and dancing, praising the Lord. That in itself was touching. These people only have small little mud huts and different mixed matched clothing yet everyone is still fantastically excited and just overwhelmed with joy that we, Americans, came to mud a church for a poor Kenyan community. When they began to make the mud some boys automatically took off their shoes and started squishing the mud with their feet and getting it all in between their toes! Danika and I looked at eachother and instantly took off our shoes and joined in. I did not have the intention of getting 100% covered in mud but then the mud battles began (and it was a BLAST!). Smearing mud on each others faces and in our hair and down our backs and all over our clothing was a very great way for us, as team members, to fellowship with each other and just have fun and do work for the Lord in an amazing, unique way.

It was a really enjoyable experience to help these people who don't have much. They were just over joyed with our help and they sang to us with such passion and love for the Lord. After we worked putting the final coat of mud on the church we all went in and sat down for a short service. The children sang and danced for us again and they announced that we helped them purchase some more land. It was awesome sitting in a church that we helped to build that will be a place of worship for greatful, humble, joyful, beautiful Kenyan people.