This sign is on the main road to Jinja.  The Jinja Branch chapel is to the right.  It is very neat and beautiful.  Last Sunday there were five baptisms and it was pouring rain outside.  The floor turned a lovely red before everyone went home and quite tracking dirt every where.

This is the Jinja Branch Chapel.  Last Sunday there were only two vehicles in the parking lot.  Ours and one other.
Everyone else either walks or hires a boda  (Motor cycle) to drive them here.
Check out Rand is driving on the wrong side of vehicle
(right side for Uganda)

This is Juliana Nyangoma.  She hopes to become a public administrator.  She is filling out her application for PEF.  Rand is working at another computer and Roger, the District Clerk is at the last computer

Rand is meeting with Bugembe's Branch President to get an application for the Women over 31 Endowment.
We administer this program but it is not under Perpetual Education.  It is a Relief Society Endowment that gives the very poor women money to advance their education.

This is the Relief Society room where the sisters meet for their
meeting. This room also doubles for holding baptism
 behind the double doors every Sunday.

The other end of the Relief Society doubles for the kitchen.
Quite versatile wouldn't you say?

This is the living room/dining room to our apartment.  The windowed wall is half a circle.  It makes the room look bigger but is hard to arrange furniture in.  To the Left is our patio and to the right the master bedroom

This is the view from the balcony.  It looks directly West and every sunset is magical.  The signs you can see are on the main road between Jinja and Kampala.

This is what our bed is like inside the net.  So glad to be able to sleep without the worry of bugs chewing on us.   I'm not very good at getting in and out of the netting still and making the bed is a major pain.

If you come to visit this would be your bedroom.  Right now it is where we hang up the washed clothes to dry.

This is our in home office.  We do a lot of our PEF work here.  Out the window on the left is some sort of Christian/African church.  They start chanting every morning at 5:30 AM.  They make a good alarm clock but the timing isn't very versatile.  If you wanted to sleep in - too bad

These are the Woods.  They know Uncle Jack and his kids as they're from Idaho.  They were our guests in Guru and joined got to Calebra about an hour before us.  They had all kinds of pictures of giraffe and zebras that we missed coming later.

Luckily this is fake and we've not seen any real ones

Zone conference at Mbale.  The Jacksons, Andreses and missionaries along with some branch leadership and their wives

This is our office in Kampala.  Rose is in the back as the CES secretary.  Rand is conferring with Ann who is the PEF volunteer.  She knows everything and everyone, a huge help and blessing in our life

Moving again.  Rand was exhausted hauling everything down three flights of stairs.  The missionaries helped move down the PEF desk and some of the furnishings that were to go with us to the new apartment in Jinja

Our truck backed up to the apartment we live in for a couple weeks in Kampala

We don't know what our apartment is in the Restless Development or what it means but it is pretty new and typical of Uganda

We go walking every morning along these roads

Road in front of our compound

Rand entering compound.  The guard is sitting there ready to assist.  We have a fairly long drive down to our apartment with high walls and barbed wire along the top

We usually forget the camera when we go walking in the morning.  Here is Rand loving the banana s hanging over the wall

We wonder if any of the members of the church live in this housing development not far from the Kampala highway.  We live on the other side of the highway

This is a termite mound.  This one is kind of small.  They are all over the country, probably one reason they don't build much with wood.  They don't destroy the mounds because some people harvest the termites for food.  Wonder how many you need to fill a teaspoon?

This is Brother and Sister Harris.  They used to live in Jinja and came for business.  We got to know them at the apartment in Kampala.  Sis. Harris is the mission nurse.  They took us on a drive that they liked because some times you see monkeys.  We didn't see any but we got a gorgeous view of the Jinja district

You can see Lake Victoria in the far distance

We then drove to Lake Victoria where we walked out on the pier.  We didn't use the stairs because this man was washing his clothes at the bottom of the stairs and made access very muddy

Check out the large knife sitting on the bench in front of this man.  He looked scary but when we walked back to the car I said "Hi" and he was all smiles.  What a relief

Flew all night from London to Johannesburg.  This was the view from the window the next morning as the sun rose.  Never seen the earth to be so flat.  I wonder how they keep their directions straight?

The missionary couple the Webbs, Norris & Carol were our hosts while in South Africa.  Fri. morning we went with them to the Johannesburg temple.  There were several new missionaries on the session and the two couples of us.  That was interesting how they handled the prayer circle.  Since the temple is right next to the missionary offices the workers there are often on call to help out.  The lady in charge of clothing at the temple was born in 1911 which made her 101.  

Timbocusi, the man we came to train under in South Africa.  He is the man hired to run the PEF program.  We pretty much understood each other.  He reviewed with us what we had learned in Salt Lake under the Jarvises.

Packed again ready to head up to Entebbe Uganda.  The airport is about  1.5 hours from Kampala, our final destination today.  We got all our luggage to South Africa for free but when we went to fly to Entebbe they charged us almost $400 for extra weight

I'm pointing at the large avocado on the tree near our  apartment in Kampala that we were temporarily stationed at.  When we cut open the avocado the seed was as big as some of the avocados at home.

Here we spent our first night on our tour with the Jacksons.  Would love to have gone swimming at Chobe but the hippos we'd seen the night before near by made me too nervous

 Rand & Julie above the Nile River at Chobe.  Quite a lovely resort on our way to Guru. 

Chobe where we dined above the hippos that foraged for food right below where we were eating.  Too bad it was nights we didn't get pictures.  In the morning we watched them come up for air in the Nile River.   They were enjoying the water along with the crocodiles that we were warned about on the sign but never saw.  

Can you see the elephant in the center?  This was our first and so far only sighting.  We had just left Chobe on our way to Guru where we went with the Andrus's to see the compound they want to rent to have for the branch.  We watched Pres. Jackson negotiate a lease for the building.  Pretty interesting how he went over every detail many times to make sure the owner understood.

Back of Pres Jackson and Rand as they hurry back into town.   We were quite the oddity,  white people walking really fast with nothing on our head or in our hands

Men going to work early in the morning

In Lira we had a zone conference with the missionaries and the Grundys.  We went on a six mile walk with them and the Jacksons before our meeting.  They were in a hurry and I wanted to stop and take pictures of everything.  It was our first chance to be out where the people are.

The Mountain in the background is Kenya.  We are in a very lovely resort in Mbale.  Pres. Jackson met with the missionaries to have a zone conference.   

We drove 10-12 miles into an extremely remote area to find Steven & Sarah Butwale's school.  All of a sudden there it was along a dirt road that probably seldom has cars on it and maybe never with white people  In them.  The "Liahona" school,  wonder where they got that name?  The Butwaleys were one of the first families to join the church In this area.  They go to the Mbale branch by riding a bus and hiring a boda to get them there.  They have a son on a mission but I forgot where in Africa.

Rand sitting at one of the long rows of desks in the school.  Each class room had a black board but lighting was terrible.   It came from an open window.  All of the class rooms were extremely crowded

After leaving the school we drove as far as we could to their home.  Then we had get out and walk the rest of the way.  Rand teased that it was the furtherest we had ever been from civilization.  Sister Jackson is in front with Brother Andrus, Pres Jackson then Rand.

We arrived at the Butwale's home where we meet their two sons.  They showed us their rabbits.   Not sure if they plan to eat them or have them as pets.  I'm guessing the former

Pres. & Sister Jackson presented Sarah & Steven's family with a cake.  Then they invited us for dinner.  Steven brought a pitcher of water and bowl for us each to wash our hands.  They had matoky (fried bananas) and beans.  The beans were deliciously flavored

Across the kitchen table you can see a picture of Christ and the children behind Rand.  To the side of the child is a "love at home" wall hanging.  Bro. Butwale's mother is on the far right, a tiny frail old lady.

Pres. Jackson with Bro. Butwale and Julie.  Their living room/kitchen included some of the same pictures we have on our walls

This is a view of a huge rock from our balcony window.  We stayed the night in Toreno then drove the next day to Busea where Pres. Jackson made a branch out of a group.  I was able to play the key board so they would have music.  I had never played a key board before.  It sounded like an organ so the music was a bit rough but they were pleased.

This is part of the group that went to Busea to establish a branch from a group.  We stopped off here in Jinja because everyone wanted to see our new apartment.  It is on the second floor above the red SUV.  We have three bedrooms, two baths. and a lovely view of the sunsets.  We were on our way back to Kampala.  We didn't move into the apartment till the next Wed.