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A trip to Kilungu With Pres. and Sister Brown 28 Mar 2001
The following is a short story written on my mission May 28, 1994, it describes the absolute beauty found in the mission, and gives credit to the saints who helped build the chapel located in Kilungu. I visited Kilungu only one time while I was on my mission, but it was enough to make a lasting impression. May 28, 1994: We had a really great opportunity today. We left here at 7:00 am with President and Sister Brown to go to Kilungu, to visit the saints there and show us how to get their so we can take [Pesident and Sister Clark.] On our way I got to see a lot of the country side. We left Nairobi as if we would go to the airport but then diverted our way using the route to Mombasa. The scenery [along the way] is a Savannah plain with mountains dotted here and there. Knee high grass, small trees about the size of human and bigger trees are scattered through out the grasslands. The plains gently roll along the way with a few hills here and there. As we began to get closer we could see mountains. We finally reached the turn off about 12 miles past a game park. As we passed through the game park I saw a few gazelles, two ostriches, and a bunch of other animals kind of like a deer only bigger, uglier and very sharp curly horns. [I believe this was my first encounter with a heartabeast or and eland.] The turn off point started out on the plains and then we neared a canyon leading into the terraced mountains scattered with several huts. We passed through dried up riverbed streams, which flourished with vegetation. A few pools of water in the riverbeds and in the road we were traveling on could be found. As I looked upon the ominous mountains in the foreground surrounded with gray clouds on top I marveled at the beauty of the land. We passed four villages before we reached the turn off point to start our ascension up the mountain from the bottom of the canyon. We followed a narrow dug-way most of the way up the mountainside until the road became even narrower. I couldn't help but think of home and remember the beautiful mountains there, it reminded me a lot of home especially as we took the dug-way I couldn't help but remember the dug-way going up to cedar hill. We reached the top - well the top where the road ends and where we meet the branch chapel, built on a dug out terrace that the saints dug with shovels and a wheel-barrel. The relief society carried the parts on their back from the bottom of the canyon to the site, which takes fifteen minutes by a four-wheel vehicle. The seen was absolutely gorgeous. The mountainside faced another mountain which was bordered by the bottom of the canyon and boarded by a small gradual uprising of hills and another valley in between the mountain we stood on and the mountain in front of us. On the way up we [laughed, asking], "How did we get a branch up here?" I feel it's the most beautiful place I've been to on my mission. The [church] service was great. We talked about self-reliance and marriage. President Brown gave a nice talk. For the first time in my life I had something besides bread for sacrament, it was a small biscuit or cracker, broken in two. On the way back we passed a different route ascending the mountain then climbing along the tops of the mountains. It was so picturesque. --Jeremy M. Bowen
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