Refreshing Weekend

I’m really not sure what to share for today’s blog. Honestly, we haven’t done very much in the last two days. Weekends are for relaxing! Which is very nice; we don’t feel like we do a whole lot here but we sure do come back to our hut exhausted every night.

We have had some hysterical moments, adventurous moments, and heart-to-heart moments in the past few days. Our hysterical moments involve Mishana and the chickens. Yesterday morning, Mishana was in the kitchen (upstairs! In the house!) and the rooster just walked right on in. Mishana told me that there was some chaos and loud clucking in the attempt of one of the students trying to get the rooster out of the kitchen … But a few minutes later, while still upstairs setting the table, Mishana heard the rooster make one REALLY LOUD noise and then she heard nothing. She didn’t think much about it … until she went to the downstairs kitchen and noticed rooster feathers EVERYWHERE! The hysterical part of this story was later that night when another rooster walked into the dining room. Since the Sisters were in the middle of their evening prayer, Mishana was like “Hurry! Help me get the chicken outside before the Sisters see it and kill it again!” After about 10 minutes of trying to scare the chicken out of the house, we finally succeeded! You should have seen Mishana’s face; she was pretty proud of the fact that she had saved that chicken’s life … Despite the fact that she was sad at the slaughter of the rooster, it didn’t bother her much that we had chicken for lunch. HEHEHEHE!

As for our adventurous moment, Mishana and I walked to town by ourselves today. Other than the cars and motorcycles being a tad bit reckless, we had a very nice walk. We had hoped to find some tourist/souvenir shops but we had no luck. We did go to the supermarket though! Yes, you are right, it really isn’t that adventurous, but it was fun to experience life in Gulu without a guide.

But my favorite parts of this weekend have been the heart-to-heart conversations that Mishana and I have had. We have had much more time together to just sit and chat in the past two days then we have the whole two weeks we have been here. I think that we have talked about everything! Sometimes I feel like we are just having one really long sleepover … but what I love more than anything about Mishana is that everything always goes back to Christ. Regardless of what we are talking about: boys, cooking, books, weddings, movies, music, marriage, Pinterest, Facebook, dating, forgiveness, joy, college, classes, apartments, cleaning, lizards, shoes, bracelets, and so much more. It is so refreshing to be with a girl who loves Jesus so much!! It is really cool to discuss what God is revealing to us each and every day. I know that we are here in Gulu to serve the Sisters, young women, and children. But I also know that this month is about us challenging and loving each other in every situation.

Our Current Prayer Requests:

-          Energy, smiles, and patience as we begin another week with the children in the Daycare.

-          Safe travels for our friends that left for Moyo this afternoon.

-          That our hearts and attitudes will be in a place where we hear His direction.