Tuesday  July 10
A bit about the weather-the temperature is in the 80s during the day and drops into the 60s at night.  The humidity is only in the 50s  which means it is very comfortable-don’t have A/C but with the cool night air, room is comfortable. Breezes during the day also keep us comfortable also.  Today it was cloudy  most of the day and during dinner this evening it rained-actually thundered also. Praise the Lord for great weather.

Our journey to Holy Mount in Kasese took just under 4 hrs  each way. Along the journey we drove through one of the national parks in Uganda and saw chimps along the road-the chimps wanted to ride with us to get free bananas which a couple of the guys tossed out the window. In one of the villages ripe corn  was being dried in the sun after being removed from the cob using a corn sheller. Praise the Lord for safe travel and seeing lots of God’s creation

Holy Mount has both a church and a school. The school has over 200 children-40 of those children are orphans. Today the children danced for us even though it was a school holiday and they didn’t have to be at school.  Once again they were thrilled we came.  Our frustration was the limited time we had for the health and hygiene lessons-only 1  hr compared to the 3 hrs Monday. Thank the Lord for the time we had.  Ten families received filter buckets.

Finally, on they way back to the hotel, we stopped at a restaurant where several of us got ice cream. Yummmmm.  Praise the Lord for continued good health.

Pray for open hearts to the gospel.  Pray for our teaching will be clear and concise.
Thanks again for joining us on our journey with your thoughts and prayers.


Blessings
TEAM 1821

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