I cant really get my email to work so I guess the next best thing to do with my time is to write a blog. The internet in Busia = your 1994 dial-up connection, just slower. So Im learning patience.
Our new team is going very well and we all seem to get along/encourage each other well. We have been doing door to door visits to peoples homes and sharing the gospel that way. I feel a bit like a salesman; maybe not a salesman, but an advertisement of the gospel, which I guess is one of the things Jesus asks us to be, a light in the darkness, a witness, a testimony. Its really not bad though I sort-of enjoy it. There seems to be the same problem here that there is in America when it comes to Christianity, and that is religion. Allot of people will tell you they are Christians and some will tell you they are born again but they really dont mean it. They either think they are, and are not, or they just want you to go away. So when people tell you that, its sort of hard to get around it and show people that they really need relationship. But we have also met some sincere believers who we have sat with and encouraged and tossed around ideas and questions, though when it comes these conversations I find myself more encouraged and excited than maybe the other people do. We met a couple, Godfrey and Unis, both believers, newly weds of 2 months. We sat with them for over and hour. Godfrey had a ton of questions. We did our best to answer them and encourage their new marriage.
Im enjoying Busia, the food is far better than I expected. We have an in house chef (mostly because if we didnt we would eat nothing but sandwiches. kitchens opperate in a much different way here. things change when 80% of the time you have no electricity) Lukas, a husband and father of 2. This man is at our house before anyone wakes up, we do our own lunch, then he comes back doesnt leave till much after dinner. He has more joy and humility than I could ever hope for. The man has the Holy Spirit and no one can argue that.
