Welcome to Africa

I am in Uganda. We got our visas just fine (PRAISE GOD). Going to Amsterdam, they didn’t even care we had a passport.

 I am experiencing a bit of culture shock from not having time or opportunity to prepare what to expect when coming to Africa. It is much more third world than I expected (and I am even in the most developed area). So please pray for me as I am still a bit worn out from my intense 9 month bible course. I don’t feel that flexible for adventure and roughing it but would like comforts of home sense I was homesick at the end of SBS. I need supernatural refreshment (even though we jump right into class in the morning).

I will actually be in Jinja for 4 weeks then go on outreach for the next 2 months. They want to split us up into 2 outreach teams. The team that will go to the north will be in the more rural area (sleeping on the ground in a thatched hut). The other team I think will be staying here in Jinja. We still don’t know many details and I don’t even know how official those details are.

* Driving here, we saw a demonstration to prevent/end child sacrifices

* I rode a motorcycle today (common mode of transportation like a taxi)

* To my surprise, my flight from Amsterdam to Uganda landed in Rwanda WHAT!? Yeah, that was confusing when we got on the flight and they say “welcome to Rwanda” (a whole different country). 
*There are soldiers EVERYWHERE