The last few months have been elelabun! We have been very busy babysitting, story-telling, hiking,
meeting new friends, killing spiders and snakes, and celebrating. Our days have
been full.
In the middle of September, my sister Kristi and her husband
Kenneth took a long-awaited anniversary trip to Zanzibar while Andrew, myself,
and our two short-term girls watched all
seven of their children. Let me tell you, it was a long week! J But we survived and
more importantly all the kids survived and we finished up the week by meeting
Kristi and Kenneth at a friend’s house in Soroti for swimming (in a real pool!)
and fellowship. Thank you to the Dwires for your hospitality!
While Kristi and Kenneth were gone, Andrew had the chance to
share some Bible stories in the village. We continue to be encouraged by the
way God is opening people’s ears to His Word and what it means to follow Him.
We look forward to the doors God will open in more villages this dry season as
we have easier access to new places.
The beginning of the dry season is bringing lots of snakes and spiders out of the
woodwork. We have already killed 5 snakes in the last month (I killed my first
just a few nights ago!) and at least one more got away. I also killed my first
camel spider the other night. Suffice it to say, I’m ready to move to Kotido
where it’s dry and hot and not snake paradise!
We just finished celebrating the week-long festival of
Succoth (check out Leviticus 23:33-43 for more info). It was a great week of
celebrating God’s provision and all that He’s done for us. We had a good time feasting,
worshipping, and fellowshipping together and we enjoyed having a couple
visitors from Jinja join us at the end.
Now we are turning our attention back to finishing our huts, which will hopefully be completed by the end of this month. To sign off, here are some pictures of the progress:
This will be our cooking/sitting hut.
Here's our future bedroom.
This is the property we'll be living on.
