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#welcometoAfrica

February 9, 2013
Adventures
Life on the Field

"I think this is the craziest thing that I've ever seen/done/experienced." I feel as though I say this sentence or something like it almost every day here, which is a wonderful thing. New experiences are around every corner and it's so amazing to be a part of them! Every time something else crazy happens, we turn to each other and say "Welcome to Africa," because here, our crazy is their normal and it is fantastic. Whether its using the bathrooms here called squatty potties with a lizard keeping you company in the corner, cooking dinner in the hallway because...

Love transcends all

February 3, 2013
Adventures
Admissions

I am continually amazed by the amount of joy the people, but especially the children of Uganda have. Even in the midst of such poverty they have the brightest smiles that capture your heart. Whenever I am surrounded by children here, I am overwhelmed by their love. I can only hope they feel as loved by me as I do by them. Today our team went to a Sunday church service at Kinyansano Cathedral. There I sat with a six year old girl and her two little sisters. None of us spoke the same language but it didn’t matter. The Lord continuously reminds me that love can transcend any...

Why Follow When God Says Lead?

February 2, 2013
Adventures
General Posts

I have to be honest, leadership is never something I wanted for myself. And Uganda isn't somewhere I ever pictured myself coming back to. But I am SO thankful that the Lord knows better, and that his plans are way better than my own. I went on the World Race in July 2011. Toward the end of my race,God kept putting this whole leading a Passport trip thing on my mind. But I was terrified. So I kept ignoring it and dreaming of what my life in America would look like. I had all these plans for my life, and they were my plans. I wasn't considering God's, but he had much...

Go, Tell it on the Mountain

February 1, 2013
Adventures
Life on the Field

Today, I was "one of the guys". Over the weekend, Garrett and Colin hiked out to some of the more remote and rural villages a few miles away, and ever since they returned with stories of the people they met and things they experienced, I've had an inexplicable desire to go see for myself. I tried to get them to go back and take me with them on Monday. And on Tuesday. And again on Wednesday. And I was a little confused about what God was doing and discouraged when the days came and went and we still hadn't gone. And then I realized, for about the thousandth time since being...

Toilet Paper…?

January 31, 2013
Adventures
Admissions

Alright. I know you are wandering about the title, as you should be. The story is a little embarassing but hey, i am in Africa. Ok, so we went to church sunday and its like a forty minute bus ride, which I LOVED!!! Anyways, we got done with church and were waiting to head back home, so i figured i should probably go to the squatty. (For those of you who dont know what a squatty potty is, it is nothing but a hole in the ground where you go to do your business.) So i make my way to the squatty, do my business, reach for the toilet paper… There is none. Anywhere. I was looking...

Plateau on a mountain top.

January 29, 2013
Adventures
Admissions

Before I left for Uganda everyone was telling me "you're never going to be the same again" or "you're life is going to be flipped upside down ". In a lot of ways those words are true. I definitely have a larger appreciation for the things I took for granted. Drinking water from the sink, stove tops, and garbage service to name a few. Those are the things you never really learn the value of until you are forced to live without. I definitely have learned a lot about improvisation. We are two weeks in and things have been rather different, but I very...

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