Africa/Europe Trip 2013 : March 13 - Sharon, Working at Church, & Bugiri

From my journal:

Last night, we pretty much went to bed as soon as we got home. Then at 10:47 (Sharon just told me the exact time), Sharon started hurling over the side of her bed. It was quite nasty. I thought she was for some reason pouring water over the side of her bed and then I looked up and saw her leaning off her bed. And then the smell hit me…… Phoebe came and cleaned it up and Junia sprayed bug dope cuz it smells better than puke. Sharon was back asleep like right away. Then this morning, Sharon was all loopy. We were all sitting on our beds when we just woke up and Sharon was sitting on her bed talking to her socks. It was so random!!!!!! And then we were sitting in the living room (right by our bedroom) and she was in the bathroom and she goes marching by us into the room and says “OK! Anyone need help?” It was really funny. Today, I worked at the church. For a while I was nailing the mesh together but I was really slow so I moved scaffolds and swept. In order to keep the dust down, I poked holes in the top of a water bottle and filled it with water and then sprayed the dust. During a break, one of the brothers cracked open a jackfruit. It was sooooooooooooooooooo good!!!!!!! When I get home, I probably won’t eat fruit at all cuz it won’t be the same. We went to Sister Trixie’s house for lunch and now we are on our way to service in Bugiri. It’s kinda funny. On the highway here, they have speedbumps. I love it here!!!!! It seems like our house is kinda boring compared to the others though. Like everyone else has all these stories of helping make breakfast and stuff. We just got pulled over for passing on a solid yellow line and Bro Emmanuel said they would have retained him and made him pay a 4000 shilling ($20 USD) fine but because we were in the car, they let him go.

Later: The service was great. Dad preached on Perfect Strength in Perfect Weakness. After church, we went to the pastor’s house. His grandmother or great grandmother was there and came out to meet us. She is over 120 years old! After having our dinner, we drove home. It took a really long time and I fell asleep. Which was bad because I was in the front seat and I was supposed to be keeping Bro Emmanuel awake… After we got home, I had to use the washroom. So I went over to the bathroom, went in and was in the process of shutting the door when I looked over at the toilet and lo and behold, there was a huge, mean, ferocious chicken!!!!!!! It was giant!!! Like as big as the toilet!!!! I didn't scream though. I just quickly backed out (slipping and sliding the whole way cuz the floor was wet and my flip flops were sliding all over) and ran to my room and sat down and told Hannah what happened to me. Then Phoebe came into our room and was like what just happened? So I told her and she laughed so hard. But then she went and put the chicken out and cleaned up the poop. Everyone was laughing at me :/ I almost slept good that night. Other than the visions of chickens that burst on my sight...... There was a really cool thunderstorm though....