Its another beautiful day here in Uganda. The weather so far has been so wonderful. I'm so thankful to be here with this team and these wonderful children. For not having a birth mother and father these children truly understand and express the meaning of Love. The boys here are so wonderful, they constantly want to love on and be loved on. They are generous, respectful, and compassionate. Today is my 5th day here and I love this place so much. I have even grown to like taking a bath in a basin, the rice and beans for every meal is gonna take a little more time getting used to but I'm sure I'll get there. Even though that's all these boys eat for every meal, they never complain they never get mad or upset, its actually quite the opposite. Every meal time these children are just so excited to have something to put in their belly that they jump with excitement to eat and to fellowship with one another. I'll admit yesterday Abby and I were out in town running errands I saw this place and at first I was like MCDONALDS then I realized not quite. Its called steer and its the closest thing to a McDonalds I'm going to find here. So we went in and I thought I was in heaven. I actually got a burger and fries and it tasted like an American Burger and Fries. I'll definitely be going back over the next 2 months haha. So now that I'm here and settled in me and Abby have gotten down to business. I'm going to be creating two new blogs and taking over alot of the emails. She basically needs me to do alot of the marketing/correspondent work for the house. She is so busy with everything else she just doesn't have time to do blog updates, check emails, upload pictures and videos so I'll be doing most of that. I had to get internet for the house because the internet cafes are so slow here. To do everything I need to do for the blogs and emails it would take me all day in the Internet Cafes so I'll now be able to do it alot quicker and more efficiently at the house. That's my hope anyways. Today I took a boda (motorcycle) by myself. I was a little nervous about it but it went fine. I went to meet Abby for lunch at the African Market and we went around town to do some shopping and get some things for the house. We got back just in time for the boys to get home for school. Tomorrow were meeting with our Hope House staff. The Hope House is a new project under A Perfect Injustice that were staring to help get young women off the streets. Were trying to help these young girls that are prostitutes find another way to make a living. We've found a 2 bedroom house for the girls where we will all meet Monday-Friday 9-4 to make jewelry. We have staff to come and train the girls how to make the jewelry, during the day we will also be having bible study, counseling, lunch, and most importantly jewelry making. I'm so excited the Lord has placed this on everyone's heart. The first day we met we only expected about 5 girls but 16 showed up. Its a little scary but we know the Lord put those women there for a reason and were going to pray and continue to have faith he will provide. We are praying the jewelry turns out beautiful and we can find people to buy it in the States. The girls are so thankful for this opportunity, overtime we will truly see and understand the hearts of each of the women. We hope this will help them leave their old life behind not only their "job" life but we hope they will begin to receive the Lord.
Wow--the experiences you describe sound so rewarding and awesome! LOVE the blogging!! ;-) I need to see some pictures of this boda you drove!
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