A few wells and trips

Jane's well with all the family.

The "Johnson" family and their new well!

Dan pumping another working well.  The family was not home to take a picture with.

This little guy is one of Emma's neighbours and he is just one of MANY that use this well.  Two weeks after we installed the pump the re-bar (?) handle was worn smooth.  

Emma and his family and their new well.  The little guy in the front is Abraham (the shorter on in the button down orange shirt).  He has been sick on and off for the last three years, and he is only four.  Jennifer our team nurse has treated him for everything she can without doing any blood work and nothing has helped.  Please pray for healing over this sweet "little man" (as Emma calls him).  He may have to go to Kampla and have blood work done and that would be a HUGE expense for his parents, and there is not guarantee that they would get any answers.    

The old widow and her new well!!  She walked miles to attend our church last Sunday to praise God for blessing her!  She was so thankful and said that now if she just wants a cup of water all she has to do is go out her door and get one.

Colin and Naboths hanging out just eatin' some corn.  

Me and baby Nathan.  This is Dan and Rose's newest addition!  

We are getting ready to leave on Wednesday to attend a Farming God's Way seminar here in Uganda and I am looking forward to what information will be presented.  I do not really know much about FGW, but have looked at their website and their Facebook page.  This is what FGW's Facebook information said they were "Teaching and training the developing world in Biblical farming principles. We are trying to farm God's way. Join us on t

he journey of applying biblical principles to agriculture. We want to be a part of the larger work that FGW is doing on the continent and in the world."

  So, it should be really neat!  Plus we are bringing along two guys, Charles and Dan, from the Obulle village to go with us so they can learn from the teaching as well.
We will come back only to turn around again in a week and head to Rwanda to renew our VISA.  It will be nice to have a day in Kampala when we come back from Rwanda so we can stock up on some of the things that we can't get here in town.  There are some clothing items that Colin is very much in need of and I really hope I can find a good bike.  I can walk to most everywhere I need to go here in town, but I have to walk through the bar area in order to get to the main road and that is not a good idea.  However if I had a bike it would be faster to peddle through or I could take a longer way around.  Either way, I hope I get lucky in finding a good bike!  Also, cheese and bacon...we get to stock up on cheese and lots and lots of BACON!
All our drilling has been on hold for the past month due to harvest and people working their gardens.  We have also been waiting on a shipment of more pipe to come in so we can drill another 10 wells.  I think that once we return from Farming God's Way, Colin will have the guys start up again.  Even with us leaving for Rwanda and being gone for a week, the crew can handle the drilling.  That is what we had hoped for when we started!
I am pretty excited today because I have my friend Helen coming in from the village to give me my first language lesson!  Helen speaks very good English and teaches at the nursery school at our church.  The kids are all on break right now so I thought I would snag her for a few weeks of language!  It is hard here to learn Ateso because most everyone speaks English, even in the village.  And if they don't, someone close by can and they are usually sent for to act as translator.  So now the long process of language learning begins!
A few prayer request

• Safety as we travel over these next few weeks
• That we can get a 90 day VISA stamp upon re-entry to Uganda
• We are starting to work on getting our work VISA so pray that everything with that goes smoothly.  We are trying to get on with an NGO here and so far we don't see any problems, just it can take a long time.  As of now we have to leave every 3 to 6 months and getting our work VISAS will allow us to be here for three years before we have to reapply.  
• One of our fellow Water For All-er's got some really bad news about one of their parents.  A couple that is planing on coming to Kenya found out that his mom has a brain tumour.  As far as I know there is still a lot of unknowns, but please pray for healing for James' mom.

Thanks for the continued support and for all the prayer!  God is really doing great and wonderful things here in Uganda and we are so blessed to be a part of all of it!