It's our day off again but this one's special - it's Becky's 19th birthday! To celebrate, we're having soda (fizzy drinks) with lunch and then going swimming at a really posh hotel in Mukono :D And guess what that means....... A SHOWER!!!!!! I'm going to wash my hair five times and BASK in the amazing invention that is running hot water. I barely even remember what a tap looks like!! Ahhh I'm so excited; in case you haven't realised, I CAN'T WAIT to get there!!!!!!!
OK so this weekend... Saturday we had a tidy up and sorted out undies and did the usual slow morning stuff. We had a pretty late night on Friday cos we watched this awesomely terrible soap called La Tormenta with the family and kids. It's our little evening tradition now :) From Thursdays - Sundays it's on at 8pm so we watch it before/during dinner. It's Spanish so they've dubbed it terribly and the people in it reeeally can't act. It's hilarious! Right now, Trinidad is wandering blind in the undergrowth, Enrique (I kid you not) is trying to kill Maria-Teresa's Dad (to steal his land) and Santos Torrialba has been arrested for attempted murder even though he's innocent. It's classic, we should have it in England! Maybe you guys could Youtube it or something, just to see how hilarious it is... Anyway, after that we played Uno and cards with the family so we had a late night. Saturday morning we had an awesome prayer time, just sitting with God and hearing from him. We keep getting Bible passages to read about faith which is pretty cool -
Romans 5 vs1-5: "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." HOW AWESOME?! He is so with us, which really is an encouragement.
Psalm 37 vs 3-7: "Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes."
Then kids club on Saturday. We played a lot of games like 'In the boat on the land' (Ugandan classic) and the balloon game, which is rapidly becoming a favourite! We had less kids this week but still about 30 of them. Mama Rachael is such a good translator, we thank God for her :) The whole family are a ridiculous blessing! They look after us and show us love ALL the time! Junior is the most awesome boy ever. He runs around like a maniac, snores reeeally loudly and has this hilarious concentrating face where his tongue just hangs out of his mouth! So funny :) Then Saturday afternoon we had girls group which went amazingly well! We had loads of girls, probably about 25 and had to use a classroom in the local school cos there were too many to fit into our tiny house! We did testimonies and sang some songs (they always laugh at us... can't think why) and a lot of them asked to see us in private so they could share their testimonies and have some prayer and advice. What a privilege! We've decided to do a series on strong women of God in the Bible so that they can really learn what precious jewels they are, and how strong they are. I'm really excited about that! Saturday evening was more games and La Tormenta with the famild :D Mama Rachael made beans and chapattis for dinner, which is one of our fave meals!
Then church on Sunday. It was insanely long again, it's about 4 hours including Sunday school. I do miss church at home! We don't get fed much at church here, so we have to make sure we do our own personal Bible reading and group Bible studies and worship/prayer times. It's good discipline but I'm really aware that we could always do more. They have a time in church for the "choirs" to come up and sing, and we are now one of the choirs! There's only a few people in church so pretty much everyone is in a choir... We're officially called "Frankie and the Eagles" because I get called Frankie so much here. People just can't say Flick or Felicity very easily, so I'm widely known as Frankie. I'd say I probably respond to Frankie more than my actual name now! We got the church up on their feet and dancing which was cool... We might be going to a bigger church in Kampala next week to do some songs, introduce ourselves and preach. Please pray that God puts a passage/message on one of our hearts so that we can be prepared and go there in the Spirit.
We were meant to do community evangelism in the afternoon but we had a long afternoon at home instead cos Benedict wanted us to rest, so we swept and mopped the whole house (even behind the furniture which was FILTHY cos neither of the other teams cleaned there at all!) and rearranged all the furniture in the living room. It looks a lot more spacious, clean and just ours now :) We did our washing too, we're turning into proper little housewives!
So there you go, that's the basic update so far. Oooo exciting stuff on Friday on the way home from Mukono - we had TWENTY-FIVE people in one matatu (minibus/taxi thing) which is only meant to hold 14 people!! And only 3 of the 25 were children... Crazy times! Plus the driver was going at about 70mph on a 30mph road; I really did think we might have died. Please pray for road safety while we're here, and the general health of all 5 of us!
Right, I'm going to put some photos up on Facebook cos it's just not working on this silly thing... Enjoy! Thank you for reading again :) Lots and lots of love
Flick
xXx
Us in our new African clothes with Benedict and Mama Rachael :)
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