WE'RE HEEEEEERE!

We finally made it to Uganda and we are falling more in love with the country everyday. Despite canceled flights, unexpected night in freezing London with no money or means to go outside the hotel, lost baggage, eight hour trips to retrieve said baggage we actually had a blast getting here. It was an adventure in and of itself and we learned so much through it all. Mainly, we learned that the journey itself is the best part and that we are more grown up than we thought (although that fact could be argued by the hotel guests beneath us that heard us jumping on the bed). We felt literally sick that we were in one of the most intriguing countries in the world but unable to explore. We are determined to return and earn our London passport stamp. Maybe we could stop by for a few days on our way to Morocco.....Jerusalem.... Italy?

The people here in Uganda are so beautiful and kind and we already feel like there is so much we can learn! We had every intention of making this a blog of our adventures, but we didn't know that the computers here are so old that they don't even have hookups for cameras. Call us ignorant and spoiled, but we had no idea that computers like that even existed!!! We are going to do some research and see if we can find another cafe that we can download our photos so that you can see why we love it here so much. All in all, we are SO HAPPY that we came. We feel so blessed that we were given this opportunity and so responsible to soak it all in and do all we can to help the people here.

We are super excited because in all of the luggage-retrieving ruckus, we spent the day with a new friend, JohnBaptist (aka JB). Yep, you read that right...as in John.the.Baptist but all one word. He is 27 years old and we followed him around Uganda on motorcycles, taxis, insanely crowded matatus to retrieve Age's luggage. Through all our travels we were able to talk much about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Restoration of His church. JB had lots of questions and we invited him to church with us next Sunday. He lives about 40 km away from us but conveniently about 10 minutes down the road from our church. It will be kind of hard due to distance and money, but we are hoping we can be part of his discussions with the missionaries. He is fascinated with the idea of the Book of Mormon and has a bunch of books that question the validity of the priesthood of the Papacy. Pray for him that he will be able to feel the Spirit at church this Sunday!

We love you!