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…a continuation of Hillary’s adventures in part 1 and part 2.

Hello Everyone!

So it’s week two here in Uganda. I definitely love every bit of Africa; the slow pace, the people, the bright colors, and the music. I have so many funny stories to share. But before I do that, here are some prayer requests I have. Two of the toddlers have fallen on rocks and pushed most of their front teeth up into their gums. Sounds crazy? I know… I’m not sure how little children’s teeth can move so far up into their gums just by falling hard, but after seeing it with my own eyes, I am now a believer. Their isn’t really dental services around here and if there are and I don’t know about them the children won’t be receiving any care. So please just pray that their mouths will heal fast and they won’t get any infections in it. (Which will be a miracle since they don’t brush their teeth ever!) Also, two boys have gotten some weird rash/cut on their genital area and right now no-one is sure how or what is causing this. The boys just cry all day and you can see how much pain their in and yet the people here really don’t know what to do about it. Arnold, a little toddler who has the cutest face ever and whos head is shaped like a bicycle helmet (no joke!) is one of them who has this problem. The cutest thing about Arnolds head is that since the orphanage shaves all the boys heads every month Arnold can’t even hide his funny shaped noggin behind any hair J Also, one of the mama’s had a metal clothesline break and hit her eye so she will need prayer as her eye is recovering from that incident. Also keep praying for our health because other volunteers have gotten malaria recently and some other weird sicknesses that no-one diagnosis over here. If you get sick you go to the clinic and they never tell you what you have they just give you some weird medicine and tell you to take it. So I’m really hoping I don’t have to go to the clinic while being here. I’ve gotten quite a few mosquito bites, but none that have led into malaria. (Praise God!)

Here are some funny stories that have happened while being here.

Two days ago, George (my favorite little boy who’s 1 ½ years old) was standing by me as he was waiting for his bath and all of a sudden I felt this warm sensation on my bare foot. Little George thought it would be hilarious to pee on Auntie Hillary’s foot and then when I asked him if he was going su su (Ugandan word for pee) he just started laughing.

Peter a Ugandan man who helps out at the orphanage brought me two x-rays and said this to me in English. “We use these to make fine art” Hahaha in the midst of me trying to ask him if these were important and what he wanted me to do with them, it turns out he wanted me to cut things out of the x-rays to make stencils so that we could put it over paper and let the children paint over them to have shapes come out on the paper underneath. I have now learned a new tool for teaching using old x-rays!

When I was walking home one night, it was just about dusk and there were these 3 cows just standing in the middle of the road. I kept trying to dodge the one with big horns and whenever I walked to one side of the road one of the cows would run across and so we weaved in and out of each other for about 15 minutes as I was walking. Something that you definitely wouldn’t have happen to you everyday in America.

Also, in Uganda whenever you go to shake someone’s hand you have to do this really cool handshake. You go to shake their hand normally then you both move your hands up and then you shake again normally. It’s pretty funny, but I’ll teach you all when I come back!

As for me personally, this time with God has been really amazing. We have a prayer room in our house and I find myself spending more and more time there. God is teaching me a lot about who he’s made me to be, where he wants me to go in life, and how I need to be patient and wait on a lot of things. He’s also teaching me how when I make mistakes he still loves me and hasn’t given up. I really do appreciate everyone’s emails and they definitely make me feel very loved and supported back home so keep them coming!

I hope you are all enjoying America as much as I am enjoying this beautiful country and all the beautiful things in it!

XOXO
Hillary J

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