Week 11- Update

Week 11:

Last week, was by far the best week of DTS thus far, and definitely one of the best weeks of my life. Our speaker was Gary Killingsworth, the leader of YWAM Scotland (he's an american) speaking on the Holy Spirit. His teaching style is so refreshing- Spirit led.. and focusing on how awesome, powerful, victorious, and just beyond our comprehension God is. it's just that here the whole christian culture is occupied with SIN,and how bad we are. To illustrate the point perfectly, this week (week 12) our memory verse is Galatians 5:19-23. It begins with a list of 16 (15 +1 etc) sins and then goes onto say that people who do this will not inherit the kingdom of God. Then finally we get the 9 fruits of the Spirit. And we have to make it into a song. So our group has turned it into a quite impressive rap. hahaha. But that week it was just so refreshing to just be able to get lost in how awesome and amazing God is. instead of just focusing on how much sinful man sucks. Friday was an awesome day, we had the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Then they treated us to a DTS fun day, and paid for us all to go to Kingfisher and swim and have an amazing meal. We had a blast.Then we got back and there was this whole big who-ha about supper, because they were supposed to save us some (it was chapati night after all) and Alex, our amazing guardian angel/fairy godmother/ amazing staffer from england had saved us some, but the person in charge of the kitchen didn't want us to have them and wouldn't give up the keys. Finally, we sent a hostage negotiation delegation, and they were able to persuade him to give up the keys. Yum. Chapat for supper!

Saturday, the boys & Catherine & I all went to town. We went shopping and hit up Fast Net, and some supermarkets. We ate at The Source (well french fries aka "chips" and soda) and had an all together amazing day. Sunday was another chill day. We spent the morning reading & doing laundry and composing our memory verse rap. Then we walked to Wairaka to buy chapatis and right after we had purchased our tasty sunday afternoon snack, it began to rain. So we started our walk back, through the MASSIVE amounts of mud. And, God rained down His grace upon us. As we walked, a man in a taxi passed us and offered us a free ride back to YWAM Hopeland. Wahoo. The rest of the day we just ate chapat & chilled in the common room.

That reminds me, Rainy Season is here. Which means that the average temperature has dropped, and it rains a lot. We get massive thunderstorms. Saturday night the thunderstorm was INSANE. It broke the windows of one house here! The thunder was SO LOUD it shook the building! Thus, it makes all of the dirt roads around here (so, all the roads but one) complete massive piles of mud. So our walk to Wairaka on Sunday was VERY VERY muddy... This week we also switched work duty again, so I'm back on grounds, pulling weeds and slashing.

Also, there was quite a tragedy that happened this weekend. I don't know if you heard or not (someone told me it made the international news) but Wednesday night there was a fire set in a school in Kampala. One of the staff of Discovery Centre, on base here, his daughter went to that school. Thursday morning we found out she was missing. They couldn't find her in the hospital, nor among the dead. (The doors of the school were locked, and so the kids were trapped inside. I don't know how many people died.) Word finally got to us (students anyway) on Sunday that they had found her, she was dead. Apparently 95% of her body was burned, but she died of suffocation. Her funeral was on Sunday. She was 10. Please keep her family (Parents & 3 younger brothers) in your prayers, her father's name is Dixon.