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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Krazy Kampala and Krocs


This past week has literally blown by. Here in Kampala, most of the roads are dirt so when mini taxi buses come storming by we get a mouthful of red dust!  We don’t mind however since it is all a part of the cultural experience, but we are indeed grateful for our cue tips and pumice stone (for our feet)!  There is a lot of walking involved and there aren’t really any sidewalks so whenever we walk by the roadside we have learned to keep very still because traffic passes by us about a foot away. Let’s see, something that happened this past week: we got to see Lake Victoria and close by we visited a crocodile farm! Apparently they have a few farms in order to sell them for meat and skins. The guy caught a croc for us and we held it!! It was fantastic, probably even better than eating crocodile later. It was kinda chewy…


All in all, our week was great! We worked hard setting up our project and are realizing that things don’t always work out as fast as you would like. There is definitely a “Uganda time” here and it is not uncommon to have an appointment or meeting set that gets delayed haha. However, for the branch that we attend for church, the meeting starts spot on. We are very impressed! Oh, so we are getting to know the couple missionaries very well (there are a lot of them). Apparently this mission encompasses Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. Missionaries can’t go into Sudan and in Rwanda the government is just on the verge of recognizing our church so missionaries will be sent soon, yay! The church is strong here in Uganda and the missionaries are baptizing around 50 members a year in our branch. There is one stake, a couple wards and a couple branches.  Well that’s all for now, hope everyone is doing well stateside, Lots of Love!

2 comments:

  1. Way to hold the croc. Jordy! Keenan says, "that isn't very big!" Until I told him that it could still snap some fingers off!!! Love the smiles on those Ugandan children! Love you!

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