This morning we woke up at 7:30 or 8. We went and watched Sis Sarah make pineapple juice. It was pretty cool. She cut up the pineapple, put it in the blender, added a bottle of water (usually they would just use their normal water but she used bottled water for us so we could drink it), and blended it. It was delicious!!!! For breakfast, I had bread with peanut paste again. That stuff is amazing!!!!! Oh and we had mango. Which is WAAAAAY better than Canadian mango. Then we went to the church. We were the first ones there. We got there at 9:30 and the boys weren't even there yet. They got there at like 9:45. Then I left with Sis Sarah Ibale, Sis Sarah (who I was staying with) and some other brother. [For the purpose of this blog, I will call Sis Sarah Ibale Sis Sarah and Sis Sarah who I was staying with Mama Sarah]. I went to the market with the sisters. It was super cool! It was like the ones that you read about in like the middle east or something. Super cool!! And the dirt here is red and so are the puddles. Which is pretty cool too. After we bought what we needed, we went and picked up Esther W. We had no clue what was going on or where we were going. So that was totally a new adventure for us... We ended up going to Sis Julianne's house to help her make lunch for the group. She is a new believer. She is really sweet and epic. And funny. She really liked me and she was trying to hook me up with her brother. Then one of other sisters told her that black people and white people can't marry. She was like "What?? I'm speechless!". It was really funny. We went out and looked at their animals and stuff too. They have chickens, cows, turkeys and pigs. Sis Julianne lives on the land of a prison and there were inmates at her house washing the dishes. She said it was only the good ones who aren't in for super bad things. Her husband is the warden. He is not a believer yet. Sis Julianne is praying for him daily that God will save him. They have no children. Well they had one but she was born with a hole in her heart and she died at 1 year and 9 months. The doctors told them she wouldn't live past a year so the last 9 months of her life were a great miracle. They are trying to have another child but it is really hard for her. When we were making lunch, I felt kinda useless when we were making lunch cuz I didn't know how to do much. I ended up just making the juice. After we ate lunch, all us girls loaded up in a van and went to a maternity ward at a hospital. It was really cool. We even saw the delivery room. Luckily nobody was actually giving birth. There was one lady in labour though.... There was a lady there who had just had triplets and she was up and walking around! There were twins in the NICU (which here they just call the nursery) who were triplets but the third one died. The babies in the the NICU were so small!!! Like their arms are smaller than my thumb! There was a mom there, who looked really young so we asked the sister who was giving the tour how old she was. She said "she wrote 16 on her paper. But she is probably 14 or something." Apparently, over here, if you are not 16, the government will take away your baby. So if you are under 16 and you have a baby and you want to keep it, you just should write that you are 16 on your paper and the hospital won't ask questions. After we finished our tour, we went to church. The church we went to was down a road that is pretty much like the trails that we go quadding on in Grande Prairie.... We first went to a school. It was called Exodus Primary School. Dad greeted the kids and talked for a bit and then we sang a couple songs. Then we quickly toured the school. It is very different from our school.... There are up to 74 students in 400 square foot classroom and in their dormitories (because here all the schools are boarding schools), they sleep two or three to a bed. [To find out more about Exodus School, go to: http://biblewayacademy.org/uganda/]. After touring the school, we went a few more miles down the road to the church where Dad preached. After church we went to Bro Amon's house for a meal. Jonathan drank three Mountain Dews. I wonder how he will sleep tonight...
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