Week 7

 

I'm currently sitting in the source cafe in Jinja with a chocolate chip cookie and an iced mocha :)~ so you could say i'm doing pretty good, internet on the base is still down, I think they got it back for a few hours before the wires got stolen again!

Well this week my small group leader Nehemiah told me that I’m getting louder, I guess that means I'm officially at home here now! Tuesday was an exciting day because we finally found out where we're going on outreach! Kenya and the Tanzania! Not sure exactly where in those countries or what it is we'll be doing there but it's good to know now where we are headed, it's going to be a good yet testing time for us, no less because starting next week until the end of outreach we have to get up at 5am to spend on hour praying for outreach before quiet time! I am excited for going on outreach though but I know we are going to be stripped back to basics even more than we already are and I know that these experiences e.g. sharing a mattress with 2 others will be challenging but will really grow me!

This week I also started reading 1 of my books for my DTS, “it is really you God?” by Lorren Cunningham- the founder of YWAM, it tell s the story of YWAM and how it started but it's also really encouraging so I would recommend that you find a copy and read it!!!!!!

Thursday we had a day (morning) or prayer and fasting, which is funny because this weeks ;lectures were on orayer and intercession, so we got to prectice what we had learnt! I think the most important thing I learnt this week was to pray with expectancy and faith that what you are praying for will happen, I mean sometime we don't have faith because we don't want to be let down when our timing doesn;t fit with Gods, but i've learnt that this week we just have to have faith and more faith and more faith and continue to have fait that our prayers will be answered when the timing is right! I feel it was a very productive morning and am excited for some things, but I cant tell you about them yet.... hehe

Friday, ah yes Friday, I think I broke my toe..... I know I need to stop cutting. Hurting my feet, thus time it wasn't hitting a rock or falling over. I dropped a hoe on my foot whilst weeding for work duty! My foot is now steri stripped and plastered, partly to stop the dirt getting in, partly to stop me trying (and failing) to bend it and partly to stop the nail falling off! I'm fine tho! :) I was even fine enough to (stupidly) try and run during boot camp- that failed but I did get a good ab work out :)

I think that's about it for this week! Although one last strange thing this week I have been homesick for lakeside- typical Essex girl I know! Hahaha! So if you wanna pray for me about that then please do, and also that I have a very clear instruction about what God wants me to do at the end of this year! Missing y'all ( in the words of Becca) have a blessed week!

Month uno!

So my mum told me that I haven't blogged in a while and I guess she's right so....

I've officially been in Uganda a month which is totally crazy- it doesn't feel like it's been that long at all and although I don't want to wish my time away it's nice that time is going by without too much effort!

The last week has been a bit of a roller-coaster, Sunday I went to Calvary chapel church which was good a bit of a mix between engligh/african church so that was interesting. We then went to flavours for lunch and I got these amazing kebab things and hot chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream! YUM! The internet wires got stolen on Monday so we were cut of from the outside world again! We had work duties on Monday which involved cleaning the whole of the massive dinning room- that wasn't so fun! We did however got porridge afterwards, african porridge is very runny and you drink it, it's surprisingly nice especially with nutella!

On wednesday I did my first African grass cutting- know and slashing- you get a mettal pole with a sharp and an hack at the grass- it's hard work and blisters are inevitable! Gardening also happened on Friday when we spent an hour pulling up weeds, it had just been raining so we got extremely muddy! Thursday I got ill which was nasty I had a stomach ache and headache for a couple of days.

On the plus side, the talks were good (once they started, our speaker didn't turn up for the wek so we had a DVD instead!) I learnt a lot about deliverance and demons which was interesting!

Saturday was the best day I’ve had here so far, Iran! (about 1mile) Then had a lazy couple of hours before me Becca and Katie went into Jinja we went to the source for lunch and I got a cheese burger and an iced mocha! Which was amazing and cost the equivalent of £1.10 :D

we then went to Shalom orphanage in Bugembe (one of the local villages) and spent just over an hour there, they have about 20 kids there from 2-16 and we played games with them and they showed us their dances which they perform in churches and places which were really amazing. We joined in for a bit but the kids kept laughing at us so I guess that means we weren't very good!

Sunday I spent 2 hours washing and went into Kakira for some luch, we bought Rolex's which are chibatti and egg- LUSH :) I also got hit my a boda-boda, I’m not joking it just drove straight into me while I was talking to someone. I'm not hurt PLT however it did continue to try and drive through me once it realised it had hit me! That wasn't so fun!

I think that's all for now! I'll be back soon!