Nov. 22 - A truck for ladies to travel in

 

Ministry Partners,

Rain, rain and more rain! It rained all night and continued into this morning.

It was wonderful to be able to rest on good mattress last night but when I awoke, I found we had no power and it appears, as I look out my window, that there is no power in this area. I am thankful for the large window in my room but some of the other rooms have no windows and are dark and because it is so overcast outside, there is no sunshine to come through that window. Not sure, I have ever written about it but when it gets dark or overcast in Africa, it is DARK for sure.

Today is the one day I had to sort all our supplies and prepare things for storage, deciding what stays here and what goes to Tanzania with us in a few days. The rest of the days between now and then are filled with prison crusades and a church service, until 3-4pm that day.

As I went through some photos from yesterday this photo reminded me of just one of the very different things they do here than we do in the America since many here do not have a personal car. 

When I saw this truck yesterday it was "loaded" with women in their fancy Ugandan dresses. It was evident that they were traveling out of town for a very fancy meeting or party. A number or years ago they traveled in such a manner to a church service I was holding.

Alfred ordered breakfast for us at 8am so we will see what the staff here has to say about the electricity being out. There have been times when the house has lost power and they just had to purchase more for us. So unlike America, where we use power and then get a bill, here you buy a certain amount of power and then use it until it is depleted. We were told that then person with the phone code to order electricity had misused the code so the owner reset the cope and fired that employee so the new person did not have that code and could not order more electricity when it went out late last night about 11pm. They came promptly purchased more electricity for us.

Pastor Aaron had no duties today so he went to see his wife and children who live locally. He has been away working in Rwanda.

After breakfast, Alfred headed to town to do some final IRM banking and other errands like having the parking brake adjusted. Aaron discovered that it was not holding yesterday. We need to have the van in the best shape possible to take into Tanzania.

The two house keepers came while was sorting supplies to clean and make beds for us. They clean the tile floors EVEY DAY and keep our place so very nice. I cannot imagine mopping all these tile floors every day. I am so very thankful for them.

It was 4 pm when I finally finished sorting and putting things into old suitcases to be stored in the storeroom here. When we return from Tanzania, they will be moved to Alfred’s place in a locked room. He currently has it rented for a school.

Well, that is pretty much all for today. If Alfred come in with big news I will add it to tomorrow's blog.

We visit 2 prisons tomorrow, please pray for the prisoners to have open hearts for the Gospel and for the team to have a fresh anointing from the Holy Spirit.

That none would be lost,

Arlene