Surrounded by Beauty

Here's one I wrote earlier about our trip here.
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The gist of this blog is that God has, in an over abundance provided for us. It is to the point where it makes no logical sense to worry about anything.

You know how sometimes trusting God doesn’t make any sense, how it makes no sense to believe that bread is going to fall from the sky and a huge swarm of birds is going to fly by so that millions of people have enough to eat. Lately we’ve seen God provide us with so much that blind faith is no longer an option. It is now: “If you don’t have faith that God’s gonna come through, you are blind,” because we’ve seen so much already.

The miracles begin with the fundraiser I told you about recently.
Our plan was to apply for the program, pray and hopefully have enough to do monthly payments over the course of our trip. That wasn’t necessary because we ended up being given over nine thousand dollars between our fundraiser and various donors, to whom we are greatly thankful, which ended up being enough to pay off the program up front.

Then there’s the little things like our flight being delayed (not a miracle). The airline rebooked us a flight through a different airline and we ended up having to stay about 10 hours in London Heathrow airport, with no food. So, I guess as a little apology for the inconvenience, British airways gave us 60 pounds in vouchers to spend on lunch and dinner.

Then, the airline that we got switched to lost Karsten’s and my baggage (also not a miracle). We were in need of clothes, but our host at the guest house we are staying at provided us with clothes that fit.

Also, on the first day we were there we had to provide our own lunches, and had no Ugandan currency to do so with. So, while we were sitting in our room we asked God for some food, and then shortly after left our room. Almost immediately after we left, our fellow team members offered us two, 1.5 L bottles of water and some bread with Nutella.

Every need we have had over the past month has been taken care of; even our luggage, which we are supposed to get back tomorrow evening.
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That's what I wrote previously. Today is monday the 18th, our day off. And already It's much appreciated. We've gotten our luggage back and have been getting settled into our program, which is...interesting to say the least.

We've toured some of the villages Watoto has built and had a couple days in class, getting to know some of the ugandans we will be working with, most of which are orphans who have been taken in by Watoto. I'm very much enjoying getting to know some of them.

I've almost ran out of time for writting now, Karsten's got to get on. But I may get on to write more in an hour or so.