Updates From Kenya.

Hello Friends and Family.

Before I get into the deep stuff I’ll tell you a good story. Last weekend I met Wilfred. He lives on the other side of the road and kind of works for Tumaini. He invited me to eat dinner with him and I had a BLAST. By far the best night of my trip so far. So I went into his kitchen (wood shack about the size of your bathroom) and he had a fire on the dirt floor cooking a Kenyan dish. As soon as I opened the door the smoke poured out. It was like he was hot boxin. (Mom that’s when people smoke inside of a small area so they get really high). I was like “Wooooow lets leave the door open” and he said “noooo too cold outside” so I stepped into the smoke filled kitchen and for some reason the next thing I know I was laughing and having a great time. He is SOOO funny. He told me about how he is living here and sending money back to his family. He went on to tell me house much he loved Michael Jackson. I had to break the bad news about Michael passing away. Then we talked about how he wanted to be a preacher and make all of Kenya into Christians. He has one of those laughs that just makes you laugh. When I stumbled out of the kitchen on my way to bed he said “Hey I’d really like it if you could find a way to bring down your Michael Jackson music so we can just listen” That’s my plan for this weekend.

Lets see…. A few more quick updates… No one believes me that Dogs come in the houses in America, David ran over a dog, Wilfred told me the cat couldn’t come in the Kitchen cause it would “SH**” in the corner, I tried to sneak up behind some girls tonight and fell in a hole full of mud, David watches Jerry Springer all the time, and the kids all make fun of Michael Welsh’s walk.

Well this last week has been very interesting. It all started on Monday. I ate a banana for breakfast and then at about 10 I took some porridge with the kids. The porridge actually isn’t that bad. It tastes a lot like Malt-O-Meal which is what we had a lot growing up. But about an hour after I drank it I started feeling sick. And it got worse…. And worse. I’m just starting to feel better now (Fri Night). I’m not sure if the porridge made me sick or something else but until Monday I was pretty much eating w/e they gave me and drank water straight from the tap. Part of the reason is cause FREAKIN Travis Robinson, who stayed here for a month in July, is a Mountain Man. Everyone always says “Travis used to do it” or “Travis drank the tap water” Tough shoes to fill. I’ve given up on that. Now I’m boiling water and am to scared to drink Porridge or Milk. The milk comes from the cows nipple in the morning and then is boiled and served….Not my usual Non-Fat.

Here’s a story that was horrible at the time but funny now. On Tuesday I had to go with a couple people to the store (about an hour and a half away) to pick out some groceries. When we were done shopping we pulled up to this butchery. I was already about to puke because of the roads. And I’m like “What are we pickin up here?” and they said “No, this is whats for lunch”. It was horrible. Two skinned cows and 3 skinned sheep hanging from hooks in the window. I didn’t eat but they ordered something in Swahili and the butcher went over and cut off part of the Cow (which by the way had flies ALL OVER it) and slapped it on the grill. This was my second day of sickness. I told everyone I’d go to the clinic if I didn’t get better by today but I’m feeling better.

But yes its been a difficult week. A couple nights I’ve been up till 2AM. While I was hurting in Bed I was praying a lot, and thinking a lot. You see so far these 2 weeks have been… hard. The hardest part is how much I miss home. And by home I mean being able to call a friend late and night just to talk, and walking through town and seeing 15 people I know, and being a 5 minute drive from getting a Six Pack of Corona, AND Jammin with my friends. I’ve always known deep inside that I’m a homebody. But I’ve always been attracted to adventure and old school living. But I’m starting to realize by being out here that I can have adventure ANYWHERE. Everyone keeps asking me “is this something you can see yourself doing full time in the future” and I usually say “Maybe if I brought a family with me.” So last night I was also up till 2AM but this time is was because I was wrestling with a decision. And today I decided on an answer… I’m coming home early. I’m cutting my trip short. COP OUT I know. It’s just at first I thought Swaziland would be a good stepping stone to Kenya because Swaziland is a lot further advanced. But it ended up being the other way around. In Swaziland at least I had a little contact with my home town. I could Skype my Bro’s, or E-mail my mom, or even chat with friends. But here I got NONE of that. This was a very hard decision for me to make because people donated to this trip and I said “I’ll be here till I run out of money.” Now two weeks into my supposed to be 5 months is Kenya I’m depressed and alone. I just can’t handle 5 months here. I’m sorry. I even thought about making up a lie. Something like “OMG someone mugged me and I had just taken out $1000 from my bank account”, but I need to be honest. That’s about how much I’ll have left. I am going to put it into an account for my, hopeful, trip next year with my bro’s. If anybody wants any money refunded that they donated I might be able to work that out. So I’ve decided I’m going to come home in December. Yes Alissa…December!! You called it. I figure what better time to be home with family and friends than Christmas.

So I’m not sure what else to say. It looks like I have about 2 months here and then a couple weeks in Swaziland then Home SWEEEEET Home.

You guys are amazing. Pray for the rest of my time here.

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Kenya At Last.

Hey. I should have written a post saying I arrived safe but I forgot sorry.

I Got Here Safe!!! So far its been…interesting. At first they put me in a house down the road. A scary, dark, cold, lonely house. I guess usually they have room in the boys dorm for the guests but they have some kids whose parents are paying for them to stay here. So David asked me if I wanted to stay in the extra room in his house. Thank the Lord. Also there is a girl who is in charge of my meals. I can either eat what she makes me down in the lonely house. Or I can eat with the kids if I eat what they eat. Which sometimes is OK, but sometimes is different. I also ate with David and Kezzia once. They put a plate in front of me that seemed to have about 30 tiny fish mixed with Gravy. Whole fish. Head, Eyes, Scales… all that good stuff. I said it was good but I think they knew I was lying because I gagged a couple times.

Plus they feed me more food in one meal then I eat in a day. Although everyone who can get food eats a lot. Even the kids have a HUGE pile of food on their plate. And you have to get used to being called fat. When they make me eat a lot I used to say “Your gonna make me fat!!” Untill I heard “your already fat” a few times. Its ok. I think I’ll drop some LB’s from being here.

Today was my first day of REAL work. We had to walk to a garden and harvest some oats. I didn’t realize the garden was going to be MILES from Tumaini. I forgot water AND sunscreen. I’m hurting bad right now. Sun burned AND sore. It was cool though cause we had to carry these HUGE bundles of Oats from all over the farm to the corner where the truck could pick them up. And after the first bundle I was DYING. I’m so out of shape. So I was praying “Ok God you have got to help me out here…I cant do this all day” Then I seemed to be fine. Sounds cheesy I know but I never rested and prayed for about 5 minutes then for the whole day I didn’t get as tired as I was on the first bundle. God is Good.

I’m seriously praying about taking an adventure into the bush of Kenya. More info later.

Also I’m sorry to say I wont be able to update my blog as much as I used to. I have to pay David by the minute so I just have to write my blog on Word and then copy and past it online. Don’t forget to check every weekend.

Wow 5 Months. It’s not going to be easy. Pray for me Please.

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In Transit To Kenya.

Hey everyone.

I just boarded the plane from Manzini, Swaziland to JoBurg, South Africa. Aahhhhh sick!! Some sticky thing just fell from the ceiling onto my leg. Gotta love this small plane. This flight is about 35 minutes so we pretty much take off then land. Then I have about an hour in JoeBurg and I will be on the way to Kenya. One thing I forgot to mention was I didn’t buy any Malaria pills, Or Travelers insurance. I figured I could stay longer that way. My friend paid $800 for 3 months of travelers insurance!

Ok this next thing is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever attempted. I’m giving up coffee. I KNOW!!! And yes I AM crazy. I at least wanna go a couple months. I’m sick of relying on it. Its like I cant wake up in the morning without it. So I left my Coffee Press at Shirley’s. She miss’s me already I can tell.

Mmmm Chicken or Tuna sandwich? After the mysterious sticky thing I’m not that hungry. I cant wait to see how much has been done at Canaan when I get back.

One more thing in the works. I talked to my bro Austin and he really wants to come to Africa next year!! How amazing would it be for all four of the Way bro’s to be on a missions trip?!? So I started looking at funds and seeing about just staying here till July and flying home with them. Didn’t look promising. The flight home was REALLLY expensive. So I have a flight coming back to Swaziland in Feb. I was thinking about heading home soon thereafter and putting my left over cash into an account for the trip in July. Austin has such a big place in his heart for kids and I KNOW spending time with the kids here would be a HUGE blessing on both sides. It would only be a few hundred that I would be able to put towards next year but its better than nothing. Since I’m just getting home I’m not sure who is going to be willing to donate again. Its like “HEY I’m HOME!!! Now give me more money to leave again!” But WOW I cant tell you how amazing it would be to step foot on African soil with ALL of the Way Boys. That’s the selfish side of me speakin.

Did I ever tell you about when I got kicked in the jaw at a church function? Now when I blow my nose air comes out of my right ear. And when I fly on planes my right ear never has to pop. BUT on long flights it KILLLS when I land. I wonder if there will be planes in heaven? With pools inside.

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P.S. I just got to the JoBurg airport and found out they now have Vanilla Latte’s…..Maybe ONE MORE coffee… :-)

Wellll what a day.

I just got back from hanging out with Joshua all day. It's kinda hard to explain but this planting of Corn is going to save there home. The home that Joshua wants to move into someday isn't being occupied right now. Its the house he grew up in and when his parents split up his mom went to live with her father and his dad moved in with his new wife. So the house was just sitting there. And the community was trying to sell the property and split the money. BUT NOW!!! Since they are planting there Joshua's brother agreed to stay at the home and take care of the harvest!!! It didn't click till today but Joshua called me a few weeks back saying "Please pray for my home. They are trying to sell it!" HOLY COW! We thought we were just buying them some seed and it turns out we were saving Joshua's house from being SOLD! I LOVE how God asks us to do something little and once we agree to do it He's like "OK NOW you'll see what I REALLY wanted to do all along"

So we started out by going to the "abandoned" house and planting the Tree's. Two Orange and Two Mango. Though I didn't get to plow (thank the Lord!!) and plant Corn I got to put tree's in the ground and get a picture of Joshua next to it.


Next we got to meet his two brothers in town and I was able to buy them all Lunch. Later I found out that one of his brothers had walked miles into town to try to get his cell phone fixed. (yeah they all have them here). But he didn't have any money for food or any money to pay for his cell phone. He didn't even ask for me to buy him lunch even though he hadn't eaten all day.


After lunch we went to Joshua's Mothers home and I got to give her the cash left over from donations. After buying 10KG's of Top Dressing and 15KG's of Fertilizer and 1KG of Seed I had about 500 Rand left over. So I gave it to her along with a Letter and Picture from her Spiritual Sponsor Family AND a picture of the church that agreed to pray for them. She was so happy and immediately grabbed my hands and started praying. Giving thanks to God for everyone who helped. THEN guess what she prayed for?!?! OUR PROSPERITY!!! I was blown away. I don't even want to get started but in my head I was thinking "does she even KNOW how blessed we are with 'stuff' already?"


So we finished the day off by going to New Hope Centre and hangin with the kids. Those kids are amazing. It was hard to say goodbye. Although the fact that I will be back in Feb. helps. Fact. Hmmmm. Interesting words. What's a "Fact" anyways? "A truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true" Say's Dictionary.Com. So if that's the case there is nothing Factual about the Future. I like the way that sounds.

Well Tomorrow is Church. Then packing so I can FLY to Kenya!!! I'll probably update up the plane or at JoeBurg airport. I know that place WAY to well now.

And how and I finishing my day? A Skype with my Bro Austin Way. I cant tell you how happy I am for my brother Austin. I hope he doesn't care that I mentioning this. He is SO on fire for God right now and its settin me on fire as well. This is a guy who used to use ANY excuse in the book not to come to FLOOD with me. I would call him and be like "Hey what are you doing tonight?" and he'd say "Nothin planned" and I'd say "Wanna FLOOD it up?!" and he'd say "ahhhh ohhhh mannn I totally forgot I gotta do some homework" hahah RIIIIIGHT!! Anyways this same guy is going to FLOOD EVERY week now and he loves it. I thank God for what he's doing in Austins life. I also thank God for Nelson. If it wasn't for Nelson, Austin would pretty much be flyin solo right now.

hah Look at this picture I found of when Kayla cut my Dredz off.

Signing out from a great day.

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Sorry So Long!

Hey guys.

Sorry I know Its been a long time. Our Internet has been Gone for a few days. But maybe you should get used to it. I'm not REALLY sure what Internet will be like at Tumaini in Kenya.

First of all thank you so much for your words of encouragement about Anton. After the first day of straight depression I woke up the next day a little better. Then the next day God gave me an amazing peace about the whole thing. You guys helped a lot. And not to mention my Mom's comment about putting Anton in the Peace Garden gave me the biggest smile ever. I LOVE my Mom. Honestly Mom. I know I didn't get to participate in your 50th (yeah she's old huh?) But I want you to know that the Love you show, EVERYONE you come across, is the closest thing I've seen to God.

WOW some girl has a really annoying laugh. And she's sitting right behind me. And I'm pretty sure she's drunk. Bless Her Heat. A lady I met from Hawaii told me that I can say any gossip I want about any person I wont as long as I follow my comment with "Bless His/Her Heart" hah

Ok another Update. GOTTA WEB SITE!!! Oh yeah. I'm pretty pumped. Its EASY!!! Spread the word. Although right now its pretty basic. www.CoryWayMusic.com Spread the word. Take some Spray paint and put it all over man made stuff. Not Tree's. Not Cliff's. But a house is ok. You might be wondering about a Log Cabin.... Yeah that's OK. (Sorry Mom)

So It turns out Orbitz.com isn't being Very nice to me. They are saying that to change my return flight from Oct. to April they would charge me 1700. OUCH. So I found a whole new ticket for about 1,000 dollars. And a good friend of mine from Atlanta is going to pay for it! I Love nice people. (Although she's not nice enough to move me up to First Class!)

I'm full of Smart Ass(tric) comments tonight.

One last thing. KENYA NEEDS PRAYER! I'm not sure if you've heard anything on the News but Kenya hasn't had rain in a LONG time. And the stuff we planted NEEEED the water.
CLICK HERE to read more. Lets join in prayer. We KNOW God can do this. Huh Melba? :-) We prayed for rain in Swaziland and woke up to. Amazing God we serve.

Well that's it for now. I got to Kenya in 3 days!! OH YEAH. I got all the Corn AND fertilizer AND Top Dressing for Joshua's family and on Saturday I'm picking him up then picking up 2 Mango Trees and 2 Orange trees and going to his house to plant!! I'm soo pumped. thank you all for the donations and I will put pictures up Saturday night.

The Picture is from Kenya. its Joseph and Joseph who recently lived on the streets with Isaac and I will be staying at Tumaini with them!

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Morning of Mourning

I woke up this morning and went to check my e-mail. One of my friends told me that another friend Anton Viktor Jungenberg had committed suicide. Here are my thoughts.


Why? Why couldn't I have done anything. Why did he do it? Why wasn't anyone with him yesterday? Who gave him the sleeping pills. Who was the last to see him?

I didn't know Anton as well as I would have liked to. I remember him in youth group in high school and I remember hanging out with him at the Coffee shop a few times. We would watch funny video's online or look at his latest artwork. I really loved him. I have maybe said some bad things about a lot of people but not once about Anton. He had an amazing heart. He seemed to try very hard to make others laugh and be happy. He always made me laugh. I never put him down or made fun of him or laughed AT him. But there's also one other thing I never did. Care. I might have acted like it. I might have asked him questions about his future and been sincerely interested but if I really cared about Anton I would have hung out with him more. I would have invited him to my house. I would have gone to visit him in San Diego after he went to college. But I didn't. I was to caught up in MY life.

The thing that hurts the most is that I really did like Anton. It wasn't like it would have been a burden to hang out with him its just deep inside of me there is a selfish being that doesn't do stuff if it doesn't benefit himself. Anton WAS loved. He might not have felt loved but he was. People might not of known they loved him but now they do. Regret is all around. I can feel it. From across the world I feel the Fallbrook air is quiet and still and dark.

When I heard the news this morning I went into my room and prayed... or tried. Mostly stared at the ceiling thinking. Thinking about stuff like what I could have done to stop this. I later found out that in the world someone commits suicide every 40 Seconds. Who else was sitting in their bed starring at the ceiling? I thought about how sad God must be. Every time one of his children give up.

I don't know if me being on the other side of the world makes this easier or harder to handle. I hate this feeling. This feeling that doesn't have a word. I hate when I get this way because I usually pretend like everything is OK. But everything isn't OK. And there comes a time when you can be selfish. And the selfish side of me says "NO I'm not OK! and I DON'T want to talk about it!"

Where are you Anton? I will never see your face again. Not on earth anyway. Pictures are lifeless... fleshless. And now so are you. I'd do anything to have yesterday back. To write you a note about how important you are. How much I enjoyed the laughs we had. How amazing your art was. But its to late.

Anton had posted a series of comments on Facebook before he passed. They were angry. They were REAL. Stuff like "F*** THIS S***! I LIVE FOR THE THINGS THAT LEAVE ME HOLLOW!" Anton was usually a soft spoken person. But not yesterday. He continued to post comments. That was his first one at 2:47 AM. And his last was at 2:59 AM it said "Anton Viktor Jungenbert is finally going to be free. Lets find out if there really is a hell!" Anton was a Christian and I truly believe he had a relationship with God. I pray that he is looking down on us now. If so he MUST KNOW now that he was loved.

I LOVE AND MISS YOU ANTON. AND I'M SORRY.

Sunday.

Hello,

So today was church. We went to the Potter's Wheel, which always has great worship AND a great message. Not as good as Flood. But nothing really is. I miss that church. Potter's Wheel is the church that had the Blind guy that I made fun of.

So anyways the guy in charge of building on the Canaan land is Marcus Gama. He also pastors a church and asked us to come to it today. So we rushed their after out first service. It was WAY different than the Potter's Wheel. We pretty much went from a HUGE church to a little tiny shack of a church. Here are a couple pictures.












Well I dont have much to share. Wayne and Nancy are going to Kruger park in South Africa so it looks like I will be layin low for the next little while.

OH YEAH. Update on Joshua. I am going to buy stuff with him on Saturday. We have enough money to buy 4 fruit tree's, all the seed they need, and fertilizer. I can't wait. I also have a Church who sent me a picture of their congregation who has committed to pray for them AND a family who has sent me a letter and a Family picture to bring them. They are going to be SOOO excited. I will post pictures as they come.

Thats it for now.

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Gooood Mornin. (or Goodnight for most of you)

Well today we are Headin over to New Hope Centre where Joshua works. Wayne's Company wants to get a child from one of the Children's homes to draw a picture of what they think Christmas looks like. Then the company will pick one picture, with the child's picture, print a card, and send it to their thousands of employees. So Today we get to go bring the kids drawing supplies and help them. I've grown very close to the kids at New Hope.

I might have to say bye for a little while today. And Emmanuel. And El Shiddai. Man its like every time I come they are so happy to see me and me the same. Its hard cause when you come for a week they know when your leaving. But this time they dont know when I'm leaving. It will be a sad goodbye whenever it happens.

One thing I've been thinking I'll need prayer for is FOOOOOD at Tumaini. It will be the first time I am AT the home LIVING with the children. I will eat what they eat. Which isnt the greatest. And also I'm pretty picky so I might have to change that. Well I go to Kenya in 10 days...AND COUNTING.

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Update.

Wow. So before I came to Africa I called around to find the best/cheapest way to buy a plane ticket if I wasnt sure about the address. When I talked to a rep at Orbitz.com he told me "The best way is to book a ticket with an estimated return date and pay the 300 to change the return flight" So I call last night to change Oct. 27th return flight and they say "Sorry Mr. Way It looks like your ticket is non-changeable, non-transferable, non-refundable, and non-anythingable" Turns out the guy lied to me. SO after staying up till 2AM talking to the supervisor she agreed to call the airline and try to get them to pull some strings. SO as of now I have no return flight home. EXCITING!

Ok so sorry to do this but I found a better way to keep track of my FanMail. Please Use the box at the top to join my music mailing list.

FYI Spellcheck doesnt work. I do it every time and I still get all of you complaining about my bad spelling! hah

Joshua called me today and I told him how I told his story on line and he started to cry over the phone. So did I. He is going to talk to his family tonight about what they want us to buy. I would LOVE to buy some fruit trees and plant them on the property. Dont worry pictures will be taken. Also I still need a family to Spiritually Sponsor them! Any takers?

We got to take food to Emmanuel today and I got to see My Girl. Good day. Here's a pic.


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