Family! It's been a long couple of weeks.
So we left the MTC Tues.
morning. We had to get up at 4 so that we could be there by 6. Not sure
why because the plane left at like 3 pm.
But all the airport and flying stuff is a lot better in a group. We got
to Uganda that night and drove to the mission home. Man, driving in
Uganda is INSANE! I wanted to get a video of it but started to feel a
bit sick. You should try to find a video of it somewhere. Maybe not you
mom. I think you'd die just watching it.
We stayed in the mission home
for a couple nights then I flew out again. This time I could only take
one thing of luggage. Somehow I was able to get mostly everything in it
though. I got here and my companion is sick. So I switched off with
the other set for the first couple of days. My apartment is super nice!
I think the best in the mission. Pretty
much just like staying in a nice hotel suite. The other houses around
aren't the best though. Some are like small huts with almost nothing and
lizards crawling around the walls. I used an outhouse the other day!
Just a tiny building with a hole in the ground and bricks on either side
to sit on. Thankfully I just had to pee...
Church was really
confusing. The speaker would say something and there would be someone
else up there to translate it to French and Kinyarwanda. I think that's
the main language here. I mostly hear a lot of just one word when I'm
walking around. Mzungu It means white person. We'll be passing a group
of kids running around and they'll see us and stop and stare, whispering
it. And whenever we pass by someone you can hear them muttering it to
each other. But the people here are great. Really open to the church. We
even just set a baptism date with someone last night. The church has
only been here for like 4 years.
I'm actually looking forward to hauling lots of wood when I get back.
Maybe by then I'll be able to carry the logs on my head. The people here
carry everything like that. There is no limit to how much they can fit
on their noggins.
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