Friday, July 15, 2016

Houston the Team Has Bonded - Word From Uganda

15 July 2016

Greetings from Iganga, Uganda.  What a day full of happy memories! 16 years ago my husband and I began courting, 15 years ago we arrived at our destination wedding location, one year ago our team hiked up "Pride Rock" to watch the sunrise here in Uganda and today many memories are being added to this special day. Let me share some of these…
We reek of deet!
A team member who will remain nameless went to take her shower without a towel and had to dry off with underwear. 
AAAAHHH IT'S A BAT!
I am the keeper of the internet, 
if you build it they will come, kind of corny, I know,
5-6 turkeys tied to the back of a taxi-ALIVE,
Phil Wickham AKA Fear Will Come, 
and last but certainly not least, tomorrow we are going to a village named Idududi, go ahead and say it aloud…HA! HA! HA! You said DOO-DEE! (Please forgive the immaturity)! 
As you can tell our team has bonded! 

Moving on to something a bit more profound, as we traveled to a choir competition today,  Paul Nakalanga shared a question the children from a village asked a crowd. (BTW, the village was celebrating a brand new water well, the first clean water they've ever had). Why is water colorless? We answered with "so God can see His beautiful creations swimming in the oceans, because He already used all the blue in the sky." Paul graciously let us get tired of guessing before he told us the answer. The children of  the village told the crowd that it was colorless because it looks like God. WOW! Powerful, huh? 

We arrived at the choir competition on time, 10:00 am. Thankfully there are always kids around to play with because the competition didn't start until 12:30. Every year the schools perform tribal poetry, singing, dancing encompassing a theme which was "Education leads to development and the future of the nation." All the kids were phenomenal and every delivery of this message was powerful! There is a generation of change ahead for Uganda! This gives me chills!!!

We stayed until 2:00, returned to Musana, dropped off a few friends and reloaded the van to head to Jinja. Our fearless leader, Sue, thought ahead and decided if we didn't go to Jinja today we might not have any other time for shopping. Tonight as we reflected on the day, everyone agreed that the day was just what was needed. 

In His Love,
Julie


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