Hi from Sarah!

Hey Everyone!
I hope that all of you are doing well. We are having such a wonderful time here in Africa playing with the children and teaching them English. I have also had the opportunity to do some counseling with the teenage girls and that has been really enjoyable. On Sunday we had the opportunity to go to an awesome church in Tororo and the people were so friendly and we were dancing and singing throughout the entire service. Just recently we visited some of the larger hospitals in the area and I was absolutely appalled at the conditions. The patients had no IVs or monitors and the entire time we were there I saw only two nurses. Some of the HIV patients were just bones lying in there beds, it was so heartbreaking. We were blessed to have the opportunity to pray with each of the patients and talk to some of them about Jesus. We also prayed with the mothers of some babies who had been burned quite extensively. On the way back we rode in a taxi and there were 25 of us in a 16 passenger van! That is just Uganda for you as many can fit in the car the better, some people even hang on outside the door the entire way. I was sitting on Laura’s lap going over every bump and we were just laughing hysterically because the car was so full that the back end of it was dragging. Yesterday we went to a house of an American missionary family and we got to help cook American food with our Ugandan hosts so it was really a wonderful time of fellowship and fun! God has been blessing us with so many opportunities here from talking to street workers to everything that we have been able to do with the children. Each and every one of them is so precious and we have been so blessed to just be able to love on them and be there big sisters for a couple months. With your support and prayers we have already blessed the orphanage so much through you. We were able to get them Bibles, a guitar, some teaching materials, games, and a couple of other random items that they needed. Thank you so much for partnering with us on this trip and for all of your prayers and support. Everything we do here is God doing it through us because we are completely incapable of doing any of this on our own. Mom and dad I love you so much and thank you for everything that you do and have done for me.
~ Sarah