Month One: Top Moments

Top moments of Uganda 

1. In the van leaving at the end of the first month, seeing the girls and children crying, smiling, and running next to the van as we pulled away. We left after a beautiful sunrise, feeling that we had built relationships with these girls that I cannot ever forget. 

2. The morning chapel/bible study in the mornings and worship at night filled with singing and dancing. Teaching bible study for the first time, finally learning how to pray out loud, learning how to use a translator — and explain one sentence a bunch of different ways. 

3. Learning how to braid in weave, buying weave, getting weave…Really just anything and everything including the weave (weave heads). 

4. The awkward first ride together as a team to Gulu…where everyone was afraid to speak up to say they were cold and to roll up the window. So we all froze. 

5. Walking into “TOWN” to get a soda and to go to the market and slipping into a big pile of mud. Getting covered. Having one of the staff members Concie help me clean myself up at the well.(I didn’t get any on my clothes!) Oh, might I add that this was when EVERYONE was watching. 

6. Rafting the Nile River…with weave in…praise the Lord for XL helmets.

7. The picture perfect sunsets, sunrises, the clearest and best stars I have ever seen, seeing storms roll in miles away but never getting any rain, sunshine. 

8. Filling up Richards hut with all of our empty water bottles and boxes as a prank.

9. Learning how to garden with just a ho and seeds.

10. Walking 1/4 of a mile to get water at the well, 1/4 of a mile back to the hut…drenched in water. Carrying water on our heads getting laughed at by the girls.(Getting laughed at was a normal thing, especially when we used a wheelbarrow to carry jugs of water).  

11. Seeing God in the people of northern Uganda — with their joy, seeing his healing hand at work in each girls life, seeing God in the little kids and each mother, feeling God and his love, being surrounded by the bush. 

Learning the key to loving, serving and bringing kingdom is through building relationships. Simply- just live life with people and love them the way Jesus would.