Today was our last morning in Nairobi. We would be leaving Little Sisters' soon to begin the debriefing portion of the GP in Mombasa, which is located on the eastern coast of Kenya. Before we left Nairobi, we visited the AIM (I think it means African Inland Missions but don't quote me on that) Hangar where we learned more about missions in Africa (obviously). More specifically, we got to learn more about missions in more isolated regions of Africa. We got to see some of the small aircraft that missionaries take to get to the middle of no where. There are a lot of logistics required to send missionaries all over central Africa and we got to meet some of the people working in the hangar to make all the missions possible. I even met a guy who graduated from UCSD who came to Kenya with his family to help serve.
It's time like this when I really think about whether I could ever be a full-fledged missionary. During some moments (like during a missions trip or an IV conference for college seniors), I really think that I could do full time ministry and even possibly become a missionary one day. On most other days, I just want to live the standard American life, serve at a church, and otherwise just live pretty comfortably. Part of me realizes that it's worthwhile to live life completely for God while the other just wants to...well, do what I want. Anyway, I've gone on enough of a tangent, but when all is said and done, I've just got to live faithfully in the little things. Hopefully, when the big decisions come around, I will have put myself in a place to make the wisest decision.
We later arrived at Nairobi Railway Station, because as it turned out, we were going to be taking a train to Mombasa! My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think that we were originally supposed to leave around 7 PM and that it would take about 15 hours to get to Mombasa. Anyway, as fate would have it, the train arrived decently on time, but an accident occurred somewhere else on the railroad track. So by the time this day ended, we were still at the Nairobi station, either sitting around in our compartment or taking walks along the station. In fact, the train still hadn't moved by the time I fell asleep in my compartment.
The AIM hangar
Inside the hangar
Dylan and I finding ways to kill time
Nairobi Railway Station
The Hogwarts Express
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