Back to Kampala!

The next school term has started here in Uganda, and with it, our schedule is changing. The team won't be staying in Zirobwe as much for a while, but we still go every Sunday for church and Sunday school. In light of those changes, we've been in Kampala this week. It's definitely been a change of pace for the team, but it's been fun.

This is what happens when my Sunday school boys
get a hold of my camera!

One of the girls from New Brainstorm

To start off the week, Sunday school went really well. We had 10 kids memorize our weekly memory verse and for some reason or another, we had more time to hang out with the kids afterwards than normal. It's so fun to get to know the kids in my class a little better and to notice their personalities and tendencies. Plus, they're able to open up to and relate to us more. Also, just want to say that my class is awesome! On Monday visited Sanyu Babies' Home as always. Then, on Tuesday, we went to Victory Primary School and did a feeding program. We do our normal program for the kids and then feed them porridge we've prepared. The kids there are SO full of energy! We also went to Davemi Primary School to do a program. Davemi is on top of a huge hill in Kampala, but the view isn't the only beautiful thing there! The kids are so sweet and intent on listening. I remember at one of our programs there earlier in the trip, they remembered the lesson from a whole month before! Wednesday we did a program at Katalemwa, the children's hospital, and a Lunch Hour Fellowship at Clive College (a local secondary school). Thursday we visited the Babies' Home again and then had the opportunity to do a program with the neighborhood kids. Friday we went to one of my absolute favorite Kampala projects - New Brainstorm Primary School. It's one of the more impoverished schools we visit, but the kids are such a joy! They're so sweet and like to write us letters or make bracelets or other small gifts for us. Sometimes I wonder how kids with so little can be so generous and loving, but the kids at New Brainstorm are exactly that. Anyways, I really enjoyed finally going there after such a long time; it was a blessing. Our final project of the week was another Lunch Hour Fellowship at City Side Secondary School. 

Packages from home!!! 

I also had the privilege to receive some packages from home this week! Included in it were several letters and cards, a t-shirt from my youth group with all their signatures on the back, and a shirt from my church family & friends with their signatures & a little note to me. It was such a blessing to hear from back home and receive that encouragement from my family at home. God has definitely shown me how blessed I am by my family and friends. They're such an amazing support system.

There's not really much more I have to say at this point, but I would like to share a scripture that's been on my heart this week:

When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,

I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.

You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.

Whom have I in heaven but you?

And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Those who are far from you will perish;

you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.

But as for me, it is good to be near God.

I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.

Psalm 73:21-28

Blessings!