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!
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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