Today was a day that I can not adequately put into words......emotional, humbling, hard yet great! We started our day by touring the school and medical clinic, what a great ministry they have. Then we moved on to home visits. We traveled out into the villages, down paths that appeared were just a walking path yet our van turned down them. We would stop at an area where we would see a few people and within minutes the crowd would swell to over a hundred at most stops. We would start by someone from our team sharing scripture, then we would sing with them. After that we would hand out needed items, such as clothes, flip flops or veggie seeds. We would also give them candy. A lady at my church donated head bands that she made and the girls LOVED them! Especially the older girls would just glow as we told them they were beautiful! We would take their picture and show them as they do not often see what they look like. The people out of respect and appreciation, as is their culture, would get on their knees or bow to us. At our first stop as we were ready to leave two ladies came to us and each gave us a chicken. (Our ms. chickens are suppose to be dinner for us one night 😜) We stopped at quite a few stops.....the conditions are hard to put into words, often children with no clothes, yet their joy is immense! They shower us hugs, love and appreciation. I do not think anyone could come to Uganda and not completely fall in love with the people!
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