A Busy Week

Hi All
Long time since we last communicated!
This past week has been one full of many new experiences and adventures and we can’t wait to tell you all about them. If we put them all into one post, it would be a VERY long post so today will be an overview and then the next few days will give you more details about each event.
Last Sunday we had an absolutely amazing day. We started off with attending church at 9AM- always a highlight of our week and such an amazing time of worshiping our Lord. After church we had lunch with friends- just one other couple and thoroughly enjoyed our time together. We have met so many amazing people in our time here! As we were leaving from lunch “the storm of the century” hit (OK maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration, but I have never seen rain come down like that, ever!). We came home to a slightly flooded apartment- there is space under all our doors and we left one window open.
On Sunday afternoon we had a most amazing experience. While working at the babies’ home, Lorenda met a woman named Joanna who is from Sweden. She came to work with Watoto for a few months and then to work with Youth for Christ at their home for pregnant teens for a few months and then return to Sweden after being in Uganda for one year. God has changed her course in a BIG way and I can’t wait to tell you about it! She has now rented a home where she and one other adult have taken in 47 street children! Tune in tomorrow for the details!
Lorenda spent Monday and Tuesday at Country Lake Resort near Garuga – not far from Kampala, on the road to the airport and then off on another road until you get to the shore of Lake Victoria- beautiful! That story will be told on Tuesday!
While Lorenda was away getting refreshed at the retreat, Greg and Albert (one of his colleagues) went shopping to buy Greg a new suit to wear to a wedding on Saturday. Albert took Greg to the shop where he needed to go and picked out what Greg needed to wear to fit in at the Ugandan celebration. Have you ever seen Greg wear a purple shirt? I don’t mean mauve or lilac, I mean PURPLE! There will be pictures later in the week.
Lorenda spent one day acting as the driver for the Watoto maintenance team. Driving four young Ugandan men around the city can be a real adventure- especially when we arrive at a corner and one says, “Turn left” and another tells you to “Turn right”. Kampala is the only city I have ever been in where you can turn left, turn right or go straight ahead and still arrive at the same place! I have quit trying to figure it out and have just accepted it as fact- another of the mysteries of the world! There will be stories about the driving adventures so stay tuned.
Yesterday we attended our first Ugandan wedding. It was not a huge production like most are. This couple chose to keep it smaller and simpler, but still it was beautiful! Ed, one of the guys on Greg's team, had our camera and took many pictures so we will share some of those with you later in the week.
As you can see, it has been a busy week full of lots of excitement and we can’t wait to share all of it with you….stay tuned.