Greetings my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ! I am doing great and still adjusting well to African culture. It has been 2 weeks that I was able to post anything. Sorry to those whom I have kept waiting. I have been traveling to Lira where my team and I spent 1 week. Lira was ok. We spent time with Austrailians who also happen to be in Lira, but working through a different program. They dealt with trama from the tribal wars a few years back. The girls and I were able to do our program at 3 different school all of which are not Lutheran schools. One of them was Muslum funded which asked us to return and please send Bibles. Most of the staff and children were Christian though. Anyway, we were able to see each school twice. This was great because the second day the kids are so much more energetic and looking forward to our return. We normally only see the school once, so this was a blessing. The girls and I learned much about African culture while traveling and being in Lira. It has made us stronger missionaries, but to say the least, we learned from our mistakes. We then traveled to Masindi. The three of us agreed that Masindi was our favorite place to visit so far. The town was decent and the school were the best we encountered. Our translater Dennis was wonderful as well, especially when we had to change our plans because we planned a trip to a safari which was very close to Masindi. As always, I wish to go into great detail about everything I have expreienced, but I don’t have the time. Lord willing, you will hear all of the small stories when I return. Let me talk a little more about my time at the safari. Wow, wow, wow. If you ever happen to be in Africa, don’t pass up a safari. We saw 2 lions, tons of garaffi, buffalo, beautiful birds, elephants, hippos, and the lists goes on. We did not get to see all of the big 5, but well worth it. We spent the moring on a game ride and the afternoon/evening on a boat ride. All guided of course. I think my favorite was the boat ride where we saw many animals come to get water. I also really enjoyed the walk by Murchison Falls. It is not by any means the same size of Niagra Falls, but still breath taking. Some small highlights before I go: traveling to Lira, I was in the back of a small pick up truck with 2 women, 5 men, lugage, a bag of coal, and 6 goats. We got stuck in the mud 5 times, ran out of gas, and broke down. We finally got to our final destination on bota’s (motorcycles). This is all too typical of African transport. I haven’t gotten sick. I been to the market where I think I have mastered bartering. Courtney, Brenda and I have become as close as sisters and take care of each other really well. We know what the other needs sometimes before we know it ourselves. I received a pet name from natives in Masindi because they treated us like family (most Africans do). Akiki is my pet name which means one who brings people together. And the last highlight is that I scared a little native boy because he was following us while walking to Pastor Jake’s house in Kampala. Many little kids follow us every where because we are white. This one time I was a little frustrated (I think becuase I was hungry and just plain tired be being called Mzungu, white person), so I decided to get rid of him and said BOO really loud. I think he almost peed his pants and ran off. The neighbor kids and adults laughed at him. Where will I be traveling to next you ask? We are traveling to the west on Sunday where we will spend 3 days, 4 nights working with children as well as young girls. We have not had the opportunity to work in a small group with youth, so we are looking forward to it. Then we will travel back to Kampala on the 1st and we are not sure where we will go after that. This place which has yet to be determined will be our last village to visit in Uganda. Can you believe that? The girls and I plan to travel to Kenya the last few days we are in Africa to do our program for the last time and to just plain see Kenya since we are so close. Courtney has friends that live there, so we will be well taken care of. I hope to be able to get back to write yet another blog in one week when we return from the west. Keep praying for the people here in Uganda and all the wonderful children we encounter through our program.
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Supreme court has agreed to weigh
useful reference the constitutionality of a 13-year-old arizona program offering tax credits for donations made to organizations that provide scholarships for children to attend private schools
dale 10:36 pm on June 30, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Ha ha… Too funny!