I have been thinking that Tuesday would be my last day of work all week. We just discovered a miscommunication and now I don't work Tuesday. All of the sudden I feel like I'm really about to leave the country! I have so much to do! I feel so unprepared. Haha :-) its a wonderful feeling! Sounds crazy I know but feeling unprepared and rushed makes me realize that I'm leaving in 5 days!!!!! So soon! Last monday when the first team left I fell into an AWFUL funk. After some much needed time in the word and a reminder of God's sovereignty and faithfulness the funk left. Praise God! It wasn't fun. So now I'm on the downhill slope! Going very fast! Praise Him! I have to make sure I have everything. THEN I have to make sure it all fits! This is going to be quite the challenge since people keep asking me to bring something for them, or take something to their child. BUT, I will find a way :-) please pray with me this week! Pray for safety and for God to move in Mbale/Namatala in mighty ways! One of my prayers has been, and still is, that the alcohol problem would be taken away from that village completely. Pray for that with me this week? Thanks! I also hope you will pray with me for our medical clinics, gardens, and the new water well coming soon! Most important of all let's pray for SALVATION in Namatala and Mbale! Let's pray that the Holy Spirit would fall in that place and that every person would come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior!!!!!
I can't wait to be here telling you about what our God is doing in Uganda! 5 days :-D Praise Him!
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
A week and a half!
I just got a picture of Teko Brian from Becky!!!!! He is the most handsome little man I have ever seen. Seriously. It made my heart SO happy to see him in his school uniform smiling, and know that I will be with him soon! I have really been struggling with being here lately. It's not that I don't love my friends and family, I really really do! But I have just been anxious. It's as if the enemy is trying to tell me I'll never get there. But I have news for him...I'm going to get there!!! Jesus is all in this trip and I am SO excited to see what he has in store for us! I have a week and a half left here to love people well before I go and that's exactly what I plan to do :-) The enemy is already defeated, he just doesn't know it yet. Amen!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Packing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! / 17 days
I'M PACKING FOR UGANDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so close! I'm so excited!!!!! I can't believe it's actually that time again!
In some aspects this is going to still be a very new experience for me. I have no clue what it is like to return to people who know and love you (although I have heard it's AMAZING.) I don't know what my reunion with Teko Brian will be like, or how I will react when we step off the plane, or even what I am going to want to do first! (Thankfully that part isn't really up to me!) So this will still be rather new to me! All I know for sure is that I am bursting with excitemement and coming apart at the seams thinking about how soon I will be there! Only 17 days until I go back to Uganda and I am SO excited!!! However, I would be lying if I said it isn't bittersweet.
Aimee (the cutest almost 5 year old in the WHOLE WORLD) will be turning 5 without me this year. This is probably the hardest part of leaving this summer. My baby girl is turning 5! It's a big deal! I so wish I could snap my fingers and be here for her party. I am really hoping to skype in for a few minutes to at least tell her happy birthday and remind her that I love her. Aimee, if you ever read this, Lala loves you SOOOOOOO much. To infinity and beyond and back! (haha I win!)
Leaving my baby sister for 6 weeks is also one of the hard things about leaving for so long. Leaving my whole family is going to be hard but there is something extra hard about leaving my baby sister. (ok she is 15...not a baby anymore...but still) My mom and I are extremely close and I will miss her to pieces but I know that I can skype her and she is going to be ok. I know I can skype with my little sister as well but she is 15! You grow and change and go through so much when you're 15 and I hate missing even one second of it! I love and CHERISH our late night talks when she comes into my room just to tell me about a boy, or about something that happened at school, or just to say hi! I can't help but feel like I'm going to come home and she is going to be so different. Still beautiful and wonderful but different. She is going on a mission trip to Costa Rica while I'm gone and I wish I could be here to scratch her back or play with her hair while she tells me all about the things she sees and does. Thank the Lord for technology. Skype will have to do.
My friends. I SOOOOOOOOOO wish they could come with me!!! I just want to pack up everyone I love and take them with me. They would love Uganda! Or at least I like to think they would. :-) Again, I'm so thankful for technology and skype, but 6 weeks is a long time to go without my besties! Luckily, I have some amazing besties and I know that we will talk and I know that they will be here when I get home!
In some aspects this is going to still be a very new experience for me. I have no clue what it is like to return to people who know and love you (although I have heard it's AMAZING.) I don't know what my reunion with Teko Brian will be like, or how I will react when we step off the plane, or even what I am going to want to do first! (Thankfully that part isn't really up to me!) So this will still be rather new to me! All I know for sure is that I am bursting with excitemement and coming apart at the seams thinking about how soon I will be there! Only 17 days until I go back to Uganda and I am SO excited!!! However, I would be lying if I said it isn't bittersweet.
Aimee (the cutest almost 5 year old in the WHOLE WORLD) will be turning 5 without me this year. This is probably the hardest part of leaving this summer. My baby girl is turning 5! It's a big deal! I so wish I could snap my fingers and be here for her party. I am really hoping to skype in for a few minutes to at least tell her happy birthday and remind her that I love her. Aimee, if you ever read this, Lala loves you SOOOOOOO much. To infinity and beyond and back! (haha I win!)
Leaving my baby sister for 6 weeks is also one of the hard things about leaving for so long. Leaving my whole family is going to be hard but there is something extra hard about leaving my baby sister. (ok she is 15...not a baby anymore...but still) My mom and I are extremely close and I will miss her to pieces but I know that I can skype her and she is going to be ok. I know I can skype with my little sister as well but she is 15! You grow and change and go through so much when you're 15 and I hate missing even one second of it! I love and CHERISH our late night talks when she comes into my room just to tell me about a boy, or about something that happened at school, or just to say hi! I can't help but feel like I'm going to come home and she is going to be so different. Still beautiful and wonderful but different. She is going on a mission trip to Costa Rica while I'm gone and I wish I could be here to scratch her back or play with her hair while she tells me all about the things she sees and does. Thank the Lord for technology. Skype will have to do.
My friends. I SOOOOOOOOOO wish they could come with me!!! I just want to pack up everyone I love and take them with me. They would love Uganda! Or at least I like to think they would. :-) Again, I'm so thankful for technology and skype, but 6 weeks is a long time to go without my besties! Luckily, I have some amazing besties and I know that we will talk and I know that they will be here when I get home!
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Random post Uganda posts :-)
These are some re-post worthy pictures and comments! It's not much...Becky Ball made fun of me for my flashback to last years trip and how whiney I sounded about having to go to the gamepark ;-) hahaha I just did NOT want to be there at the time. Looking back now, I am SO glad we went. It was a great experience. Thanks Becky :-)
I don’t know these kids. They were with us in Namatala but we didnt get to know them very well. It doesn’t matter if I spent the whole week playing with them, like I did some of them, or one day taking a few pictures with them, like I did with these kids, the unmistakable fingerprint of God is covering these children. I cannot look at them wihtout seeing our Fathers love. I cannot be with them without wanting to love them in a way that will point them to the cross. I thank God every day for giving me the opportunity to love these children.
So stinkin cute!!!!! In church on sunday I held him the whole time that he was in with the adults and when I would rub his arm he would rub mine and when we would dance he would dance. Lauri blew him kisses from the row in front of us and he blew her kisses back! haha it was so cute. Then we were sitting in the seat singing and he turned and looked at me then put his arm around me. It was so cute!!!!! haha Just like a little man :-) I seriously considered making room in my suit case for this one!
Papa Ted, you are so loved. Lauri, thanks for sharing your dad with so many of us. These kids absolutely adore Papa Ted. Papa Ted adores them too. It is so easy to see why :-)
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