Why did I go to Uganda, you ask?

Here is the list I kept while I was in Uganda and I would discover another purpose of why I was there. . . .

--to depend on the Lord physically, emotionally, mentally

--to see Him through their eyes

--to learn about ARM and tell others about it

--to assist and encourage teacher Eve & Francis

--to gain direction for my future

--to gain wisdom from Francis about parenting, ministry, Africa, orphans

--to share some of God through my eyes with them

--to see ways in which I want to raise my own children

--to learn some practical skills like taking care of babies

--to give love and attention and care to babies who need it as well as the children

--to help get Raymond to university

--to communicate the Father’s love to the Alma house simply by BEING here and given them

attention

--to teach me how to become a person who savors and appreciates fully everything I do & I have

--to take Africa off its pedestal and make it real

--to be humbled and learn about my self

--to help sponsor the Alma house

Ultimately, to form relationships with some incredible children and be their "Auntie."

I'm Back!

(receiving their Ugandan knives and stabbing me with them)

For those of you that do not know, I'm back in the states!

I did not post it on here cause I was surprising part of my family. And I must say, it was QUITE the surprise.
You would have thought I came back from the dead for sure.

Priceless.

I just couldn't NOT be with my family over Christmas. Especially after the year we had last year.

Thank you to everyone who has kept up with my blog. You have been a huge encouragement to me.
I will continue to post things on here, they just won't be written while in Africa and they won't be as frequent.

I will probably be posting more pictures and follow-up thoughts about Uganda on here very soon so check back for that.

Mukono

A couple weeks ago, The Kisslings, Emily and I went to visit Jake (texas guy) in Mukono. About an hour from us. Their church just got a new building so we went for that and to give Jake some muzungu encouragement. It was a fun adventure in the awesome Ugandan taxis, good fellowship, and beautiful scenary!



You see this everywhere here. Everything is carried on your head. I've been wanting to get a picture of it but i always feel pretty awkward taking a picture of a random person walking. I just got over myself this time and did it!

I just thought this was crazy. This was the school is like in Mukono. Can you imagine?

Just hangin

Oh this precious girl, Eva. She has stolen my heart. Ask me about her please.

Looking good. ;)

We just sit on the side of the house a lot and hang out. Its the cool place to be.

We got sugar cane! Ah how i love this. Takes me back to when we used to live next to the sugar cane fields in Breaux Bridge!

yum!

Harvest time!

This precious child fell asleep on me at Speak day. I have no idea who she is or anything. But she sat on my lap, took her shirt off, and promptly fell asleep. And then sweated all over me. Awesome. =) it was worth it.

Time to harvest beans!!!


Aren't they beautiful?! I've been eating fresh beans for the past few weeks! mmmm!

A few more

This was from Speak day when the whole school performed! SOOO wonderful! and my Top class graduated!
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A few at a time. ..

My baby graduated!!!