a week of stories part 4

David Thursday November 4,2009
Today we spent the first half of the day in town. As we were about to leave, a street girl was begging us for shoes and other things, and a street boy of around 20, saw this and got very angry with the girl for persisting even when we had said no. The street boy started grabbing the girl and shoving her face down into the ground, I yelled at him and told him to get lost. He went away, but he must have told his friend. So his friend comes over with a big stick and starts threating the same girl, Candice to the rescue jumps out of the car to save her and then it dawns on her she is just as likely to be struck with the stick too. Seeing this I run over and shove the man away and tell him to beat it, but Dane wasn’t finished with him yet. Dane yells for him to come over, and lays it down for this young man that if he ever harms that girl again, then he would be very angry. The boy apologized and the girl forgave him with a Kenyan handshake. The rest of the day we spent at Mercy home. When I got home, I finally gave George the Bible I had bought him, and we sat there reading it for some time.