Pictures of my life

           

First picture in Kenya

before I even knew the boys and if we are 100% honest at this point I didn't even know if I liked them yet.

The boys favorite thing to do is throw up peace signs.

I love this song, 'father Abraham he had 7 sons, 7 sons had father Abraham.'

This is all the boys ever want to do is 'read book, kaleigh!'

Our plug and table that we cook on

 My super cute sunburn I got the 3rd day I was here (it was cloudy/over cast the first 2 days)

..this one is for you mom, my new colored lens I got for Christmas

 Bernard cutting the grass with this like shoe horn looking thing, that I fail at. (colored lens)

Another colored lens..and i love this picture

I just really like this picture for some reason

Papa-this kid is FOR REALS THE funniest little person I have ever meet in my life. He kills me every time and has such an attitude with the way he talks, i love it.

The boys really know how to dance and do it all the time.

A SUPER nasty picture but the older boys whom  I never even talked to wanted a picture with me before they went to school.

Teaching the younger boys hand clapping games.

 Baboo cutting hair for the older boys before they go to school, the next boy was crying I guess it hurts getting your head shaved?

I love these 3, the one on the right is a boy that lives on sight..like in a house on the center, the center rents out there extra houses that the staff does not use.

Meet Zachariah he is in the process of being adopted which breaks my poor little heart. He is just SO great. I love him he is so hilarious.

The girls that went to school with the boys, there was one more who did not want to be photographed...the one in the orange jacket is Michale, Harrison, and Peters older sister.

Legitimately he is my favorite, when I just said see ya like next week it killed me. Maybe a little tearage might have come from my eyes too. He asked me like 8 times to go with the girls to take him to school, but I just couldn't get myself to do it, and the girls were not coming back for a week.

This cute girl we gave one of the back packs my aunt made to her and she was SO excited about the stickers, she is just so cute.

 This is where I have spent my last 5 days sitting next to this boy with Megan, handing him tissue when ever he needs to go to the bathroom.

Hey Africa

                                                                               
OH it is lovely here, thank you for asking. For reals though there are not a ton of spiders and bugs, I thought it would have been something like camping with them all over the place but it is not. There is bats that live in the roof though, tonight I was walking back from the dinning hall and 2 bats flew in front of me and for reals scared me half to death and so I ran to the water where a boy was getting a drink and I told him LOOK there is a BAT! and then some dude came up and talked to me. hahaha poor kid I have no idea who he even was..he was probably thinking crazy muzungu. (which means white person)
So right now legit half of the boys or sick or act like they are sick. It is the saddest thing ever I just want to hold the boys so they know everything will be okay. I feel so helpless. When I first got here one of the boys named Abram was like constantly attacking me and by my side all the time and if he wasn't and I walked by him I would receive a nice punch to my arm and running around like a crazy with all the other boys. But today was totally different. I walked by him today and put my hand out to shake his (which I do to all the boys) and he just looked at me like he was about to cry which is so unlike him.
Later I was clipping Buddies nails because one of his nails broke and Abram was laying on the sink right behind me and after I was done I went up to him and asked him if he was okay and if he was sick but all he said was no. So I would point to the different areas of his body like his head, stomach, and throat asking if it hurt and all he said was No. So to me he was okay just having a bad day. So the I just sat by him rubbing his back and telling him a story that I know he would never understand. Eventually he crawled down and layed on the cement in the sun. (when the boys are tired they just pop down ANYWHERE and fall asleep.) Once all the boys left I went to the other side where he was cuz he was sitting on the counter by then and I asked him how he was doing and he just looked at me and I said, 'it looks like someone needs a hug' and I hugged him and when I let go he was bawling. Oh my goodness this kid could have killed me. It was the saddest thing EVER. You know I am a sucker for tears and when I see some who is sick or in pain that is usually fine it kills me even more. He just looked like a weeping willow then another boy came up and said that the on site nurse was asking for him and he needed to go to her. So I gave him another hug and sent him on his way.
I hope he is good by tomorrow. I have to have someone to hang out with because my 3 main squeezes are leaving me for school tomorrow. And Megan had the guts to break it to me that one of my favorites is in the process of being adopted...which also kills me. I have been thinking about it all day long, that these boys are like brothers and all they have is each other and they stick up for each other like crazy if one is being picked on. So if I was in this situation would I want to be taken away from my brothers to have a stable life or remain in the center where all of my brothers are. To me it is a very hard question and I have no idea what the answer would be.

Some shenanigans

               

I am going to be IN Africa in 10 days. I leave in 9 days to get there. I will miss a lot of things and I already am missing some of them! This is what I have been up to the last week.

1. Hanging out with my tortoise, Oliver

2. Crazzy nights with my frineds

3. Dinner making with the whole family

4. Watching my sisters fight with Emmanuel, it is the funniest thing ever.

5. Hannah playing me the ukulele and our 5 am talks

6. Jams with Jesse, Bryan, and Hana

7. Being Missionaries and doing missionary work

8. Picking this little one up from school. She is a BALL of energy!

9. I watch these kids every day...I know some days were rough but we went out strong, they thought me so much, they just tickle my heart fancy.

10. Conner, Monday mornings will not be the same with out going on walks with this little one and letting him barf on me.

11. Jeremy and Joshua even though I still have a hard time telling the difference between them to I SO enjoy going to the park with and them telling me I get a 9/10 on a fun scale. 

12. Brother and Sister Ferguson they are the best thing that could happen to senior missionaries

13. Pretending I am in love with this man. He is my husband number 4.

14. My Grandparents

15. Hanging with SOANA

16. Hana Doss-Johnson this girl gots my back. ALWAYS

17.  Institute and Making new friends

18. Taking 6 new pictures of this kid every week. (he is husband number 2)

19. Being with all of my family

Africa

11 days and counting. My handy dandy computer has a count down on it for Africa. I cannot even imagine being in a different country in less then 2 weeks. There has been a few things on my list to do before I head out of the country. Like get my passport, get all of my shots, get and take my medications, and go to the dentist for the first time in 2 and a half years. I got blessed with Maori teeth, aka they are more inclined to get cavities. (naturally weak as some may say) I came out of the appointment with only 5 cavities. I know RIGHT? Be so proud of me.   The dentist did tell me that for someone who has not been in for such a long time my teeth are doing real well and that I have very good hygiene. OH my I was SO excited to hear that little piece of news. I have an appointment for Tuesday to get all my teeth fixed and filled. Then I will be all physically prepaired for Africa. But the mentally prepared hand I think that's a different story. 

My HOT date with Taleah!

     

Tonight my little sister Taleah and I went on a hot date. Really we just drove behind my dad going to find a Christmas tree and she asked if her could come with me. We had SO much fun together, lets be honest. On our way to the second store of the night because the first had for reals about 25 trees at it and they looked like poop, we headed our way over to the wonderful Home Depo. For some reason this little one was just so excited she got to ride with me and in the front seat too. (shh don't tell the cops) We turned on the radio and guess who was on? The BLESSED Selena Gomez. Man this girl LOVES her Selena. So we sang to the rest of I love you like a love song, which wasn't very long. Then the OH so Popular Miss Adele came on, and you bet you, Taleah and I were singing together as loud as we could to that blessed daughter of God...even though her songs are WAY too over played. It was a fantastic night and I will miss her craziness when I head out to Africa.

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Halloween Weekend

        

 So my family ward had a chili cook off. That was the day of the walk-a-thon for my sisters school and my mom was pooped, so I got to make the chili! Here is what i got from it.

That is right. I got second place out of 11 chilies. The elders judged the chili. (all 4 of the elders, the single adult elders and the home ward elders.) I was talking to Elder Miller about it, he is so funny, he told me that it was really close between my chili and chili number 9 (who won). He also said that some of the Chilies were so nasty he gagged just eating one bite of them. haha

After the chili cook off I made it to one of the 3 halloween parties I had planed for the weekend. 

To enter this party, you had to go through a spooky alley and I screamed. It was so fun I love it.

 On Sunday after church 8 of us headed up to the temple for the afternoon. I love this place. It is just so wonderful! While we were there we ran into Olivia.

 HALLOWEEN Erina and Taleah went trick-or-treating with my pops when Soana and I hit up another party.

 At the party they had pie eating contest. No hands allowed. Ian is so funny, his is him drinking his water like a dog. They used the BIG costco pies. I have no idea who ended up winning. It made me sick just to watch.

I also went to a dance, but we didn't take any pictures there. But the dance was SO MUCH FUN! I loved this halloween it was the best one I have yet to have!