Wow I'm finally in Uganda, it's been a
long 2 months in Mexico and I thought I would never get here. The ride
through Dubai was rediculous, I didn't sleep for over 50 hours because
of our 13 hour layover in Dubai and we decided to stay up all night to
go on a tour of Dubai. As much as I hate to admit it because I didn't
want to go on the tour, I'm glad we did because Dubai is beautiful.
They have a fully automatic metro system that goes underground and
above ground elevated above the roadways. Every single building it
seems like is shaped like something, an aircraft, a sailboat, a wave,
all down to the manmade islands that surround the coast. There they
have so many "two year projects" meaning everything they build they do
it in just two years and the stuff that they build is no small thing
either it is all massive over the top ridiculous architechture and
landscaping. The man who took us on the tour was pretty awesome, he
said he has lived there for 15 years and when he moved there it was all
mostly desert, and in 15 years it is probably more developed than
Houston is. My favorite thing about Dubai is the man-made islands, they
have one in the shape of a palm tree with 7 braches on either side and
an underwater road to get there, this piticular island is 14 K long and
7k long with Condos better than 5 star hotels that you can rent for 99
years for 400k each.

 

     Even tho Dubai was
pretty amazing I was not sad to leave. The plane ride to Uganda was 7
hours which seemed like nothing compared to the 14 hours from Houston
to Dubai. We met our host which was a man who is pretty well in shape
his name is Richard Kwalske, he works with Helping Hands ministry in
both Germany and Uganda, and has his own seperate projects in Bolivia.
I think he is awesome, he got me super pumped about everything that we
would be doing from church planting, preaching, teaching english,
learning Lugandan and Swahili <and several other languages I can't
spell>, going to bush churches to evangelize, house visits, and
establishing a home that he had built for us!!!! After being here for 6
days in a house in the middle of the courtyard of his school for
orphans we are moving into a newly finished building that he has had
built for us to stay in our 6 months and have other mission teams stay
in, and as we live here other mission teams will be coming through for
about a week at a time and we will be like their team leaders to show
them and take them with us in our ministries here. Our main leader here
is a man that people call Pastor Moses, he seems like an incredible man
we went to church on sunday and during tesify time every single person
that got up to share about what God was doing in their lives pastor
Moses was someone they were also thanking. They asked me to teach the
"youth service" which was anyone from 12-24 years old, it was pretty
cool we knew a song in Swahili already so we sang it with them.

 

    Everyday life here right
now looks like alot of just hanging out with people which sounds like
not much but if we leave our home <with us being white> we get
mobbed by children yelling MZUNGU MZUNGU which means white or white
person and they follow us wherever we go they want to touch us, play
with us, with our hair, they like pulling my leghair, and most of all
just follow us to hold our hands or try to jump onto our already moving
bikes..... I am looking forward to doing some more singing in the
middle of a square full of Ugandans, their were about 500 people
listening to us sing in English while the pastors prepared a message
for the crowds.

 

     to anybody reading this i might add some more but im praying for you and i love you all

     even strangers....