we've been having some visitors

We have had a great few weeks with visitors staying with us.  First we had Terry Waller of Water for All International who came in for a visit to check up on us, see the progress with the well drilling and farming programs, and to encourage us and get us lined out for this year.  Having Terry here was very encouraging and energizing.  It was great to have someone come and see the work that has been done over the last year, to discuss the well drilling program, look for ways to make things better or more efficient, and to see our friend and mentor Terry.  Terry was able to go to church with us, meet the drilling crew, spend some time getting to know a few of our friends, eat some good local foods, view the wells and farming areas, see where we hope to build a home in the village one day, and to meet Silas.

We dropped Terry off at the airport and picked up Kathy, Ronnie's mom, the same day.  Kathy got to meet her grandson Silas, see Africa for the first time, experience Kampala traffic (she vowed to never ever... ever, ever, ever to complain about Raleigh traffic again), sleep under a mosquito net, spent time with us in the village and got to meet our friends, experienced the market, spent Easter and Ronnie's 29th birthday with us. We decided to go to Murchison Falls while Kathy was here so we could see some of Uganda's wildlife.  That was a pretty neat experience for all of us and Silas absolutely loved all the puppies (all the animals were puppies to him).  We even took a boat ride up the Nile River and viewed the magnificent Murchison Falls,  saw where the movie The African Queen was filmed, and saw the site where Ernest Hemingway crashed his plane.