Take Away

It's been a bit of time since I last posted, so let me get you up to date. In the past few weeks we have shifted to Graceland which is located in a village rather than in the city of Kampala. It's absolutely beautiful here, but leaves me with a rather long commute into school (I can finally say I've mastered Ugandan public transportation). Which leads me to the topic of school. I am now teaching Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at New Creation Centre (P4) in Kampala, and Tuesday and Thursday in the New Creation Family Home (P4) at Graceland. And on top of that I have begun giving extra math help, yes math, to the P7 class at NCC. It's a big change, but I know it's exactly where God wants me.

The sunrise from Graceland on my birthday

The lovely view of the sunset I have out my bedroom window

I have not posted recently, because I just haven't had anything worthwhile to say. Not that I do now, but recently I started doing journals with my P4 class at NCC and some of their responses to my journal prompts make me laugh quite hard. So I thought I'd share with you some of the prompts and the silly answers given.

What  is something you are scared to try and why?
Leonard- I am scared to sit on a donkey.
Suzan- I am scared to hit my brother because it is bad.
Emma- I am scared to swim because I will die in the water. I am scared to eat posho.
Isaac- I am not scared of anything.
Richard- I don't like to eat ladybug. Because it can smell bad.
Patricia- I would be scared to eat snakes.

If you give a _____ a _____, he'll probably want a _____ to go with it.
Leonard- If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll probably want a slasher to go with it because it wants to slash the grass. Because it does not want grass in its compound.


Life is moving on quickly these days. It's been three months since I've been back in Uganda which makes seven months of me living in Uganda all together. It's crazy to think about. Each moment here in Uganda has been such a blessing. I am so thankful to have been placed in such a wonderful place in this world. I am thankful to simply be serving in the Lord's army.

Football Saturdays are still continuing, although Teacher Milly kindly allows me to stay with her on Friday nights so that I don't have to pay to go home in the afternoon and return the next morning. The term ends this week, with exams starting tomorrow. Next week I will make report cards and then we will be on about a month long holiday. Erika and I would like to go to the equator or to see some waterfalls during our holiday. You know, some teacher field trips.

Everything is going well! Not anything too exciting to update you on other than the fact that I will be staying here in Uganda until the end of term three which ends in December. I am funded through June...so I will soon be fundraising to stay here the other five months. I'll provide more information on that early May.

Thank you for the continual prayer and support! I miss you all so much and I wish you could be here with me. Mama Sarah and the girls have been gardening like crazy recently and it's reminded me of my mom. I was telling Mama Sarah how much my mom loves to garden and she said that we need to bring her out here to help us! So mom, come to Uganda and help us garden!

Shafiga helping to garden at Graceland

Oh yeah, and we got a new puppy named Gracie