Friends From Mitsiko Children's Choir

Last night we were blessed to mingle with some new friends from Uganda. It was so fun for the kids and Shawn to get to meet people like the ones I have fallen in love with in Uganda.

Random Pictures of My Beautiful Friends

I sometimes ache physically when I think about Africa. I am so anxious to get back in June that I feel like a child anticipating Christmas morning everyday. Ever since I have been home I have had trouble sleeping. It's been hard to stop replaying the images I saw. I think the memories help me stay focused and motivated to do something more. I need Africa more than Africa needs me!

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The Longing Is Painful

I don't know how to describe it. But, in a rudimentary way, I'll try. There isn't a day that I don't think about the children I met in Uganda. Sometimes, I can close my eyes and smell the dirt, feel the humidity, hear the giggles, and feel the children touching my skin. I know it's hard for others to understand.........but, I could really live there. What a better way to live my life then serving God's most vulnerable people. It' not realistic, I know..............but by doing the things I'm trying to do with work in Uganda, I at least hope that I can have an impact. On a happy note, I have had a few friends who have recently been successful in adoption in Uganda. I've also enjoyed following a blog about the Penner family who brought home two children. One step at a time..............we can all change the direction of the world.

Uganda Or Bust! It's Official

Yipee, It's official. Through something I consider divine intervention I met a gal named Jackie Skinner. We got to talking about soccer and I told her of my dream to go back to Uganda with a girls soccer team and she said, that's my dream and I think I have a team. It's now official! Timpview High School girls soccer team from Provo, Utah will be making the first journey as an American girls soccer team to Uganda in the history of time. (That is, of course, as far as we know. So Jackie and I teamed up and we're making it happen. The trip is in June of 2009 and it's a lot of work, but boy, am I ever excited! Here is a photo at our introductory meeting back in Utah. Suzy, Left, Jackie, Middle, Jenny, Right. Jenny is our fundraising gal and she thought of an inspirational phrase and made t-shirts out of them. That is what we are all wearing. They say on the front, "If no 1 can make a difference.................. and the back says.......................then I am no 1"
Think about it......it's a beautiful concept. That's really exactly how I feel about all of this!

Memories of a Special Boy

Although my trip to Uganda was five months ago, the images that fill my mind are still so vivid. This is one face that stays in my mind. Patrick. A little boy orphan who lives in the Nsambya Babies Home. I saw so much potential in this boy, yet, in reality he has no chance at a good life. I wake up every morning and feed my kids a good breakfast, scurry them off to school and then meet them in the afternoon, usually with some kind of homebaked goody, fix them a hot homecooked dinner, read to them, snuggle them and kiss them goodnight I can't help to think of the injustice of it all. This boy is just as loved by my Father in Heaven as my own boys. Why then, is he so unlucky? I don't know. It's a question I haven't been able to find the answer to yet. Maybe I never will. But what am I left with? A hole in my heart longing for this boy to be my own. What is he left with? Well, nothing really. Hope that he'll be fed tomorrow, fear, abandonment, deprivation, anger, hunger.. I love you Patrick.............................if you could be mine I would make it happen. Until then, all I can do is pray for you that you will find some peace in your life.

Angela and Her Cousins in Their New Clothes