Well our 4th of July celebration was a success! I wore an American Flag shirt all around Jinja, we grilled hot dogs, Aunt Amy made the best sloppy joes and funfetti cake with chocolate ice cream was eaten for dessert! We even lit candles on the cake and sang the national anthem before blowing them out. Let me tell you, we sounded GOOD! Once I am able to post the video, I will. It will give you quite the laugh.
Thursday morning we took Baby Ben, Grace and Teddy to Buikwe Hospital to get their immunizations and HIV testing. Immunizations went well, only a few tears were shed! Grace didn’t shed a single tear though. Not even during HIV testing where they take your blood. She just confusingly stared at the doctor as he pricked her. Grace is such a calm, sweet baby. She always seems to be at peace. Caralina keeps joking that on August 2nd (the day I leave) they are going to have to keep a close watch on Grace because I probably am going to try to bring her home with me. Say a prayer for baby Teddy and Grace in hopes of negative results from the HIV tests.
Friday was the monthly prayer and fasting day! We started off in the morning with a worship session and prayer. The worship was awesome! The staff was dancing and yelling and just praising the Lord. It was such a great experience. Even though most of the songs were in their language, Luganda, it still just felt so awesome to worship one God all together. We then parted ways to go off to work. I sat in the clinic most of the morning charting in medical files. Then at 1 pm we joined again for a time of prayer. That too was also a great experience. To hear the staff pray in their language and to hear them cry out to Jesus, it was so humbling. Their hearts are set on fire for God. It just really is a great thing to see that no matter who you are, no matter what language you speak, you can worship the same God together. Every nation, every tongue, confessing to one God. AWESOME. It was also sports day for the kids so they traveled to the nearby village to play soccer and net ball. Then the Buikwe district (our district) selects different players from each school to make one district team. They continue to play other districts and eventually someone will go to nationals. Janie and I traveled in to Jinja that night for an evening at the Keep where we enjoyed some great American food including the most incredible milkshakes. It always helps to eat ice cream....always. (: They also had African Traditional Dancing going on at the Keep and that was very cool to watch. The culture here is truly incredible. There is never a boring moment. They have so much love for who they are and their culture. It really is fun to experience.
Yesterday (Saturday) morning was a GREAT morning. I slept 11 hours that night and didn’t get up from my bed till about 10:30. First time all summer! I woke up to the sun shining so brightly and it felt like a cool fall day here! It was great! We all relaxed on our veranda, had our coffee, did our quiet times and just enjoyed the slow pace of having nothing to do. We then joined the kids in a massive treasure hunt which lasted ALL DAY. Literally. After relaxing all day and doing pretty much nothing, Aunt Claudia invited the interns to a lovely dinner at the Black Lantern. We got in the car (all 10 kids and Claudia) and made our way to the Nile River. On the way we witnessed one truly beautiful and breath taking sunset. It was so bright and the sun was so orange. So pretty! We got there and enjoyed a long, but really delicious dinner and great fellowship. Meme and Bobby made me laugh all dinner. Meme says the funniest things and Bobby, well he is just Bobby. Always making some odd noise and smiling. He made a new friend at the restaurant and they stared at the “water pool” (pond) for a long time watching the frogs. Boys will be boys. Plus, Bobby is always surrounded by woman so he needed a little man to play with. I had the ribs and steak and a big ice cream for dessert! I slept great last night. Funny thing is, I thought I would lose weight coming here. Pretty sure I have just gained weight. The food never ceases to amaze me.
Then Sunday morning rolled around early today. I got up and got my lesson plan together for sunday school. I taught on Psalms 19:7-10. It is a Psalm by David telling us about the Word of God. He uses six different titles for the Word of God and gives reasoning to all they do. The kids really enjoyed the lesson and participated well today! We then played a hackie sack game that was really fun before taking a break. Big church was at 11 and Uncle Rob taught on 1 John chapter 3. Don’t believe everything you hear! It was a great message. Well do Uncle Rob! After church everyone went separate ways for lunch. One of my girls, Vero, got really sick this afternoon. She has a high fever and upset stomach. We treated her for Malaria so please keep her in your prayers and for a very quick recovery.
This week will be a busy one! We will be welcoming another missionary, Casia, later on tonight. She will be opening the babies home here at GSF and staying for a year! Pray for her transition and her time here at GSF. God is going to use her in great ways! We will also be welcoming Baby Leticia and her mom here soon. They will be staying in the baby house. Leticia is a baby girl who is nine months and weighs the under the average weight of a newborn. Pray for a healthy growth! We also will have a girl Ashley join us for a couple of days. She is from Winston Salem and visiting a family friend here in Africa for a few weeks. Tomorrow I will be traveling to Kampala with Mercy and Kenny. We will be seeing a doctor to try to figure out if there is something neurologically wrong that is causing them pain. Pray for our safe travels and patience tomorrow! It will be a long day.
I cannot believe I have three and a half weeks left. It has flown by way too fast! I ask for you to pray for me to rest in His peace and let Him work fully through me. I also ask that you pray for all of us interns as we prepare our hearts to leave in the upcoming weeks. That will be really tough. Otherwise, I will not be thinking about leaving and I will just enjoy every minute I can with the kids! I really love it here. Maybe one day my mom and I both can come back to GSF together!
In His love.
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