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if you go to africa with a hard heart, you come back with a soft heart,
if you go to africa with a soft heart, you come back with a broken heart,
if you go to africa with a broken heart, you don't come back.

a couple weeks closer

My dad just sent me some pictures that I thought were pretty cool but they require a little explanation so here goes..My parents went to Uganda last year with their church, Covenant Community Church (that was redundant). They did various mission oriented things including helping build this orphanage and doing home visits with care packages our church put together. The trip was very successful and everyone came back with many tales of God's goodness. While they were there they learned that their tour guide, Willy, had had a hip replacement when he was younger. Apparently though the replacement hip that he received was too small for him. To make a long story short CCC raised enough money to get him a plane ticket over here and my dad convinced Mayo to give Willy a new hip and the surgeries he needed to have it put in pro-bono. My parents and myself have gotten to know Willy pretty well now because he is staying at my parent's place in Phoenix while he goes through all these painful surgeries and rehabilitation. I didn't know this till I received an email from my dad this afternoon but I guess CCC has been helping finance the building of a church for Willy's pastor in Uganda as well and the pictures I am posting are of this church being built. That was a rather lengthy explanation but I think the pictures are cool enough to merit it...so without further ado here they are.

That's Lake Victoria in the background of a couple of those pictures and I'm pretty sure that's Willy's pastor and maybe his wife and a few friends. My dad also told me if I find myself without much to do, unlikely I think, I could go out there and help with the construction of the church. I leave for Phoenix tomorrow to get another four shots. I'm hoping I get the same nurse. She mentioned that one of the main reasons shots sting like they do is because many nurses don't wait for the rubbing alcohol they wipe your arm with to dry before they stick the needle in...Why haven't I heard that before?? I feel like this little piece of knowledge might have saved me quite a bit of pain growing up. Saturday my dad is taking me to get some gear at REI. I guess there is this clothing line called Buzz-Off which contains mosquito repellent in the material the clothes are made out of. Exciting right?