Blessings everyday!

We just continue to be blessed every day.
On Sunday we had a great day worshiping at Watoto Church. Oh- we are so going to miss our Ugandan brothers and sisters and their energetic, enthusiastic worship style.
After church we went out for lunch with a group of friends. This group meets every Sunday for their cell (Bible study) and every so often, we crash their party! Our friends Randy and Judy (yes, both of them) were having a birthday on Monday so we had a little party for them at lunch on Sunday. It was so much fun and such a blessing. Randy and Judy are such an amazing couple that encourage so many of us- it was great to do a little something for them.
Our days have continued to be busy. Tuesday morning we had team devotions- another amazing time of praise, worship and learning with our Watoto family. After that I went out to the Buloba farm (the farm where the chicken barn is) to help Judy hang curtain rods in the new house there.
Yesterday was a day of waiting, waiting, waiting. When our children were here in June, our son met a wonderful girl from Australia. In August, he went “down under” to meet her family and friends. She then began to make plans to come to Canada. However, she decided that she wanted to surprise Carlen so she told him that she would be arriving on November 30, but really she was arriving November 20. She and our daughters devised a plan and managed to keep it from Carlen. I put her itinerary into my iCal so that I could know where she was all day (it gets a little confusing just looking at the itinerary with four different time zones and me living in another time zone). I prayed for her as she flew across the Pacific for 14 ½ hours and then waited impatiently as she sat in Vancouver waiting for her next flight.  I went to bed and did manage to sleep for a while, but got up at 4:20 AM so that I could Facetime with everyone and be part of the excitement. We are so blessed.
Fortunately last evening was the night that our cell meets so we were able to be there being blessed, instead of waiting impatiently for Amy to arrive. Our cell is always such a blessing, but last night was incredible. Since we will be leaving soon, they had a time after our Bible study to honor us and thank us. It was such a huge blessing and so incredibly humbling to listen to our dear friends tell us how we have impacted them- but we didn’t do anything, we were just obedient and just loved the people that God has put in our path. They also had a cake to celebrate our 30th anniversary with us and told us how they are encouraged in their own marriages. I never really thought about it before, but people don’t usually marry really young here and the life expectancy is around 50 to 53 years so I guess being married for 30 years would not be that common here.
These people have been such a blessing to us- I really cannot put it into words that even come close.
Blessings, blessings, more every day!