Wow! I’m in Uganda! Wow! I don’t know what to say about that….
That means I’m in the last country of the Race. I’m happy and sad about that. I’m sad that life as I know it will soon change and I’m going to miss all my friends. I’m happy that I finally get to go back to the US and my family.
Being in Uganda has been very nice. We are staying at a lodge with 2 other teams. So there are 21 of us Racers here and we all do ministry together. We are working with an organization that helps the community. They provide jobs for many locals, have a school, have a clinic, have a vocational school, provide humanitarian aid and they do some others things like farming and raising animals so that this compound can be self-sustaining. We are here to work alongside them and George, our host. We have a good routine going.
7:30am – Breakfast
8:30am – 1:00pm Ministry
1:00pm – Lunch
2:00pm – 5:00pm Ministry
6:00pm Dinner
We do this everyday, Monday – Thursday.
Our rest day and adventure day is Saturday and Sunday.
Since it is the last month of the Race, we are given an extra day of processing which is Friday. This day is specifically to process and work through this past year. It’s very needed and I’m very thankful for it. However, processing is very tiring.
The ministry we’ve been doing is mostly manual labor. We cleaned out and organized a big warehouse and 3 other smaller storage rooms. I love organizing and so I got to do this for 3 days. It was so fun for me.
Some of our team goes to a school everyday to teach.
Some people worked on digging up some posts and moving them and then building a shed in their place and some worked on fixing fences.
Then we went out into the community for a day to encourage the people. We went to see how people lived in this town and to pray for them. There was a doctor here from the UK, Tayo, who went with us and he saw some people and gave them medical advice. We also visited an older lady and helped her pull peanuts off the plants. What would’ve taken her 7 hours took us about 1 hour. We also visited a bar and one of our team mates shared the gospel with the men there. There was another man with us from the UK, Shay, and he talked to one of the young men there and tried to encourage him to connect with our host, George, so that maybe he could attend their vocational school and learn some skills and have a better future. My heart broke when I saw this young man speaking with Shay. He was so young and gentle and I could see on his face that he was just looking for something, looking for some hope.
I’ve loved being here and all that we are doing. I’m trying to take it all in and enjoy it because I know that it will soon be over and I’m going to miss it.
Our host said that he will take us on a safari soon so I’m very excited to tell you how that was.
I’m doing good overall, just tired. We have some very physical work days and I’m not very used to that anymore so I’m thankful for the time off we have to rest.
(I tried to post some pictures on here but I don’t have strong enough internet for that. I’ll try to post pictures in the comments of this blog post on Facebook. Hopefully that works.)
