New Blog

My brothers and I decided to make a blog about our new club Compassion in Action. If anyone would want to check it out than you can go to:

kubamitweforchrist.blogspot.com

Goat babies!

Last week my goat had two babies. Here are some pictures when they are just a couple hours old:

Sauda’s Kitchen

After the second day (after I fell)

Last day

Completely done!

This last week my siblings and I have been very busy! Last Thursday Sauda, (Christopher’s Mom) came to my mom (I was the translator) and shared some worries that were on her heart.  One of them was that her kitchen (in Uganda everyone cooks outside) had fallen over so whenever it would rain she wouldn’t be able to eat. That morning it had rained and her and her two little kids hadn’t eaten breakfast.  I felt sorry for her and I told my brothers. We decided to build her a kitchen.  So that day we carried old scrap wood and iron sheets (we also purchased some new wood) to Sauda’s house.  The next day my brothers and I finished our school really quickly and hurried to Sauda’s house to start the kitchen, we worked the whole afternoon. At 5:00 that evening we were ready to put the first iron sheet on.  I climbed up on the roof and sat on the pole that was there and then all of a sudden (after I had the first nail in) the pole under me collapsed and I fell to the ground (about a 6-7 foot drop)! I landed on my flat on my face.  I was all right; I just sprained my thumb and bruised my hip and knee.  The next day (Saturday) I went back and worked but I didn’t feel very good.  I went back at lunchtime and was sick in bed the next two days.  Anyway, today we finished it and are recovering from our sore bodies.  It’s really cool seeing how just a little thing like that would bring a lot of happiness to others. My brothers and I were talking about every week going out and helping someone else who is in need. God is so good. I thank him for allowing us to be in such a good place to serve.

Quick Update

The Sky on the rainy Afternoons!

School has started again and everything is really busy. Most of the people who live in the house are at the conference so the house is basically empty, except for my mom and siblings. Since everyone is gone we've been having a lot of fun. It is the rainy season now and it has been raining every night. Every morning at 8:00 (that's when we have family devotions and we start school) we all come bundled up in our sweaters and blankets. The coldest it gets here is around 60 F, but for us that is really cold! Because of the rain we don't have our normal nightly activity (playing soccer with village kids); instead we play games and watch movies inside the house. God has really blessed us with nice weather these days; we're really thankful!

Lira Conference!

There's another conference that that my dad is doing right now. It is in Lira.  On the day that my dad was going to Lira he had to go to Mukono (which is the city about 2 hours away from where we live).  He didn't come back until 9:00 at night! So he had to drive in a pickup truck 4 hours in the middle of the night. When he was still multiple hours away there was a leak in the car. So he had to stop again... long story short, he arrived in Lira at 4:00 am that morning. So please pray for my dad as he is exhausted and he has to preach to hundreds of pastors for the rest of the week.

Youth Conference 2012 Uganda

Today is the beginning of the National Youth Conference in Uganda.  My parents are coming home today and are going straight to the conference.  I will post some pictures and tell you guys all about it.  I know my Dad would really enjoy your prayers because he's really tired from coming from America. Thank you.

Prayer Requests!!!

I was wondering if you could all pray for my siblings and I.  My parents are still in the states and all the kids are sick.  Emmitt just had malaria, Evan has malaria, Emma has a fever and a cold (it's not malaria), and the rest of us have really really bad colds.  It's been difficult to take care of everything in the house.  On Friday school is out so all of the students that are in boarding school (fifteen young adults that my Dad helps provide for their schooling) are coming home from school so we are going to have 30 people staying at our house. Please pray for us!