Katalemwa is always a joy because the children are so joyful. I love that today when we asked a child to pray he thanked God for his life- who does that? It's so great to be reminded of God's blessing of life and we, or I, so rarely spend time actually thanking him for it! Clive College was also awesome. I met my first set of Ugandan twins. They were so excited when I told them about my twin back home. I don't know if they've ever met another set of twins, or maybe it was simply that I was a Mzungo (Mah-zoon-goo) that they were excited. Either way, we took a picture together after a lovely time doing praise and worship! Dargvan Primary School was insane and absolutely fantastic at the same time. I can't tell you how many children were there, but we all crowded into one classroom. It was so much fun! I taught a lesson about Daniel and the Lions Den and they really enjoyed it, so that was encouraging to me. I've been a little intimidated about teaching, coordinating, doing games, etc, so it was nice to conquer that 2 times this week. Nothing like getting thrown in right when you get here to help out! (Just sayin')
The last project was my favorite, and I am so excited that we'll get to go to Good Choice every week that we're in Kampala! There are hundreds of children. They danced and sang to music playing and it was lovely! It made me think of back home because they sang Waka Waka and I'm pretty sure I made everyone in my life listen to that song the whole last week before I left for Africa. We did praise and worship with them, played an egg race game (which was hilarious) and Jamie taught a lesson on the man with leprosy. It was an incredibly long, tiresome, encouraging day. I love children all day long and I couldn't have asked for anything better. I am amazed at how quickly God works in our lives sometimes to answer our prayers and to reveal himself to us!
During devotion tonight we learned about the history of their political system here. I don't know what it is about history, but it naturally just broke my heart. Ivan told us about the President who has been in power for the past 25 years, how their are 3 social classes in Uganda: the very wealthy, the middle class, and the very, very poor. He explained the protests that we've been hearing about in the states and the rising gas prices. They pay 8.00 US Dollars a gallon for gas. 8.00. I can't handle that. I spend so much time complaining about my 3.00-4.00 gas prices, knowing I had a stable job to support me, and people can't even get to work. We prayed for peace in this nation, that God would rule over the crooked, and that his will would prevail. It was incredible. It put my life into perspective.
I know that I'm here and it's easy for this issue to be real to me now, but my prayer is that it will be real always. That we would be a loving world and desire to helps people in different nations and tribes to live. It's a new reality when you go from seeing it on TV to seeing in front of your face. I believe in the work Empower A Child is doing and my prayer is that this nation will remain peaceful with opportunity for them to succeed! Today was just a huge reminder about prayer, faithfulness, trust and love.
I can not begin to express how my heart of overjoyed at the opportunity to be here. It is definitely worth giving everything up for! Thank you for your continued prayer and support!
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