Happy Birthday Jack Eagar.

Oct 20th

We sent out a request for good white shirts for the Missionaries that are being called from Uganda.  Here is an example of what their shirts start to look like.

The Missionary couples in Jinja have a tradition of having a "transfer dinner" every six weeks.  The single missionaries come to the church for a nice dinner and some sort of activity.  These are the only two sister missionaries right now in our district.

After the dinner the missionaries activity was to watch the Priesthood session of conference.  There are about twice as many African missionaries as whites.  

Here is the old and new.  The girl on the left is wearing what an American could be seen wearing.  Many women in Uganda like to wear the dress on the right.  It is their typical dressy dress.  Some women wear them at church.  The sleeves poke up at the shoulder to make it the unique Ugandan style

Rand and I were the hosts for this table of couples.  Pres. Jackson is mentoring those who want to start their own businesses.  He met with each couple then had them all out to dinner at "2 friends".  
On the left are Immaculate and Doug.  The couple on the right is Peter and Loyce.  Peter and Loyce bag water and sell it for much less than bottled water.
We never did figure out what the first couple's business was but they were having fun..
There English wasn't clear enough for us to understand.

These storks have taken up residence in a tree at the church.  There are several that are usually there.  I think the members think we are silly taking pictures of the birds all the time. 

Here is a close up

Took Pres. Palaasi home after church.  He and his wife are teachers at quite an exclusive school.  We drove up on the highest hill around to get to the school.  The compound where he and his family live have the most amazing views.

Pres. Palaasi told Rand about his pig farm.  He has a whole line of pens with moms & piglets

It was hard to get a picture of the pigs, just off the hill from the Palaasi's property

We've watched this garden from the time the lady dug the weeds and planted.  This past week she insisted we have some of her beans.  She pulled the whole plant and gave them to us to take home and harvest.  They are a pretty speckled bean that cooks up much quicker than dry beans.

Rand carrying home the bounty.