italy

i really feel like this blog is already a bit of a lost cause..but i'll post again anyways. the last few days i have been with my parents and my brother and his wife in italy. things have been really amazing, italy is a pretty incredible place. the first few nights we were in venice, then verona, and now we are in rome. last night we went to an opera in a roman coliseum. it was quite the event. i guess it was opening night so everyone who had floor seats was extremely dressed up and there were even a couple news crews there interviewing people. tonight i managed to meet up with michelle and jenna who have been in europe for about a month and we had dinner and hung out a bit. pretty cool to see a couple good friends on the other side of the world. i think im going to try to meet up with them and watch the soccer game tomorrow italy vs somebody else haha should be wild people are huggge fans out here obviously. i head back to africa on tuesday, im a bit sad not to be going home from here but im excited to go back to africa as well so it all balances out i guess..dr. k isn't going to be there any more so i wont do anymore evangelism instead i think ill be working at a school, an orphanage, and an aids clinic all over the course of the next six weeks as well as hopefully doing a little work for the governor of the bank of uganda. dr. k set that up for me and im really praying that it works out because i think it would be really interesting to talk to a guy that has so much to do with the economic policy of uganda. i'm not really sure what the plan is for tomorrow but my parents hired a guide so i guess he will take care of the planning since we are only here two days i think they wanted to make the most of it. we are staying at this kind of weird hotel which is supposed to be really modern but they really only succeeded in making it really creepy, all white walls with no artwork and strange chandeliers made mostly from plastic. not really my thing i guess. well i probably wont post again till i am back in africa so until then..

three weeks in..

Well I didn't really expect to be making my first real blog post three weeks in to my trip to Africa but that seems to be how things worked out. I'll do my best to summarize what has happened realizing that you probably don't have time to read thirty pages. Most of the time I spent here so far has been evangelizing. The first week we were in a slum in downtown Kampala. The second week we were in Lawero which is about two hours outside of Kampala and the third week has been spent in Entebbe which is just outside of Kampala. I've gone from no evangelism experience at all to it basically being a part time job. I still think I'm pretty terrible at it but it really forces me to depend on God. I have certainly gotten a lot clearer on what I believe as I've had to explain it to countless people. The people we encounter are all very curious about what I, as a 6'4'' white American and less so as a missionary, have to say. This concept is a little hard to explain. It's not that they are so grateful to hear me talk about God. It's more like they want to hear what the white person has to say. Our translators and fellow evangelizers have explain that when we are with them people are much nicer to them and Dr. K calls us their passports. This isn't because we are such great people. It has everything to do with the color of our skin. I've come a long ways in three weeks but I still feel completely insufficient. The fact that God continues to use me is really astounding. It looks like this post is going to be much shorter than I planned because my friends are back and we need to catch a taxi back to Dr. K's but while I am in Italy beginning next Saturday I will post a lot so check back soon.