Goodbye Uganda

Well what a crazy last week and a half it has been. Friday we went to work and I spent the morning with Steven, one of our suubi babies who cut his tongue and had to get stiches. Then I spent the rest of the day
with Agnes a little girl who is malnurished and has been doing very poorly, is not expected to live long. So i spent the day with her, it was so much fun and she loved the attention, she needs it. Its not unusual for babies to get depressed when they loose their parents or in agnes' case don't see there parents often (she was just taken untill she gets better) Any ways, Agnes has HIV, TB and is extremly malnurished so please pray that he gets better. Another little boy, Kenneth, who is also very malnurished and has a bloated stomach is doing very bad as well, his stomach keeps growing but nothing else is gaining any weight. He is 4 years old and if he falls on his stomach he could die. Last week he fell but landed on his nose, so praise God that he is still here and just pray that he would get healthy. Other then those ones all the babies are good as far as we've heard. We are leaving for Suubi tonight for the next couple nights to spend as much time with them before we leave Uganda, which is already on Saturday and we will take a bus to kenya and visit monica and david again which we are both really excited for. So last week we had the privilage to go to Gulu (northern uganda) we found out on friday afternoon and where on our way saturday morning. Gulu was amazing, we got to go to church there, spent a few days in the babies home, falling in love with more babies (sigh) and then on wednesday we raged (quite literaly) to the watoto childrens village. To get an idea of what this trip was like lets imagine that there are 7 people stuffed into an itty bitty car, then lets imagine that we are in africa on dirt roads at the best of times. now lets imagine gynormous wholes, here and there with some
massive speed bumps ever little while, and for fun lets throw in some pot holes. Now that the scene is set
imagine that a huge fast scary monster is chasing you, casuing you to go through said road way to quickly. FOR 1 HR! fun? oh yes :| anyways we got to the village and where quickley toured around the schools by a volunteer who was working up there. And of course being surronded by kids :) and then we went back!!! After words we went on a tour of living hope where they help woman who are single mothers who have HIV. It was so cool to get a tour and see all they do, disiple ship classes, day care for the womans babies and teach them practical skills so they can provide for themselves (sewing, making peanut butter). The next day the 6 of us where invited to go to a refugee camp where watoto does a camp to help the people deal with all that they've been through. There where 2800 people there!! they where so happy that we came and danced, did dramas, and sang for us it was so cool. We even got to here a couple of testimonies, God is so good. Since coming back from gulu, we have said way to many goodbyes. Andy (from NZ) left on tuesday, Lina, Tone, Kristine and Amy (from Norway) left last night- that one was the hardest one yet because we've been together for the last 4.5 months, and today we say goodbye to a couple babies and tomorrow we say goodbye to the rest, i'm already a mess- i wish we had more time, but i doubt there would ever be enough time. This week we had to say another goodbye, a little boy, 3 years old, named Cooper passed away this week. He had a blood clot that stopped his heart, so we all went to his memorial, it was very sad, and is so hard to understand why something like that would ever happen, only God knows. Please pray that we make it through Saturday as its going to be very hard. Please also pray for Agnes and Kenneth as their health is not good. God bless and we shall see you all in 2.5 weeks
-Christina