I will start off by saying that this past week has not been an easy one. Many things happened that we could not control. But through it all we know God has been taking care of us and keeping us safe. Earlier in the week a few bombs went off in the city of Kampala. No one we knew was hurt but there were still people who lost loved ones that day. We continue to pray that God protects the people of Uganda so that such a thing does not happen again. We were planing on doing more door to door ministry in the flats that week but because of the recent events security told us we were not able to do that.
So we were not discouraged, we decided to go do door to door in the slums of Kampala, and that went very well. We got to encourage many people and some even come to accept Christ. One boy was walking through the area who looked about 16 and I stopped him and asked if he would like to talk. He was very open and told me he was a Muslim. I was able to encourage and share the Gospel with him and he decided to accept Christ right there, on the side of the path right in the middle of the slums. He he prayed and asked God into his life and I gave him my Bible and encouraged him to join a church. And then he was off. I don't know if I'll ever see him again, at least on earth, but I pray that he grows in his faith and that he does great and mighty things for God. The next day we addressed and packed about 3500 letters to people all around the world inviting people to a youth conference coming this August in Uganda. It took all day from morning till midnight but we got it done and even if it didn't feel very important it was work we did for God and that is good enough. The next day we got to go back to Kyampisi for a dinner there. We were glad to go back but it was a hard night to handle. We got there and we were informed that baby Moses had went to be with the Lord that morning. We had'nt known him very long at all but hearing his story had touched all our lives in some way. We know he is in heaven now and we rejoyce in that fact but that doesnt mean it isnt still a bit hard to hear. It was good to see everyonr that night and we still had some fun and we praise the Lord, no matter what.
Then we went back to Kampale for a bit of rest and some time to just think about all we have seen and try to work things out. Then on sunday we learned that one of our friends had been poisend. But by the grace of God he survived. We went with him to his church that sunday and despite himself being poisend he worshiped his heart out to the Lord and thanked God for his life. Then on monday we started our trip to Mbale. It should have taken about 4 hours but it took 12. The truck kept breaking down. Despite that we had alot of fun with our team from Bugolobi, talking and singing and just having fellowship. Now we are in Mbale and we did door to door in the village and then had crusades. I may talk more about that in my next blog but right now I have to go climb a mountian. More about all that later. God bless.
