Oh hey yall! This past week has been AMAZING! I wish I could video everything I do to show you. Its hard work but I am having the time of my life. I think I am starting to stress about the fact that I have to come home eventually. crap. 

We have done a lot of traveling the past week. We have been in Gulu, Lira and Murchison Falls.

Gulu; It was about an 8 hour drive from Kampala to Gulu and I rode front seat the whole time. Let me tell you, these vans are going to be the death of me. I could not sleep once because we are so close to people, other cars and occasionally some how we end up on the other side of the rode. The day we spent in Gulu was successful. We were driving to our first place and saw the missionaries on the side of the rode. I stuck my head out the window and screamed "Elders" . Now in Utah, they get so annoyed because everyone is always waving and honking to them. When we yelled they turned around and started following our van hoping that we would pull over. They had the biggest smiles on their face and kept on waving till we couldn't see them anymore. haha I thought it was funny. We made our first stop and met the Governor of Uganda. (Yeah we have met with some important and amazing people here) We picked the Governor up and he came to one of the schools with us. Once we got to the school they were a little more shy. In Bussi they yanked me out of the van. In Gulu, they just smiled and waved...UNTIL...we opened our van with suit cases we brought for them. They requested soccer jerseys and once we pulled those out they got so excited and loud. The deal was they had to play us for them. Our team leader Bill, who is 75 might I add, the governor and the rest of our team pulled on the jerseys and played the kids. I love soccer so much, but playing with these kids just made me love it so much more. They have a blast and I was impressed on how good some of these kids are. After the game we gave the rest of our gifts out. We gave them jump ropes and I have never ever seen a community have so much fun. They kids, the mothers, the fathers, and even a pregnant lady was jump roping. It was so much fun to watch them all laugh and play.

Murchison Falls; Here we went on our Safari. We pulled into the park stopping and taking pictures of so many animals. I'm talking monkeys, giraffes and animals I have never even heard of in my life. IT WAS GREAT!!! Until, we got a flat tire haha. Don't worry we have a rocken driver but sitting in the middle of the jungle where you know lions are near by is not really something I thought I would ever experience. We spent the night in these little huts where every single kind of bug you can think of lives in. I have over 20 bites on my legs and there are people here with more. We just got ripped apart by all these bugs. Not the best part of this trip. The next day was our safari where we saw more monkeys, elephants, giraffes, hippos, and LIONS!! It was insane, I loved it. Then we took this river boat up the river where we say more wild life. I am not kidding we lost count but in one area we saw over 35 Giraffes. I think I took a picture of every single one as well haha. Then they dropped us off on this bank where we hiked to a waterfall. Most beautiful thing ever. Kami and I took more pictures but I have to laugh cause we got to the top then they charged us 10 dollars to see it haha. totally worth it though.

Lira; We are now in Lira and will be for the next couple of days. We went to church on sunday. They have a branch here with the sweetest branch president ever. We showed up a little early and he called us into his office to just chat with us. Strong members here. Today we went to a orphanage for babies. They only take babies from birth to 3 years old. Today I lost it, I've held back the tears the whole trip till I entered the baby orphanage. This is just a very humbling trip for me. It's hard because we have a great team here and we are working really hard but it's never enough. There is still so much more help people need. We will spend these next two days at an orphanage and two other schools working on solar power, putting in swings for the kids, and just playing with all the communities.

Well got to go, Sorry I will post pictures when I get home. I miss you all! Life is good. Remember, You are blessed!!!