Ice cream, DVDs and Fish and Chips

Unfortunately I've had tonsillitis this week, so unless you're interested in reading a detailed description of our DVD collection, I don't really have much to blog about.

I've managed to make it out of the house twice - once to the doctors, and once last night to go out for a meal because Andrew will be returning to the UK on Monday. It was a really lovely evening and I was glad to be feeling a bit better and to have my appetite back. Of all the things to eat in Uganda, most of us ordered fish and chips! It was really yummy and very filling and we all enjoyed a really lovely evening together.
But for the rest of the week I've watched far too many films, eaten lots of ice cream and slept a lot!

As I mentioned, Andrew (one of the other gappers) will be returning to the UK on Monday. We will all be really sad to see him go and will miss him so much, but we know that this is a decision that he's prayed about a lot and we're all confident in God's plan for him. Its a strange thought that 6 months ago I was planning to leave on this date too. Now that's hard to imagine.
So in honor of Andrew, and because I haven't been able to upload any photos from the past couple of weeks, I'd treat you to a bit of an overview of the past six months.

October

At Heathrow, ready to fly to Uganda. We were all really excited and could never have imagined quite how incredible our experiences would be.

Our first experience of Boda Bodas - I remember being really scared but now we love them!

November

We dressed up in the traditional Ugandan clothing

We began teaching

Receiving mail for the first time was really exciting

We had already built strong relationships and become a big family

December

We visited the Equator and decided to mimic The Beatles

Bungee jumped over (or into!) the source of the Nile

Distributing the Christmas shoe boxes was so special.

And we celebrated Christmas together as a team

January

We enjoyed safari in Murchison Falls National Park

We ran our Goshem mission week

February

We went to the beach at Entebbe

We visited the Smile Farm

We continued helping to build at Blessed Word of Life Church

We carried out sponsorship updates

We dried out the aid

And we celebrated my 19th Birthday

March

We did some more sponsorship updates - this time for the sponsored widows.

We went to Marina's Graduation party and enjoyed the opportunity to get dressed up a bit!

This is the point at which we lost the memory card adapter, so the rest of the photos are stuck on my camera... but in March we also taught at Chosen again, and we started our new project in Goshem, Kuffu, where we've been teaching.
This week all six of us have been back in Kampala so that we could be together for Andrew's last week.

Thank you all so much for your prayers, mail, emails and support over the past six months. Thank you also to everyone who has supported my family and kept them busy. Please keep it up for another three months. I'm sure that its going to be amazing and will go by so fast! God has done so much more that I ever thought he would in the time that I've been here, and I'm looking forward to seeing what else he has planned.

I really really appreciate your prayers. This week I'd love some prayer for...

- Andrew as he returns to the UK. Pray that he would settle back in well, have clarity over God's plans for him and not miss Uganda too much!

- Everyone here as we say goodbye to Andrew - pray that the team would cope well and that we wont miss him too much.

- Health. Please pray that I'll get completely better and that the rest of the team will all be really healthy too.

- Please pray for our work here. Pray that we'll focus on God's work and that we'll all be able to do it really well and to really enjoy it. Pray that as we look into a period where we might be split up for a while that we'll cope well with that and not miss people too much.

Thank you all so much. God bless. 

Lorna