I took down (or I should say, Mark took down) the mosquito net over our bed today. I don’t know when it was cleaned last but it was smelling dusty and I was waking up rather stuffed up so I thought it was time to clean it. Also, I'd been waiting until we had water in the tank. I handwashed it and hung it on the clothesline. The water sure was dirty! It was a nice sunny morning so it dried quickly and Mark hung it back up for me. It smells and looks so much better! This is the first place we've lived in Africa with mosquito nets, although we probably should have put them up in Nairobi. We don't see too many mosquitos but enough to make sleeping under a net more comfortable - unless the mosquitos joins us under the net! That is annoying.

After our language lesson this afternoon, Mark went to a meeting at FATER. Actually he left our lesson early, just as it was starting to rain so he got a bit wet I think. There was a representative from Compassion International who was speaking at the college about children. He said that the biggest obstacle that Compassion has found when trying to aid children is pastors! They find that pastors often have no strong interest in helping children because they don’t tithe and they make noise and are distracting during church. So, Compassion is going to Bible Schools throughout Africa to talk to pastors-in-training to try to change this trend. Hopefully these pastors will see the need for investing in the children. They are the ones who can change the culture of the nation from one of mistrust and hate and prejudice to one with Christian values.