Let’s see…. Today we did eyeglass distribution, door to
door, carrying water from the well, stopped again at the super supermarket and
4 team members got tattoos. Good
day.
This morning we got a little bit slower start due to the
party event last night. When we
got to Buloba there were probably 10 people sitting and waiting for us. In total we gave away more than 230
pair of reading glasses. Today
there were quite a few who came in today and broke out with smiles as they put
on their glasses. It is such a joy
to provide something so simple that is so life changing. We are leaving the remaining glasses
for the church to do other distribution possibly up at the main road at the
market place as servant evangelism.
While we were waiting for more people to come in for
eyeglasses Lauren decided that she wanted Amos (our resident artist) to give
her an African tattoo. He
willingly agreed. Then Catherine
decided to go for it, Morgan asked for a little one and Josh decided it was a
good idea. So we all watched and
the Bulobans thought it was funny.
We realized that we needed to head to the well to carry
water back from the run off well down at the bottom of the bush. So we headed off with the jerry cans
and Bulobans following along.
After discussion from the Ugandans they said that round trip the journey
is a mile and a half. Every body
survived and Morgan won the wettest Muzungu contest. Turns out the cap for her jerry can wasn’t so water
tight. After the team got back to
the church they all voiced their new appreciation for water that comes out of
the faucet. And we learned a new
facet from the water journey- the kids that have to carry water on a regular
basis typically are shorter and smaller.
Turns out that the weight of the jerry cans 2x a day compress their
spines and keep them from growing like they should. Until Buloba decides to have a water system piped into
people’s homes this is something that won’t be easy to change. We pray as we go that we would have an
ability to create change for this too.
This afternoon the team headed off in 4 teams and there was
a lot of reaping going on. Amanda
headed off on a team by herself with church members and David our interpreter. David knew her hesitation about sharing
the gospel so he intentionally would walk away to “be on the phone” or “help”
with one of the church members baby.
So out of the 5 homes 4 different people came to know Christ…with Amanda
leading the way! : )
And other teams brought back great reports of conversations
with Muslims who have questions and challenged the team. It was a really challenging good time
for everyone I think.
And David is working on giving us African names. I will unveil those tomorrow. Tomorrow we head off to Jinja to be
tourists. For the Nile boat journey,
the falls, the bunjee jumping and lunch at a wonderful bed and breakfast.
Oh and about Amos- he is also our resident liar. He gave the team tattoos with a sharpie
marker.
Good night and matooke. Pics will be posted in about 3 or 4 hours.
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