Life in Lukodi… you would think that squatty potties, hammocks, thunderstorms, peeing children, pooping children, sick children, sick girls, mud huts, rice and beans, instant coffee, roosters, chickens, goats, ducks, cows, rats, acid spewing beetles, poisonous caterpillars, spiders, lizards, toads, diarrhea, stomach aches, bucket showers, leaky huts, no electricity, hand washing, and spiritual warfare would become less endearing overtime… but It hasn’t! I love it here, except for the diarrhea, sick people, warfare and rice and beans. I have refused to eat the rice and beans for the last ohh… twelve days. I’ve replaced it with candy bars that I purchase on Mondays in Gulu, and when I say purchase I mean CLEAN OUT the stores! Hello ten pounds! Just kidding but seriously.
ots of fun stuff with them on the weekends-some activities including the children. It’s always interesting to see how much African women can do with a child attached to them breastfeeding- one incident included them trying to do human knot where you extend both hands out in front of you, it was a lot of laughter.Just try to picture that one! The girls love to laugh at us (we laugh at ourselves too)
we often try to put things on our heads or even carry these jerry cans of water that weigh about 45 pounds-it’s quite difficult.
We’ve gotten immune to seeing little boys and girls with no pants on, boys wearing skirts or pink- they also like their nails painted. And sometimes it takes almost the whole month to find out the little boy you’ve been loving on, is actually a girl J.
This is my favorite part- we watched a movie with the children and with the girls but it was one of my favorite parts of the race to see the children’s faces light up when we put The Lion King on during the day care. They all start chanting and rooting for the characters and getting excited during the initial credits. They can’t even understand the words but they don’t care at all, they sit mesmerized. It brought the biggest smile to my face seeing them love this movie. It was such a gift from the Lord to be able to sit with them and watch a movie. I love movies.
The disciples and Jesus never stayed anywhere too long. They ministered and they moved on, they did not stick around to see if what they said made sense, or if it took root. They had faith that the Lord would use what they do.
James 2: 26-As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
