Uganda Prayer Update #3 (sent 2/3/08)

Greetings! (Sorry for the double email.. for some reason half of it got cut off in the first go)

I hope that this week has treated everyone well! Thanks everyone who has emailed me, I love hearing from you! Things have started to settle down a bit here, as it was our first week of working in the office. Until our project trip in early March, we will not have terribly much to do. So in the meantime I have been reading books, cleaning out my inbox and other such things. I am living in the same compound as our office so to get to work I have to walk approximately 10 ft. My roommate is another intern named Jill who is an architect student at Kansas State. My other housemates are Liz Lee from New Zealand, a long term volunteer architect, and Heather Peeler, a teacher at the local international school (she has been here for a year and a half). Our other housemate is a cat named Oreo. On Saturday, Liz and I worked on our little garden and played some American football at Heritage with some other ex pats.

On Sunday, we went to church with Janet, a staff civil engineer, where she is the only regular attender who is a mzungu (white person). It was a really fun service with alot of singing and dancing. There were a number of songs in Luganda which we couldn't understand, but also songs that I knew, including "Trading My Sorrows" and "Amazing Grace." When we sang "My Redeemer Lives" I could feel how much everyone really believed! After the service we were invited to Mama Eunice's house for lunch. When we got there, we fit 8 people sitting in a concrete block of about 5ft x 7ft. It was rather tight, but Mama Eunice got us Cokes and rice and we had a lovely time chatting with the neighbors. It was a great day to see the joy of the Lord in His people!

Praises:
~God is at work!
~We get to see it!

Requests:
~Continuing to grow in community in our house.
~Continued financial support.
~That God would show me the best place for me to serve the community here.

Thanks for reading and God Bless!!
~Heather