Well, I do believe I owe an apology to you all for such a long break between posts. Things have continued along pretty Ho Hum over here and do in my own opinion of a lack of eventful "blogworthy" things I didn't write anything, but I know there are and were things I definitely could've wrote about. So I apologize for my lack of discipline in this area, but I am human...
So I have continued on working on my two projects, Watoto I am still currently working on and I finished Eagles Wings about 3 weeks ago or so. It has been nice to only have one project to work on. Without the project trips to look forward to, work has became what feels more and more like "just" a job which it is, but hard to remember that this is my form of ministry here. Since I don't interact a ton directly with the community though that have presented a challenge here.
Anyways, we were lucky enough to be in Uganda for an International Soccer match that we went to this past weekend. Soccer is a god here. I definitely learned that. Downtown on the day of the game was crazily packed with people and horns and excessive noise of people in anticipation of the game.
Traffic was backed up everywhere and every direction trying to get to the match, but that was okay since Tim and I decided to go early and take a Boda (motorcycle). We ended up getting incredible seats at midfield in the 3rd row. Praise God it was awesome. It was absolutely just something you can really explain or describe. Fans are constantly screaming chanting yelling cheering blowing horns, playing music, dancing, anything and everything. Just crazy. It definitely was the noisiest environment I have ever been in. My ears were ringing for 3 days from the ear deafening of the game.
Uganda won 2 to 0 which made the game even more fun because when Uganda scored, the stadium erupted to a new decibel with cheering and screaming as well as everyone starts hugging and high fiving and jumping up and down! Just chaos.... it also makes it quite fun because there are no seat numbers... which I mean not too surprising right? It is a poor country and all that extra work getting people in their right seats and patrolling that is just a ton of work so easier to just have a first come first serve seating basis right? Ya that makes sense, but probably should only print the number of tickets the capacity of the stadium then Right?....
Well maybe not as we found out during the game as we ended up sharing our 4 seats with 9 people and come to find they sold 70,000 tickets to a stadium that has a capacity of 40,000 so I guess you could say that makes the stadium quite hectic, but it only adds to the amazing atmosphere of chaos. I mean what could be more fun than having almost twice as many people in a stadium.
My time is sadly coming to a close here though I am quite eager to get home to be with my family and fiancée as well as see all my other friends and relatives!
God does continue to challenge me here as always. I go through many ups and downs of feeling incredible closeness with the Lord and it seems so easy to continue to walk upright in the Spirit while times like now God feels so incredibly distant. I read my Bible, pray, seek, knock and just something is missing, but I truly know trust and believe it is for my good and God's ultimate Glory. He challenges me in these times to ask " Do you really love me?" And in these times I do my best by Gods Grace to press in and say Yes I do as hard as this is. My soul desires you (Psalm 42... I think)
Lastly, I am getting sick with what seemed to be like all the symptoms of Malaria, but I got tested and didn't have Malaria so praise God for that, but still not feeling quite all better so Pray for me.
God is working in my heart in amazing ways as I feel I try to truly understand what it means to Love the Lord with all my heart, soul and strength and what it means to fear the Lord and verses like working out my salvation with fear and trembling. There are so many verses that talk about these two things. So they must be pretty important. Anyone can say oh ya I love God, but do we? Because I know so often I live, I think, I worry and I feel like I don't love Him at all. But oh God I desire for you to be the deepest desire of my heart that all else pales in comparison. This is definitely something I am trying to challenge myself a lot with.
Keep praying for me to finish strong here as that can be a struggle here.
Love you all!
K2
