The last three days of last month, we
travelled to Jinja, Uganda to meet up with the rest of the squad. We
camped for two nights and just hung out and relaxed on the banks of
the Nile River. Some people went bungee jumping and white water
rafting, but I took advantage of that to spend time with people, eat
some good food, and rest before our long trek to Tanzania (and I’m
SO glad I did!). We began a long series of travel days on Friday
afternoon, when our bus arrived to pick us up 3 hours late. This is
Africa.
[beautiful Tanzania]
We have finally
arrived in Tanzania safely after nearly 50 hours of travelling by bus
on bumpy African roads. Our bus broke down on Saturday and we had to
stay the night in a bus stop/restaurant until another bus arrived to
take us the rest of the way to Dar es Salaam. Sleeping on buses and
filthy restaurant floors among 40+ people is not an easy task.
Needless to say, I didn’t sleep much for a few days. We got to Dar
around noon on Sunday and still had to find another bus to take us to
our ministry site in Morogoro, Tanzania about another 3 hours away.
But we made it!!
We met our contacts
and soon found out that we would only be spending about a week here
staying in a guest house, preaching in churches and doing
door-to-door evangelism before travelling to a few different mountain
villages to live in tents and minister to some African tribes. I’m
pretty excited about finally getting to experience “the bush� of
Africa for about two weeks. We will have no running water or
electricity (no internet access) during those two weeks. I will try
to get on at the end of the month before we head to India, but until
then please pray for us as we head into the unknown; and trust that
God is using us and protecting us wherever we are! I love you all!!
