White Wash

This is Elder Harris (US) and Elder Gedamu , both these Elder's were transferred from the same companionship, they call this a white wash.  They were replaced by Elder Kakaire and Elder Feleke.  We will miss Elder Harris and Elder Gedamu.  We took them to lunch before we took them to the bus station.   We are getting to know the new Elder's and appreciate them also.  It doesn't take long to learn to love them as well. 

Utah Family

This is Jason and Natalie Fareborne from Utah that are here on Business. They will be staying around 5 yrs if the business works. They have been here before and they selected to attend the Bamburi Branch and will be a great asset to that branch. They invited Elder Marbel (US) and Elder Gwebo and us for dinner one sunday afternoon. They have an African house keeper that lives with them that they bring to church and is interested in the gospel. She is a true believer of the bible but wanted to know why the Book of Mormon. Elder Gwebo explained about the book being another testament of Jesus Christ. They set up more appointments to teach her.

Safety

Hello family and friends we are fine.There is always a threat for our safety but it is no different than around the rest of the world. We hear that a man was arrested in S.L.C who planned on going to city creek mall in S.L.C and shooting as many people as he could. Then going to a near by theater and shooting as many as he could there. So as you can see there is evil all around see all that goes on in the world . So much evil but there is also much good and righteousness in the world we see it every day here both ways but righteousness will prevail. you can see we are in the last days. So now is the time for us to prepare ourselves. So while there is much to stress over . There is much to rejoice over. Keep hope alive in you . We pray for all of you every day we love and miss you. Elder and Sister Palmer [Mom and Dad Grandpa Grandma Friend]

Westgate Mall

This is a senior couple that were at the westgate mall in Nairobi at the time of the attack.  We are fine but due to Kenya being close to Somali, there is always a terrorist threat to Kenya because they don't support the terrorists.  We are not in anymore danger than we would be in a US city.    Love Elder & Sister Palmer

Pictures at the Westgate Mall taken 9/21/2013 and put on BBC (we did not know) and the other is of Ryan and Amanda who were with us before they had to catch their plane back to the US (it was put on yahoo). Ryan is running on the left and Amanda is behind him in the dark pants. They ran to a corner in the Mall opposite to where we were and got out before us and we did not know where they were. They stopped a man in a car and ask him to take them to State House and he did and they got back to the apartment. We waited about 2 hours looking for them, and then we were called and told they were safe so we caught a cab to the apartment. Our truck is still in the top parking lot at the Mall. We were inside on the floor of a cafe for about an hour or hour and ½ with the shooting going on before we got out. We are OK.                                                 

                              

Red

Our Granddaughter Allison took this picture of our dog red.

Our Anniversary

New Church Site

The church has purchased this area of land and building to build a new church on. It will be wonderful to have this completed. The building they have now has no parking, which most walk anyway but is so small. This branch has a chance to grow when this is completed.