Please listen to this song as you read this post. Hope is Rising by Downhere
After an
entire month, my care package from my parents has finally arrived. The estimated time of arrival was two weeks, so
hope began to deteriorate as to when and if the package would make it to
Kampala. I was ecstatic when I received my
parcel with a Canada Post sticker and my mom’s hand writing on it.
Unfortunately,
this Tuesday was the first time I was able to visit my slum family since the
last time when we found out about Finah’s disappearance. Finah’s mother, Harriet, shared with us that
a few weeks back she received a phone call from some man informing her that he
had her daughter. He told her that he
had Finah as a house girl and said where he was keeping her. Harriet does not know who this man is, and
how he got her phone number. She is very
suspicious of her neighbours and wonders how this man got her number. We do not know whether this man is telling
the truth but this phone call brought us some hope in finding Finah. Harriet is waiting for her brother to come so
he can escort her to this place where Finah might be. I am very encouraged by the hope in Harriet
to continue searching for her daughter. She is a very strong woman and shows great
care and affection for her children. I
ask for you to continue praying for Finah’s safety and for her return back
home. I also ask that you pray for
Harriet and her brother when they go to this unknown and risky area to find
Finah.
On
Thursday, my team ventured out into the slums to visit our two Living Hope
clients. It had rained very heavily the
night before so we prepared to get muddy as we trekked through the slum. We took a public taxi to get to the area where
both of our clients live. We have only
visited our clients once before and last time, we took a different route to get
there. Slums are very tricky to navigate
through, as they are crowded with small huts and narrow pathways. Needless to say, our team couldn’t find our
first client’s home and got lost trudging through the muddy and garbage-laden
slum. After about an hour, we decided to
head back to the main road. Praise the
Lord for as we began to walk back, our client Maria found us and lead us back
to her home. Maria is a very gentle and
hospitable woman and I am looking forward to getting to know her better. We then moved on to our next client Margaret,
a fiery woman who crochets blankets and table runners to provide for her
family. We chatted with her for a bit,
sang some songs for her, read her Psalm 23 (I had to read it in Luganda…
YIKES), and prayed with her. Then
Margaret walked us back to the main road, showing us a much easier route for
next time. Those ladies seriously
blessed us way more than we blessed them.
On Saturday,
we went to Suubi for sports ministry.
After a sun-kissed morning playing volleyball, I was invited to my
friend Prossy’s house for lunch. Here is
a picture of a monkey that we saw out her back window. We have heard that monkeys live in Suubi and
had been hoping to one day see them.
Since this
Sunday was St. Patrick’s Day, Callie and I decided to plan a party for our
house on our day off on Monday. We have
been scheming and conniving over the last week on what kinds of holiday
activities we should do. Below are some
pictures from our St. Patrick’s Day activities.
We forgot
to ask Kevin the night before to dye the pancakes green for breakfast so we
hoped that Kevin would find our little post-it attached to a bottle of green
food colouring. St. Patrick’s Day is not
celebrated in Uganda so we weren’t sure how Kevin would take our note. That poor woman probably thinks we are the strangest
group of mzungus ever.
Kiss Me I
am Irish game: Instead of pin the tail on the donkey, it is pin the lips on the
leprechaun.
Find the
Lucky Charms treasure hunt: We were
hoping that the thunderstorm would stop so that we could go outdoors to do our
treasure hunt.
St Patty’s Day
dinner complete with green Jello.
This week
embarks the halfway point of my time here in Uganda. Whoa does time sure fly! It is a little scary to think about what I
will be doing after 360 and sad to think about leaving all these incredible
people and this beautiful country. I am
trying not to dwell on future plans but remain fully present in my time
here. I am very hopeful about some
exciting future possibilities headed my way. Ya, that last sentence was pretty vague.
Sorry folks!
“Now may
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will
abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
Peace and
love
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