Hello Everyone! We have had quite the week.  We are really excited about the things going on here in Uganda.  First of all I just have to say  that the people are so so kind and loving and welcoming to us.  This last weekend was a little hard starting out because we hadn't started on any projects.  If you can only imagine 22 girls that are mostly 19 and 20 screaming and being crazy you can imagine Nate asked me a few times what we were doing here.  We went and played soccer with some children in the village.  These kids schooled us barefoot, they were so good.  Church on Sunday was AMAZING! We went to a little branch in Jinja and they were so excited to see us, most of the volunteers went to Mukono for church.  The people were really inspirational and loving. There is a Sister who got baptized 3 weeks ago who is teaching Relief Society on Sunday. Isn't that amazing?

We have these committees that we volunteer to be on and since everyone in the house was starving I am on the food committee and Nate is on the finance committee so he can pad the budget so we can get more food.  It really isn't that we don't have a budget it's just that the we have no fridge and it's hard when you have to shop for 25 people.  It's getting to be a pretty big project.  We went to a small village called Nagojje that is about 40 min ride on a boda boda (motorcycle) This town has never had white people come into the village to do trainings.  There was a baby that was crying and Nate went to touch the baby and the baby started bawling.  The mother said sorry she has never seen a white person before.  The people are so humble and grateful for us coming to teach them business.  They started and ended the City council meeting with prayer.  This is when I first realized why WE needed to be there. After the meeting they brought us into their homes and gave me a necklace and fruit and were just so sweet and kind to us.  They asked us a million questions about America and what happens when we get too much sun.


We stared our first business class on Wednesday and it went really well. They had us sing our National anthem which was kind of funny. The people that came to the class in Lugazi were really smart.  Nate went to do consulting with a man who did the business classes last year.  He went to his furniture shop and is helping him to understand how to make a better profit and market the furniture.  Nate was saying that the guy thought it sounded like rocket science and that they were just so happy for the help.

Our Nagojje people who invited us in their home.

I went to one of the schools to observe the teachers and see if we can implement a teacher training.  Since I have been going with Nate on the business classes there hasn't been a lot of free time.  Yesterday we went to this small town past the middle of nowhere to meet the women that are starting the business of selling reusable pads.  They treated us like Kings and Queens.  They brought water to wash our hands and fed us fruit it was really so wonderful.  It takes us about 1 1/2 hours to get there and we go on these taxis but they stop every two seconds to pick up more people.  We get pretty cramped in there but we are able to make some great friends.  I decided they like you just because you are white, they wanted us to get them a visa to the U.S.


I will add pictures for sure, we just forgot the cord and the internet cafe is SUPER SLOW. But the children all love us and are so excited to see us. We are loving it and adjusting the the African lifestyle.  It is pretty crazy how many things we have that we take for granted.  We love you all!


Love, Liz & Nate