7 weeks in...

Evenin'

Hope this finds you well after having had a good week! Here's how my week went.

On Saturday Sam and I went down to Saturday morning Football with Michael. It was a great one because we were able to give all the kids brand new kits, mostly thanks to the work of Kit Aid. So instead of Skins vs. Shirts, it was Reading vs. Guernsey. It made the game better i reckon, the kids really loved getting them and seemed to play more professionally than usual. Also, I managed to embarress Sam with a bit of a Craig Bellamy magic. I mugged him as he was calmly passing back to the goalie... then shot wide with my left, OH GOOD! We then got Mendazi for the kids and headed shopping before crashing at home. Then we welcomed Paul back from the West with a beautifully cooked tea.

Bit of a standard Sunday, I went to bethel church again. Beginning to get more into the swing of things at church now, getting to know people and that. Good times. Then lunch at the Elgon. I loved the fact that we go there so often that the waiter knew my drink - "I'll have a..." "Stoney?" Regular.

Monday was a fun and successful day. We had the Monday Morning Meeting, however Tiff re-named it the "Monday Morning Morman Meeting" because me and Sam both dressed in Black suit trousers and white shirts, hilarious... Then after many moons have passed since we started designing it the Jenga News-update was sent off. Victory. Now the Prayer update... Then I went to a new place! Sam has been commsioned to design the JENGA Christmas card with means taking loads of pictures in different places, so acted as tag-a-long. We went to Musoto, one of JENGA's three main areas of work. Sam and I voted that we'd ride in the back of the pick-up, poor shout. We didn't see the massive black rain-clouds up ahead and got our Morman attire soakd. Aidah, one of the staff, lives in Musoto so we dropped her off and then Madame Rose acted as tour-guide. We visited the JENGA bore-holes and Sam took photos, whilst I got mauled by kids.

Early on Tuesday Sam and I went with Andrew, a JENGA staff member working with secondary education and goat projects, to visit the goats so Sam could take more photos. This meant taking a boda a bit of the way up Wanale. However, I got the crap Boda driver who was slow and didn't know where he was going, so we got lost and he got angry. The view from the goatery(?) was lovely, it over-looked Mbale on one side, and you could see the waterfall on Wanale pretty well on the other. What was pretty entertaining was the way Andrew described their breeding programme, they tie a mummy goat to a shed and let the daddy goat "service" her. In the afternoon I continued with the Prayer update, which is going well after learning much from doing the newsletter. We went round to GJH again for games night. Paul boguth me and Sam Pangas (machetes)! Used on wednesday night to kill a mouse. So now we feel very manly. Then in the I disgraced myself. Paul encouraged us to play Iris snap. Like normal snap but with the added rules that the first player says 2 then 3,4,5... as you go round, if the card you play is the one you say, there is also a magic card, when it's put down you snap, you also do 2 hands if a double comes up. Paul described it as though it's pretty much impossible to lose, however about 10 mins in I began to collect some cards, clearly not that good at it, I collected some more, and some more, until Sam had one and I had the rest. I somehow managed to lose. Oh dear. I won't be playing again in a hurry.

On Wednesday the Christmas card production took us to Namatala. We visited Violet again took some photos of her and her legend of a nephew Levi, visited her house again, she insisted on buying us drinks, again. Then she took us to visit mary's house (mentioned in a previous post), her house is now roofed and she is living in it, which was great to see.

On Thursday we went to Tororo to go to Andrew's father's Burial. The burial was pretty interesting, it was an open casket so some people got the opportunity to see the body. It was great to be able to support Andrew at that time, he and peter seemed to really appreciate it. On Thurdsday night we had our first edition of Mzungu worship, I led it round at Tiff's house, it was just a really cool time with God and hopefull we'll continue it.

Today we did some more sorting! The garage at our place is pretty much a mess and we didn't know what was in there so we got it all out, arranged it, and put it back in again. Then me and Sam went out to Nurali's for lunch, had a really great chat about how we were each doing and then did a little planning of the possible preaching around churches, we reckon we'll do a two-part series on accountability, so please pray for this.

Had to rush the last little bit because just about to go out for a curry!

Have a lovely Friday night. x

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