It is shocking! I have been here for nearly 10 weeks! Craziness! But i believe the time has been powerful and i believe the time will be powerful! Chuganda Kuba Chika! (Its going to be powerful)
Stephen is now in England! How funny and he comes back here on the 30th of Jan and i will back in England then and one of his young daughters and son is with him. I love them, he said we could arrange a day with them and spend some time with them! The cutest of his tho, is about 2! She is adorable! I want one! I will get a picture and you will understand! I have considered stealing her a few times, inace we are getting quite attatched to eachother. She comes and finds me in services and in rehearsals and even at school. She snuggles all down until she is comfy and then falls
OK ..... i do not have very long at all but i will brief you on just a few important things. The party in the slums last Saturday was immense. The children were very naughty and unappreciative of the things we gave them but they really enjoyed our company. I think because of their lifestyle and the way they have been brought up or not brought up, some of them being homeless and fatherless has caused their bad manners. Although at first we were overwhelmed, it because clear that it was not their fault at all. We had an awesome day with the children, we gave then sweets and drinks, balloons we sang to them, they sang to us, we danced with them and played games! It was so powerful nd i just pray that God's name was shouted out in the slums that day as GIVE ME!
The first picture is of a family in the slums. The mother is dying of Aids and she has three children. an older girl about 14, a boy of 7 and another boy of perhaps just under 2? The children probably have the disease too. The mother is really suffering and they live in this small small room, in the same bed, in the middle of the slums. It is really badly smelling. We went in and prayed with the lady and we asked God to decrease her pain and suffering. She was a prostitute for many years as she had no income to support her first child . Through prostitution she conceived the other two children, meaning each child is from a different Father. This sadly, is very common here!
The second picture is of me with a grandmother of many. One being the baby she is holding. This lady has very bad health issues, i am unsure of them but her daughter abandoned her children with them. This lady is really struggling. She finds it hard to bring in bread every few weeks and she does not know what the future holds for the children.
We were then able to take a picture of just a few of the children we saw that day and played with.
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Holiday!!!
Okay i will give you the outline of our scheldule and please pray that we will fill each day with work etc, please also pray that everything will be successful and we will stay safe!
Okay! Where do i start???
Tomorrow? Okiedokies......
Sunday 14th Dec - We are going to church and then during the service we are going to leave to go to a huge tribal gathering in Kampala. I am wearing an African dress and we are going to see all the tribes gather to meet and for once get on! It is a Christian even but there will be thousands of people there and funnily enough maybe the president! How cool....we will be trying all the different foods and singing and dancing to all the different types of music. There is over a hundred tribes in Uganda. I wonder what its going to be like! Fascinated .... i cant wait! Then depending on when we return, we may go to the youth service!
Monday 15th Dec - Spending day with the orphans and then we have dance rehearsals and music rehearsals for Christmas production!
Tuesday 16th Dec - We are taking the hostel kids (Orphans) to Kampala, some of them will never have been there strangely! Pray for safety for the children and pray that we will not loose any! There are many! We then have an evening service.
Wednesday 17th Dec - Spending day with the orphans and then we have dance rehearsals and music rehearsals for Christmas production!
Thursday 18th Dec - We, i think are going on a trek for the whole day! Woooo.....maybe i will see some more monkeys and mega lizards hanging from the tree! Then we have rehearsals and an evening service.
Friday 19th Dec - We have an over night at the hiar salon because it takes forever and a day...quite literally do do crazy things to our hair and we are maids the following day so we are sleeping in a salon! How weird!
Saturday 20th Dec - We have the wedding.....help! Bridesmaids to people you don't know,in a forieign country in ugly dresses....brilliant!
Sunday 21st Dec - Recovering.........Church, worship, youth service
In between these days we are going to drive around the villages publicisin the Chrismas production with a PA system, lots of sweets, singing, acting and dancing!
Wednesday 24th Dec - Christmas eve - Christams production! Its going to be immense!
Thursday 25th Dec - Church in the a.m.......We are spendning Christmas day with the orphans. I can't wait but i will miss you and my family! )we are doing a secret santa between the team, should be fun!
Friday 26th Dec - We leave for our little holiday in one of the sessy islands, i cant wait! Kanoeing and swimming, fishing, treking and allsorts!
Tuesday 30th Dec - Come home from sessy!
Wednesday 31st Dec - Spending new year at Hellens Church because they have fireworks....not looking forward to that! I don't know why, im scared about that if i am honest, more than Christmas!
1st Jan - We are leaving to go to Helens home villiage in Kumi. It takes 10 ish hours via taxi....pray for that, i get really constriphobic altho is a hilarious expereince, we get them all the time now but they are bonkers! Hellens villaige is mud hutsa nd a huge plain. Hellen is worried we will hate the way we sleep, once again .... an experience!
5th Jan - Leave the villiage and head for Jinger......should be my home town! This day will concist of us bungee jumping and white water rafting! How scary!
6th Jan - I am recording the song i have written with Eric.
17th Jan - saying goodbyes....etc!
18th Jan - My flight is at 6.50 English time and i get into Heathrow at 3.55 ish. Oh my.....its coming to an end!!
( In all of the gaps we are going to be visiting homes, hospitals, other organisations, orphanages and schools etc, we will be going back to the slums,
som emore health care and HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns, playing with the hostel kids, painting walls in the school ....cool, playing and talking with the homeless etc. Pray that we will find more doors and that everything we do will be for the glory of God!
Anything else to write home about??
Please pray for the team still, that we carry on getting closer, and pray that people will stop talking about me going home because i still have over 5 weeks!
Erm.....Please pray for my money situation as i am rapidly running out on money. Sounds silly but being white is automatically a downside sometime here becuase you are overpriced for everything!
Okay.....i will tell you a funny story that happened this week. Basically babies are everywhere and most of them are nakey! Starkers! They run everywhere naked and they sit everywhere naked and everywhere we have looked this week, there has just been babies i s weir places, like a baby randomly sitting in a bush or on a goat. Anyways....most of the babies altho naked....where a ring of beads around thier waist. Their mothers do this to thier kids as like a tradition. It is supposed to get angels protect them from getting theor bellies funny shapes of something becasue of their lack of food. Thier bellies bloat anyways and it is just a myth of course but on Tuesday we were walking along the dusty road near our house. Out of the dust walks this cute baby....starkers and James shouts....for goodness sake....put on your beads.
You may not find this funny at all, but we were wetting ourselves! Our team has so many hilarious quotes and saying that i have put them all in a quotebook and i will cherish them forever!
ANyways.....i will not ramble on. Although...once again, i already have!
Sorry about spelling and punctuation but you know what i am like anyways!
Keep praying for me, i hope you have not forgot what i look like!
I love and miss you all and really hope your enjoying this time of year, i keep thinking it is August! I can't even imagine what England must be like by now, with its Marks and Spencers Christmas adverts and all that jazz!
Pure!
