Whirlwind

The action here has been nonstop. Starting with a busy day of playing with the kids and packing for the medical team on Friday (18 May). This morning (21 May) everyone left at 6:15am which means that some of them were awake at 5:00am which means that I was awake at 5:00am this morning….

Let me see…how can I capture all of the wonderful things that have happened so far? Well, Jessica Mumford has been instructing me learning how to teach the boys (Rick, Bosco, Daniel, Francis, and Vincent), and that has been great. I had one day of training and now I have the boys to myself. It is pretty straight forward, but it is a challenge to explain things when to the boys when I am not completely sure what their books have taught them so far. I learned many of the subjects in a very different manner. Sometimes this is an advantage because I can tell the boys the way I learned something to see if it helps them. One of the boys is struggling with fractions in math, but I think that with time he will understand. It has been such a joy to teach them.

Our schedule is:

8:30am-10:30am              First Session

10:30-10:50                       Break

10:50-11:50                       Second Session

11:50-12:00pm                 Break

12:00-1:00                         Third Session

1:00-2:00                            Lunch Break

2:00-3:00                            Fourth Session

Sooo…our mornings are going to be pretty full, but the boys have a really good attitude about their school, so it should be a good first week.

It is strangely quiet here with the medical team out in Namuwongo slums. There are very few quite times here. Either we are doing school, or helping the medical team get ready, or cleaning the house, or cooking, or eating, or ‘mowing’ the lawn, or kicking a ball, or any number of things. It has been a blessing to see everyone pouring themselves into their work.

There is a rumor floating around that the kids will get school off next week so that I can go help on the Medical team! That would be great, but we’ll see what happens.

Please pray for:

-Our work

That in everything we would work hard with the love of God in our hearts. Pray especially for the medical team as they are working really hard under the hot sun.

-The boy’s schoolwork

So they too might work hard and eventually use these skills for the betterment of the kingdom of God.