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Hello everyone I hope I can fit in everything I want to say.

Everything has been good. Friday was the last day that I got to see the wheelchair team. Actually It was very sad to see them go, our time seemed very short. They saw 69 people that day which is a lot. Unfortunately a van came when we had already packed everything up. There was nothing we could do, and it was a very sad situation. The most we could do was pray and tell them to come back next year.

Actually I wasn't there very much on Friday. Justin and I were stolen away to go to a village called Pagwini to deliver bricks. Ok actually I didn't do anything... the locals moved all the bricks into the trucks, out of the trucks... I just kinda watched. Typical. Very typical haha. Pagwini is the village that Justin's church will visit when they come. They are going to use the bricks we brought to make a piggery and maybe a latrene. It's really remote, and in the dump truck it took a good hour to hour 1/2 to get there. Man... now I see why having teams here is so exhausting for Aloysius. There is so much work involved!

Haha... actually we had a pretty interesting experience. So we were driving a small dump truck and... as Aloysius put it.... "We drive in to bush to pick rock!" haha...so that means we basically drove deep deep deep into the grass to put a bunch of bug boulders into the back of the truck. It was the funniest thing I have done so far... There was no road, no dirt path.... just tall grass. Hopefully I can download a picture so you can see.

Friday night we had a dinner and said goodbye to the team. It was really nice, I have never had roasted goat before! Saying goodbye is sad. I am going to miss Jill, pastor Greg, and everyone else.

Saturday was a blast. We have had a few african interns here from Mekere University doing sports science... actually Justin and I hang out with them a lot. Anyway, they did their final project Saturday which was an inter church competition. It was SO FUN. :)

It was supposed to start at 10..... of course it didn't start until about one. We did relay running, a 100 meter sprint, a sack race, and a really weird relay at the end. I did the baton relay (They pronounce it Batton, like Batton Rouge) and then I was forced into the 100 meter sprint. Thankfully it wasn't as embarrassing as I thought it was going to be when I was standing on the start line next to tall african women.  I came last, but at least I put up a fight. Then I did the really weird relay with a team of all whites... me, Justin, Cara, and Jake (who are a couple that live in town).

At the end there was a dance competition and of COURSE I danced :) Justin thinks I can't dance, but the Africans liked it. I made it pretty far, but Jake tied with a 60 year old women in the end. This event was so fun... you know, Ugandans really enjoy the simplest things. I appreciate that they don't ever get embarrassed and just enjoy everything. I have been trying to be more like that.

That night Esther told me I was speaking in church the next day. ...... AHH. I wasn't super nervous, but once I was talking it was really intimidating. I just chose to say my testimony and it was like 15mins of talking. I have never done that before. After I spoke, Esther was talking because Aloysius was attending some village church. She talked for sooooo long, but whenever she talks I just have to listen. She speaks with such authority and her wisdom is so rich. She is kinda like a dark chocolate German cake.... Yummm. I miss American dessert.

Speaking of America, Justin and I got dropped at the "Coffee Hut" yesterday. Ok. Weird! It was just like being at home. Really really weird.... I had a wrap with french fries and the fatty food just knocked me out. I eat so healthy here. It's all matoke, rice, beans, fruits, cabbage, that kinda stuff. When I go home it will be so hard to adjust.

Ok I am done. Hopefully it won't be another week, but sooner the next time I update.

Oh and thank you for your prayers. I have started taking my meds at night and it is really helping with the issues I was having. I appreciate that so many of you are thinking about me, it means so much.

This is me and Heather, the one girl intern from Mekere. We have become good friends! I really like her :)

Ok this is what we drove though to get the rock from the bush......

 This is a picture of Esther and Aloysius's home. I sleep in that room with the window on the far right. The ladies are watching dishes... which I finally did this morning! Evertime I ask to help Esther says no no no rest... no no no i will let you do it later. So this morning I didn't have anything to do... so i just did them! Yay! It's just like home really, my appt doesn't have a dishwasher.

 Sack race!!! Justin fell when it was his turn.. hehehe

So little Joshua was being really stubborn on Saturday. He really really really wanted the microphone. Like really wanted it.