Impossible is Irrelevant.     Life seems to constantly throw impossible situations in our faces, but it seems like those impossible situations appear even more so while one is in Africa.          The last two months in Uganda my team has been challenged with language barriers, sleep deprivation, sickness, stress, healing, doubts, heat, understanding cultural norms, false expectations, fear, homesickness, solutions to needs seen, finding our place in ministry, discouragement, being uncomfortable, and vulnerability. We have also faced...

This past week has been really hard. God is doing a lot, but it’s in ways that is stretching me out of something that I am very comfortable in. God has been asking me to learn how to be vulnerable with Him and with the people around me. And, honestly, I don’t like it. It hurts, and it scares the crap out of me. I’ve become so comfortable in not being vulnerable that I don’t even know what it looks like to be vulnerable. I know how to be “vulnerable” and open about past experiences and how God has grown me in them, but I don’t like, and don’t...

Oh hey there!!!  So this past week in Uganda has been pretty great!! God has been showing me so many things in big and small ways. On Thursday we met with a couple kids who lived on the street. Their english was not very strong, but that didnt  matter to me. I communicated with them through thetheir eyes. On Friday we went to the Church and I got to eat sim sim for the first time…..Yay for sim sim haha. During the afternoon I got the opporunity to go to victory outreach north, a branch of the church we go to. While i was there my eyes were opened immensely. It was a very...

….Negative!!! Praise Report! My entire team is malaria negative. Praise God!     And now, it is time for my real blog.   This week has been an off week. I’ve had really bad sinus’s all week, so I haven’t done much ministry. So here is a little something I got out of my quiet timeJ   I looked up the word scarlet and found it in two different verses. The first verse was Isaiah 1:18-20 and the other was Matthew 27:27-31. What interested me the most about the passages wasn’t their similarity, but rather the context that they’re in and how...

My titles are never an accurate representation of my blog. But they are true!  Ah. I never know where to even begin for these posts. There have been a lot of things on my heart lately and lots of things I’ve been wrestling through since before leaving America and am continuing to see God work in here. Hmm. This week was a tough one. Physically…spiritually…emotionally. I almost lost it at one point…which just so happened to be during a discussion with “Grandee”, an old women who gave us sweet potatoes and is a Jehovah’s Witness. We went back...

It seems the people of africa are better at recognizing asians than in San Antonio. Just sayin.  I keep hearing that people are reading my blog. I appreciate all of you letting me know because otherwise I would have very little motivation to actually write every week. SO thanks :D.  I think we're pretty much almost settled in to life here in Lira. Accepting the fact that Africa does crazy things to your feet and aware that they might never return to a normal hue again. We're also getting used to large amounts of dirt collecting in our noses/mouths/ears/etc. My siblings...