week 5:
thus far, this week has been good. The teaching was a little funny.. kind of all stuff we already knew. We've been learning about the character & nature of God as well as the fear of God. (There have been some interesting cultural things that have come up this week, but with only 23 minutes of battery left, they will have to wait!) This week we also switched worka duty, I am now on housekeeping... which is really boring because we only have a few rooms to clean, lots of people, and nowhere near enough cleaning supplies. I have ended up just killing bugs & mopping floors these last three days. Oh how I long for weeding! Tuesday during break tea we found a Chameleon .. which of course we picked up. I pet it! (And I pet a bat yesterday during worka duty too! Don't worry Kelso, the bat was asleep... it was really soft though!) Today was prayer and fasting day.
Oh, quickly, I'd better tell you about mini outreach. I am going to Fort Portal. We leave march 15th an come back the 28th! It is a town in the West right on the border with Congo. (The Democratic Republic of Congo, actually, but here everyone just calls it Congo.) It is apparently in the Rwenzori mountains that are supposedly quite beautiful and made from volcanic ash! Our group is 20 people. The group to Iganga (60KM East?) is 9 people and the group to Wairaka is 8 people. We leave the 15th at about 5 am. Our leader told them that we would be there about 1pm and we have an open air crusade starting at 3pm!! This trip will be a HUGE stretch for me... we are mainly focusing on Crusades, Seminars (where we teach groups of people what we have been learning during lecture phase thus far (quite possibly with very little notice and we are required to select the topic!!), door to door evangelism, and preaching in churches. None of those are in my comfort zone as far as ministry goes. Give me dramas, or kids, or some kind of mercy ministry please! (though apparently in Uganda those are the main ministries used... so... time for more S T R E T C H I N G!!! Also, the three people I spend the most time with (all guys ironically) are going to Iganga. Not Fort Portal. (though I was kind of expecting that... ) And the girl I am probably closest to is going to Wairaka. So... time for more relationship building. (But it's ok, I am an "S" personality type... so I will enjoy it... eventually.) No, actually I am excited to get to know some of the other people on the DTS, especially getting to know the girls better (all 5 americans are going to Fort Portal, and we have no "muzungu" guys at all!) (the Iganga guys have no "muzungu" girls (and there are only 3 girls each on both of the other teams!!!) So God knows what He is doing. Please, please, keep us in your prayers!
So, to add to the busy-ness of the base, we are now getting up at 4:45 to pray at 5am every morning for outreach. Then we have meetings from about 8-10 pm going over outreach details. Small groups have been suspended and now we meet in our outreach groups to learn dramas & songs & plan the details for our trips! Not only that, we still have our 10 chapters a day, quiet time, & we had questions due for "Is that really You, God?" due tomorrow. Then there is still kitchen duty (I am cooking Sunday) and, oh, things like Laundry to do too... oh, yea, and then there is just time to chill and breathe... so, so sorry that i have been slow with the updates. I promise a long one Saturday!
Yahoo.. Supper is almost here.. and we are SO hungry, all I have eaten all day is two rolls, two cups of tea (one Peppermint.. :( ) and a banana.
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