Busy, busy, busy

Hello all! Well today is a Sunday and I'm posting today instead of tomorrow like I usually would because I'm looking at a very busy week ahead of me. However I will give an update about the last couple weeks first.
Well the week after I last posted was pretty normal. Did all the routine things and as far as I can recall there was nothing special that happened. However, this past week was quite busy. I believe I mentioned at the beginning that Catherine and I did orientation with three other girls, two from the UK and one from Australia. Well, they were here for three months and left this past Thursday and Friday. So the busyness started on Tuesday when we went over to their neighbourhood where quite a few AIM long-term missionaries live in the city and had lunch with a couple from the States that we've gotten to know here and we went out for coffee with the three girls. In between we were at a mall and picked up lots of things for the VBS that we're having next week.
Then on Friday we were supposed to go extend our visas because they would technically end this weekend, and we didn't want to be in the country illegally. However, we got a call Wednesday morning that we needed to do it that day or Monday, which wouldn't have worked. So we got our things together and arranged for a taxi and went to get our visas done. This also provided for us another opportunity on the way back to stop in another store and pick up more things that we didn't get the day before for our VBS.
Thursday Catherine went to the closing of the school that she's been working at the past few weeks in the morning and I went with Pastor and Sylvia to see the doctor that Sylvia went to about trying to have a baby. The doctor is a woman from Scotland and she had really come alongside the Mutangili's to help them. They had been mistreated by other doctors and had a really hard time for about ten years of trying. They really saw this doctor as a blessing from God and the baby has the name Judi-Hannah, and Judi came from this doctor. She had been back in Scotland for a while, and not around when the baby was born, but still making sure they were being taken care of, so this was the first time that she had seen the baby. It was a nice time because it just was another way to see that this baby is loved by so many people.
That evening the whole family went out to dinner at a restaurant called Carnivore. The whole premise of this restaurant is that when a person comes in for a meal for between $35-40 (depending on the drink ordered) they get a three-course meal with soup, entree, and dessert. The entree is basically all-you-can-eat meat. They bring out a potato and there are some small sides, but the meat is the main part. Each table has a little flag and while your flag is up the carvers will continue to bring the table meat on spits. There was beef, turkey, and lamb that a slice would just be cut off onto the plate, then there were pre-cut pieces of chicken, chicken wings, and chicken gizards (the only thing I didn't try), spare ribs, pre-cut pieces of crocodile, and ostrich meatballs. It was all very well cooked and all tasted so good. I would recommend it for anyone who comes to Nairobi and Johannesburg because I saw that there was one there as well.
So those were three very busy days because it was all that plus the pastoral prayer meeting on Tuesday morning and the two Bible studies Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. However, next week seems like it will be even busier. For our last full week here we're doing a VBS. Catherine is running most of it, but it's still going to make for a busy time for us both. From tomorrow until Friday 8:30am-12:30pm we will be doing this VBS. Along with all the other things that we do in the evenings. Please pray for our ministry this week for the kids at this VBS, and also sometimes in higher-stress situations Catherine and I have had the bad habit of stepping on each other's toes sometimes so pray that we'll be okay this week so that we can end things off well.
Please keep praying for the things that we routinely do because we'll be getting into our last times to do these things this week and next, so hopefully things will end off well. One other big prayer request I have is for AIM in Nairobi and for the AIM-air sector of it. AIM-air is a small fleet of airplanes that AIM has and they mostly (I think) run out of Wilson Airport in Nairobi, not the bigger airport that we flew into, but another one. Anyway yesterday one of the AIM-air planes went down and the pilot, who was an AIM missionary and whose name I don't know, was killed in this accident. The co-pilot is still in hospital, but the passengers are all okay. The missionary pilot left behind his wife and four kids. So please be praying for the other AIM missionaries here in Nairobi and for the wife and children of this man and for the rest of his family wherever they may be.
Well thank-you for your continued support and prayers, and thanks for reading.
Kwa Heri,
Steph