Sarah and Dan invited Elder Brown and I to their wedding.  They took the missionary lessons and wanted to be baptized.  Because they had never been married they were married on Sat. and Baptized on Sun.  We were unable to attend the marriage because it was held at the same time as the PEF fireside we conducted in Jinja Branch.  Wished we could have postponed the fireside because the electricity was off and we had a power point presentation for most of the fireside.  In the end we showed the movie of Pres. Hinckley announcing the Perpetual Education Fund to about 30 attendees from the lap top we placed on the podium.  The rest we had to do without the wording of the power point.  The reason we wanted that is they could read the words of what we were saying if they didn't understand our accent.

Back to the wedding
We were able to attend the reception at the couples home.  They placed a big tent out in the yard.  When we drove up in our truck we followed a very rough road about a block to the home with neighbors all along the way shouting and singing a joyous song they use for special occasions.

Much to our surprise Rand and the other Senior Elder were asked to speak.  I sure was glad that I wasn't as I was already overwhelmed.  In the end I said the blessing on the food.
Check out the fun decorations hanging around the tent.

Pres. Godfrey Kitambo is showing Dan and Sarah where to sign their marriage certificate

We have received lots of memos from the Mission President about how marriages must be done in order to qualify to be baptized and eventually go to the temple.  Here they proudly display their proper marriage document.

Sarah was pretty serious throughout the evening.  I kept trying and got a few with them smiling

Cutting the cake.  They had a hard time cutting through the frosting.  See the purple flower at the bottom of the picture.  That is the flower Sarah made at Relief Society the day I came to teach them a craft.  That was the first time I met Sarah.  She was so touched that I did that.  It was amazing to me that was all it took to be named guest of honor at her wedding

Sarah fed Dan some cake and now she is giving him a drink of soda.  (you really do need something to wash down the cake).  We were told that you should take the cake with two fingers only.  If you used three you were in trouble.  No one said what that was but it reminded me of Dad when he told us not to eat the point of the pie first.   They Kneeled down feed each other and then they kneeled down to serve their special guests the tiny pieces of cake as well.
It rained and turned very dark.  We were glad we had the tent.  Someone placed a kerosene lantern on the table for light.  At home something like that could be on each of the tables as a decoration.

William is the man in the center.  He is in our Book of Mormon reading class.  He is sitting by Dan and Sarah's four children.

Sarah is ready for her baptism.  She still has the fancy hair style she had yesterday for the wedding.  The hair is plastered down and designs in glitter is the color that you see.  It was very fancy.

Bro. Ballstead baptized two couples today.  This man lives two hours from the nearest branch.  We don't usually teach families that live so far away but this man and his wife insisted.  Rand was the witness and was holding the names of those being baptized.  Ugandans always say there last name first.  It is very confusing to us Americans.  The first name is often something simple like Dan or Susan but the last name (which they say first) is an African name that we struggle with.

Sarah has been baptized
Notice the ladder into the baptismal font.  I think someone started the water in the font and forgot about it.  Never seen it that full before.