- The building is coming along - if you have facebook, go to my Cornerstone Children's Home and School album to see the progress.
- We receive the Evergreen team tomorrow night. We're so excited! The kids are figuring out that there are more than 23 Americans they don't know. HA! They keep saying, "is Teacher Abby coming?", "Is Marissa coming?", "Is Dina coming?" and they continue naming all the 23 Americans they have met in the past 2 years, thinking there couldn't be that many Americans out there. So, they get to meet 5 more...Seth, James, Cayla, Nick and Chuck. Now they will know there are at least 28 Americans! Please pray for this team as they are coming from COLD weather to HOT days for working on the building. In the past week we have had one day of 111 and one of 112. They will need God's grace to make it. We know He will help them.
- Thanks to three of our friends in America, we took our kids on a great outing to Jinja on Thursday. They got to see Lake Victoria (the first pic is of all of us standing in front of it). The fishermen had just come in from their night's fishing and were mending their nets by the shore - I so felt that I was in the Gospels with Jesus as He walked among them and said, "Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men." There's a picture of them for you too.
- From Lake Victoria, we went to Tip Top Bakery and went on a tour to see how bread is made. The picture is of the first room they took us to where the sacks of wheat flour are in the background. Do you recognize any of the kids?
- Then we went to the source of the Nile River (it's where Lake Victoria ends and the Nile begins). I will send more pictures with another email in a couple of minutes.
- From there, we drove across the bridge and dam over the Nile River where the hydroelectric plant is (the only one in Uganda).
- Then we went to Bujagali Falls, a beautiful waterfall/rapids that, unfortunately is no longer there. Of course, no one told us that. They have dammed it up and now it is a lake. To all of you who have white water rafted down the falls, it's sad. It was a let down to those of us who have been there, but the kids had no idea and had a ball! I will send pictures of them there also.
- For our 7 newer kids (Brenda 2, Doreen, Lisa, Magdalene, Joel, Beatrice and Sarah), this was their first time in a coaster (small bus - 28 seats for 44 of us...so much room for a Ugandan group! They could have fit another 10 in easily.), their first time farther than a few kilometers from Budaka.
- My favorite line of the day: we were in Busembatia (about 45 minutes west of Budaka), many children were wondering out loud about different things they were seeing that they had never seen and I heard this: "Look, even the sun is going with us!" We are broadening their perspectives, for sure!
- Okay, now I will get on to sending more pictures...and posting all our trip pictures on FB (if I have time). So love the 3G network here in Mbale! And electricity (we have had none for 36 hours).
God bless you all. Thanks for praying for us, sharing your thoughts and suggestions, giving of your own resources for these kids and adults of Budaka, and being good email and FB buddies to me!!
Laurie
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