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The days are all jumbled together and I had to ask someone what day we were on. This morning we went straight to the orphanage and had service. There's this little boy Matthew that we met the first day in Kampala. He was with bishop and is an orphan from the orphanage. We were told that he was sad and lonely so mama bishop took his with  her for a few days. He is back at the orphanage and let me just tell you, ya boy can dance. Haha. I have video of him I hope I can show you. It's great! Lol. 
Service was really good. They ( including the children) started singing Jesus loves me in Lugandan and the spirit of god fell I that place. The children worship to passionately. Imagine 3-8 year olds weeping with eyes squinted and closed, arms lifted high praying to Jesus. Breathtaking. 
I didn't stay in the service for long because I went help Ronnie and mandy with medical assessments. This made me see things in a while new way. Before they  were children with beautiful faces. Today they still have beautiful faces but I have seen for myself that some of those smiles cover great physical pain. I saw everything from what we believe was AIDS to earache (due to large cysts ) and cellulitis.  One little baby (about 6 mos) hadn't had a bowel movement in a month.  Many many children have irregular heart beats. One little girls heart would stop beating for 2 or three seconds and then start again.   Just about all the children have worms in their bellys. I was able to listen to them with a stethoscope. It sounds like a plastic bag being crumpled. One lady came to see us and she had huge tumor on her neck. Another had a large lump in her breast which is probably cancer. She is omly 21 with a 3 mos old. The heart wrenching part of it is that there is absolutely no medical help to treat these issues. Mothers would bring their babies and just look at us desperately wanting someone to just help their child ( these women are from surrounding village). I've always heard these stories but seeing them and being the one they ask for help from makes it real. The need to overwhelming but I just remember that anything is possible with god and that although I'm only one, he can use me and I'm part of a group of people that can change these children's lives. I'm willing to be used however he wants me to be used. 

We again ate at the bishops house  and the. Went back to the orphanage to start playing with the kids. We weren't playing long before it started pouring. It was like hurricane weather. We all ran to the bus to wait it out and the kids went into the church for worship. ( btw they have church basically all day)   We were on the bus when I realized, " why are we inhere and not there?"  So after convincing the bishops brother that it was ok to go ( he didn't want me to get wet) I ran to the sanctuary. The kids were jumping and laughing in the dark to music and drums and singing. It was awesome. We jumped in the middle of the, and danced our hearts out. THE BEST MOMENT OF THE TRIP!  We danced for about 40 min or so. Only a few of us were in there but we had so much fun. The kids imitate everything you do so I had a lot of fun making funny faces and dance moves and the imitated each one. The kids just want to get any attention from us. They soak it up. 

I'm blogging in an Indian restaurant next to our hotel. We are sitting here with everyone from the trip talking about our families and today. I just had chicken friend rice which was delicious and Goat! Yes, I ate goat! It's not horrible but not something I would order or eat again. We have some good pics of me shay Ashley and Ronnie eating it for the first time. Lol
Tomorrow we are going back to the orphanage and playing with the kids again. We are also going to baptize about 120 of the children!  I can not wait for that. 

Till next time! 
Goon night from Africa :)












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