Just picked up the rents from Entebbe
After the craziness that was Monday, Tuesday was a bit more relaxed to say the least. Went to CRO again: it was proper cool this week. After Monday I found it so refreshing being around these kids, I feel so blessed every time I go to see them. Getting to know a few of them quite well now, building loving, encouraging relationships that build these kids up is so important, especially when the rest of their world is just knocking them down. Took the afternoon off to recover from Monday and then went to Madam’s for tea. Good day.
Wednesday was a standard office day. Then on Thursday I preached again at CRO. Spoke about how God is the only thing we can rely on in this world to be eternal and to never leave us or forsake us. And about how drugs can only give us a temporary high, but when we rely fully on God and trust in him, we will always be satisfied. It’s generally really good just to put loads of encouraging messages in when talking to them, just to speak life into their lives. Preaching again this Sunday at Bethel
On Friday we had JENGA praise and worship at our house so we again had all the JENGA staff round just to seek God for a couple of hours. Afterwards, there was some excitement. I was gonna stay at home and work for a couple of hours and then come into the office but Sam needed to work from the office so he went off. A couple of minutes after he left I just heard ‘Dan, Dan, look it’s a Cobra!!’, I legged it to see and saw Robert our Askari beating the crap out of this Cobra with a massive stick, a bit disappointing, but then after we left it for a couple of minutes it began to wriggle again, however in couldn’t strike because it was too hurt. So Robert killed it with a Panga and I wondered when I was ever gonna get the chance again to hold a wild snake, so I grabbed it off Robert. It was pretty cool because it still had muscle twitches so it was wriggling around in my hands. Felt a bit of food in its belly as well. Cool snake. I offered the Ugandans to hold it but they were scared, they thought it could still kill them even though it had no head. Right…
About an hour later I got a call from Ali who had just left saying that there was another one. This time it was personal, so I got MY Panga. Apparently it had seen the other snake and made some squeaky noises and then it arched back ready to strike. This one was as thick as your wrist and 5 ft long, a bit of a beast. It legged it and we burnt some rubber next to their nest, not been seen since. Still pretty cool though.
On Saturday I experienced the first part of my first Ugandan wedding, and I got absolutely done! Leah, JENGA’s finance director is getting married on the 17th but her introduction (engagement) was on Saturday. Sam and I suited up and went down for around 11.45, 45 minutes late, however when we got there it hadn’t started yet so we sat and waited. During that time Vinnie came up to me and said that I had to prepare a 5 minute speech on behalf of JENGA for Leah, I was alright with this, he gave me a bit of time and it was only five minutes long. Easy. However then he came back and told me that the family said that would be too short, so I should speak for twenty minutes. Now I'm worrying. I don't know enough about Leah to talk for 20 minutes! So throughout the next eight hours I'm figuring out something that I could say; I've never been less inspired in my whole life. It comes to around 730 and someone makes the suggestion that we leave, so I'm right out the door (metaphorically). On the Pick-up back Tiff reveals to me that it was all a practical joke. Gutted. He got me good...
So Sunday was the day I went to pick up the parents. Went down with Pastor Sam in the car, sharing much banter on the way of course. Arrived at Entebbe Airport to pick them up and then went back to Airport Guest House, probably the nicest place I've stayed at so far this stay. This morning we came back to Mbale and went for a walk to Chat 'n' Chino's, a really nice coffee place in town. Really looking forward to this next week hanging out with them, God's gonna do some cool stuff. Please pray for them.
Named this 'waiting...' not only because it seems like I've spent most of my week waiting doing nothing but also because I'm really trying to spend more time waiting on God for what he wants for me both while I'm here and when I get back home. God's teaching me to wait.
Have a lovely week.
Dan x
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