Bwindi forest - no desert in Uganda

This week we did our PEF student calling then went shopping for eggs and bread.  Did more calling then met students at Jinja Chapel who needed an entry letter for their school.  Called some more then took the computer, phone & PEF list and went to Ling Lings for lunch.  Did some calling while we waited for our food.  We will miss this place as anyone who has eaten here will understand.

Drove to Kampala to pick up student checks and back the same day.  To exhausted to do any calling.

We realized we wouldn’t be calling next month and aren’t sure whether to cheer or fill sad.  We will certainly miss the association of the wonderful PEF students but those who aren’t paying we fill sorry for, pray for and are always racking our brains how to inspire them to keep their commitment so they can be blessed. 

Farming God’s Way sign at Ozzie’s Restaurant caught our attention.  They were having an open house that very day so we called for directions and drove out to Njeru, past the Kingfisher Lodge a few kilometers and found the farm by turning left just past Canaan School and the large speed bump in the road.  Chris was our guide who showed us their experimental farms.  They divided up the 5 acres and some sections farmed the typical Ugandan way and others they have implemented the way they feel that God would have them.  There is a marked difference for the maze and the sweet potatoes but the g-nuts have the opposite effect.  I suggested that since the nut under ground is not visible and to have a flourishing top may not be what you want and possibly the nuts are much more abundant where the top growth is not so impressive.  Time will tell.  I told Rand – Elder Brown we should come back in a few months as the gardening specialist.  There are so many here who garden the same method their ancestors did with no improvements or adamants to the soil.  Crop quality and quantity would be so easy to improve with knowledge.  We hope to get some of the members to attend the workshop next Jan.  We are visualizing how to incorporate what we learned with our Mittleider watering system back home.  The fertilizer is the expensive part with that system but here they have found a way to keep that cost much lower.

Attended Mpumudde Branch for the last time.  The chapel is finished and there is good seating for at least 100.  A couple of the men that we took the missionaries to visit 20 kilometers towards Kamuli  came to the meetings and are taking the missionary lessons.  It was great to greet them and hope they catch the spirit and receive baptism.  If they do good chance the other 30 of that congregation will investigate too.]

It was a sad day in Walukuba.  We drove over to deliver a Bible to a member and everyone that could was preparing to go to Gulu for the burial of a return missionary, Tony Atoya was killed in an auto accident along with several others the night before.  We only knew him as a YSA but were told that he was taking the Planning for Success class and planned to get a PEF loan.   

Benard (on right) has finished school and has purchased this weed eater to make a living cutting grass, weeds and maybe hedges that grow profusely.

Ling Lings is back in the usual place.  It moved down the street for a few months while they did some remodeling.  This is close enough we can walk there.

Always good to get back home.  This is our round-about.  We are the first left up this road

If all the world had this belief.  (incase you can't read)

"If the world thinks being kind is crazy then..... Africa, lets go crazy"

These funny structures were along the road to Kampala.  The signs celebrating 51 years of independence have come down but not the structures.

Judith, Clovis, Mary, Eva and Eve came over to Skype with their family, the Lenharts in USA