Let’s see…. Today we did eyeglass distribution, door to door, carrying water from the well, stopped again at the super supermarket and 4 team members got tattoos. Good day.
This morning we got a little bit slower start due to the party event last night. When we got to Buloba there were probably 10 people sitting and waiting for us. In total we gave away more than 230 pair of reading glasses. Today there were quite a few who came in today and broke out with smiles as they put on their glasses. It is such a joy to provide something so simple that is so life changing. We are leaving the remaining glasses for the church to do other distribution possibly up at the main road at the market place as servant evangelism.
While we were waiting for more people to come in for eyeglasses Lauren decided that she wanted Amos (our resident artist) to give her an African tattoo. He willingly agreed. Then Catherine decided to go for it, Morgan asked for a little one and Josh decided it was a good idea. So we all watched and the Bulobans thought it was funny.
We realized that we needed to head to the well to carry water back from the run off well down at the bottom of the bush. So we headed off with the jerry cans and Bulobans following along. After discussion from the Ugandans they said that round trip the journey is a mile and a half. Every body survived and Morgan won the wettest Muzungu contest. Turns out the cap for her jerry can wasn’t so water tight. After the team got back to the church they all voiced their new appreciation for water that comes out of the faucet. And we learned a new facet from the water journey- the kids that have to carry water on a regular basis typically are shorter and smaller. Turns out that the weight of the jerry cans 2x a day compress their spines and keep them from growing like they should. Until Buloba decides to have a water system piped into people’s homes this is something that won’t be easy to change. We pray as we go that we would have an ability to create change for this too.
This afternoon the team headed off in 4 teams and there was a lot of reaping going on. Amanda headed off on a team by herself with church members and David our interpreter. David knew her hesitation about sharing the gospel so he intentionally would walk away to “be on the phone” or “help” with one of the church members baby. So out of the 5 homes 4 different people came to know Christ…with Amanda leading the way! : )
And other teams brought back great reports of conversations with Muslims who have questions and challenged the team. It was a really challenging good time for everyone I think.
And David is working on giving us African names. I will unveil those tomorrow. Tomorrow we head off to Jinja to be tourists. For the Nile boat journey, the falls, the bunjee jumping and lunch at a wonderful bed and breakfast.
Oh and about Amos- he is also our resident liar. He gave the team tattoos with a sharpie marker.
Good night and matooke. Pics will be posted in about 3 or 4 hours.
I am teary, I am so PROUD of Amanda! Way to step out on faith, girl!
And you had me until the end about the tatoos...good one!
Posted by: Emily | May 20, 2009 at 08:01 PM