Hello everyone! We are winding down our time here in Uganda. We leave Lira a week from this Friday. From here we will head to Jinja for a few days to do some white water rafting and to wind down a bit. Then from Jinja we will drive to Entebbe for our flight back to the states. It’s sad that it is so close to being over but we have had a great time here and have done so many amazing and fun things and have made relationships with the most amazing people.  Lira is a place I’ll never forget and I hope that I can return again someday. The weather has been hot for the most...

          I had a whole other blog planned and I had a lot more meaningful things to say. But as I sat here to type it out, and thought about the fact that as of today, I only have 13 days left in Uganda, I suddenly had nothing to say except how much I am going to miss this place and these people. So here is a non-inclusive list of some of the things I will miss. This doesn’t even scratch the surface, but it’s a start. I really feel like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz when she is leaving Oz to go home to Kansas. Part of me wants to go...

Well the last couple of weeks have been really good! Just thought I’d give an update on what we did they have looked like and how things are going. We performed a love song medley and did a dance at our Friend’s Sam & Doreen’s wedding. Only in Africa, would this happen haha.. And there is a wedding this upcoming Saturday, and they asked us to do a song and a dance too! Just call us the wedding singers! Esther is doing ok.. She still needs prayers, so keep on praying! Her weight has not increased much and she is not really eating much food at all. Her chest is hurting...

I'm not sure that there is any one thing that I want to share today. This week has been just another, same old,… awesome, amazing, awe inspiring week in Lira, Uganda! Thursday included a long walk with a new friend, a mud fight in the rain, a dead duck, and fun time in the kitchen with the Alpha ladies. Friday was the day that my ministry team discovered a new program for street kids that is probably my favorite place in Lira to be! The organization is called Atin Afrika and they do phenomenal work rehabillitating street children. We even spent some time talking with some of our...

With deep remorse, guilt and shame, I am sad to say that I have ACCIDENTALLY ended the life of one of our precious duck pals “Florence”. It was a cool afternoon with heavy, heavy rain falling. The ducks Ferguson and Florence had just been transported inside to our bathroom for a rendezvous with a warm towel where they were feeling very balmy and toasty. This where it gets graphic. As I was capping off a scolding hot shower I may or may have not smashed the living daylights out of our female duck friend Florence with my size 13’s. The sound that poor poultry made will...

I am sorry for being such a horrible blogger. I quickly lose patience with the internet speed and decide "I'll just wait until next week," and now it's been over a month since my last post. I'll try to give a somewhat quick summary of some things that have happened over the last month and then will try to post one or two more pointed blogs…so here goes!    Living in a mud hut in the village was interesting. On the way to a huge lake, I rode on the back of a motorcycle (boda-boda) for so long that my face was visibly coated in dirt. We ate the best...