We safely arrived in Jinja, Uganda at 3:30am on Sunday morning.  The ride from the Entebbe airport to Jinja was a 2.5 hour ride along some pretty terrible roads; however, the trip was full of some very new and interesting sights, sounds and smells.  These were familiar to me from my time in Brazil, but were unique to Africa.  Vanessa says there is a saying around these parts, “Same, same, but different”.

After spending only one day in Jinja, I already am starting to feel at home and feel a true peace about our pending move here.  Vicki and I both agreed that we could live here.  In fact as I sit here writing this blog, Vicki was putting on her makeup listening to the birds outside, enjoying the sunrise over Lake Victoria and feeling the cool morning breeze and said, “yes, I could get used to this”.  I truly feel the peace that passes all understanding about this place and feel the Lord’s presence here.  In fact, a verse keeps coming to mind.  Joshua 1:9, “Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Today (Monday) we will meet up with Vanessa at her office to meet the Fount of Mercy staff, get our SIM cards cut down to fit our phones, add airtime so we have a Ugandan phone number, and then have dinner at our future home.  We are very excited about getting to visit the house and meeting the Bogans, Prossie, Mbusa, Moses and Francis.  Tomorrow we will go out to the village to assist Vanessa with a health class she will be giving.

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