The Rush.

       When i was 12 me and my friends would go to the gas station and buy 2 liter drinks of say 'mountain dew' or something else loaded with caffeine. Then we would wait until we were about to fall asleep and just down the whole drink and get a mad sugar rush for about an hour or two till we would all collapse. That's about what is going on right now. We have 4 and 1/3 days left in kampala before we have to leave and we are just working round the clock to wrap everything up that we need to finish here.
       Why the load? When we first got here we had a few things that were set in stone that we knew that we would be completing, but we were also allowing God to lead us if there were other areas we could be serving. So now we have all of the connections, which have been a huge blessing to us, and we are trying to complete the task of supporting them with video and pictures. It is exciting though, to find out the next little piece at a time of what God wants us to do.
       Change of pace and surroundings. Northern Kenya. Tuesday morning Ben and i will board a bus that will take us all the way to Nairobi, Kenya - a 16 hour bus ride. From there we will pick up Erin Gamble, the completion on our team that will be here in africa this summer. Let me tell you - i am so pumped for what Gods got planned for us. All i understand of where we are going is from a few conversations with George Tissire. We are passing everything,  going a little farther and stopping at....well, nowhere. It will have whole new challenges from the city slum life that we have been around, and both Ben and i are full fledged ready for whatever is in store. That's the update of our schedule..

      Waking up. To shift gears i would love to paint you a picture. First off, we love where we are. We live currently in a room that has the dimensions of about smallxnarrow with 3 or 4 other guys. The complex is strait up in the slums. But has its own environment. Abby Tracy was the one that connected us with the place to live and they have been the most generous people to us, allowing us to stay for free and giving us whatever they have available. We love them all. That being said...
We sleep sailor style. A triple bunk with just enough room to lay in it, not sit, not crouch, just lay. I sleep in the middle with Ben on the bottom bunk and there is one other uncle that sleeps on the top bunk. Usually on a school day the boys wake up to get ready for school at o say about 4 lightyears before the sun even thinks about rising. That or at 5:51 on the dot. Chores start then which includes washing the floor, ironing clothes, cleaning shoes. And yelling constantly. shoot. If i had to do chores before school everyday i'd be ticked too. I cant say that i have any idea what they yell about considering its in a different language, sometimes i would love to know just for a second so that i could yell too, but most of the time it's better i dont know, because it would just make my morning to find out that i was woken up over a pair of socks.
     Either way i actually conquered that element and somehow found a way to train myself to sleep through most of the yelling. But being a master at something is never fun, thats why the uncle started sleeping above us. Now its a party, because right at 6:15 ish just after i have fallen back to sleep from the initial earth quake of noise the boys cause, he wakes up. Were you ever bored as a kid and tried to make your bed without getting out of it?, well i know one little boy that did. So at 6:25 just like a can of paint at home depot i am put in the tumbler for 10 to 15 minutes while the bed is being made right above me. Then around 6:50 he undoes the mosquito net that he tucked in, to put his bag back on the bed once or twice depending on the day. Lets sum it up. I now do devos in the morning because its either read about how much God loves me or plot ways to strap my fellow uncle roomate to his bed while he sleeps.  Life is good.
   I do love it here and the people that i am around and i thank God alone for the blessing that i have been given in my health (after malaria that prayer started) and the new family that i have become a part of in the Makerere, Kivulu, Childrens Home.
Andrew
L4L Africa team.
ps Ben and i both read Romans and now are starting to study Acts today was chapter 2. If you want to jump on board i would love to hear some of your feedback on what you have learned from the book. Thanks for reading.