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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Uganda day 3
We spent the morning in town shopping for African paintings
and other fun souvenirsJ After eating lunch in town, we headed into the karomojong village
with Katie to pick up a lady that has a baby that had been burned. She had a kerosene lamp burning in her hut and it fell over and caught
the foam mattress on fire that the baby was laying on. It burned one side of the baby’s
body. When the mother
brought the baby to Katie, the burn was packed with rabbit fur ( a custom this
village has done for many years when they have a large wound.) Katie took the baby to the hospital and
the doctors refused to treat the child.
So, of course, Katie took the child home and pulled the hair out one by
one with tweezers for hours upon hours. Katie redresses the burn each day, and
it is actually healing really well.
After dinner, I went into town with Katie and Anna Bliss. We went to the store to buy drinks and
snacks for a man that has a hurt leg. As I walked into the hospital room, I was
OVERCOME with the WORST stinch I have EVER smelled in my entire life. The smell of rotting flesh is like NONE
OTHER! From his knee to his ankle
is open flesh, his shin bone is the color of charcoal and all around the edges
is green goop…. We are not sure WHAT exactly has happened, but DO know that
there is two choices. 1) amputate
2) strip the leg down to bone and muscle ONLY and treat it every day for the
next year to make sure that infection doesn’t set in after it is all cleaned
out. We will know tomorrow what
they decide.
Never a dull moment here….
Uganda day 4
I could barely get my eyes open this morning! Who knows? Maybe it was the smell from the rotting leg from last night
that sealed my eyes together?!? (haha)
I went into the karomojong village with Katie this
morning. There was a little part
of me that was dreading it abit.
Every time I leave there, I am SO overwhelmed with the needs, and I feel
SO helpless. I feel a bit of
anxiety on what my part is in the BIG picture of these people’s lives. I pray for them, but it never seems to
be enough. The teenagers on our
trip, stayed at Katie’s house with her girls and baked cinnamon rolls, banana
bread, and cleaned out her pantry and medical closet. Susan, Renee, and Julie all went back into town to purchase
mattresses, brooms, formula, diapers, and medicine for the babys home that we
found earlier in the week.
We had bible study with the Amazima “bead ladies.” Katie is teaching them about the names
of Christ. She sent a plaster
(band aid) around the circle and
asked in what way the band aid described Christ. She taught them that Christ is
the “HEALER” in our lives. How
does He heal? By prayer, by
miracles, etc…What does He heal?
Our sicknesses, our heart…heals us from addictions. IT
WAS STRONG. She had them read
scripture and applied it to their lives.
I was in awe of how applicable she made it to their daily lives. When she was finished, they asked the
“vista” to pray. I WAS SO HUMBLED
to be sitting in a circle with these women, much less, to be lifting them up to my sweet Savior in
prayer. My dread of the morning
turned into thankfulness. I am SO thankful
that He had me right there in THAT moment to feel HIS presence in such a mighty
way. The red dirt smothered feet,
tattered clothing, smell of burning trash, and the naked little bodies running
all around brought a smile to my face and joy to my heart.
We returned to Katie’s and picked up the rest of my
group. We headed straight over to
the new baby’s home that Renee, Susan, and Julie bought in town today. The lady that runs the home started
crying as we pulled through the gates with a van filled with MORE goodies for
her and her babies! We changed
diapers, folded clothes, and promised her that we would return on Thursday to
test all of the baby’s for HIV/AIDS.
Once again, tears were flowing as she explained that she desired to test
them all, but it was going to cost 200,000 shillings to do it and she did not
have the funds. I AM SO EXCITED to
be a part of this “GOD walk”
There is absolutely NOTHING like it!!
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About Me
- suzanne
- I am a lover of Jesus. I have the most fabulous husband that anyone woman could ask for. The Lord has blessed us with 7 beautiful children. I started this blog so that friends and family could follow our trip to Uganda to visit Katie Davis. I have decided to keep blogging to help bring orphan awareness to the world around me.
4 comments:
Love reading about your mission trip! I just returned from South Sudan & Uganda last week. If you'd like to read my mission trip/adoption journal/adoption blog, come on over! www.moorhousesonmission.blogspot.com
suzanne, these posts are doing me in! the one about the pastor's wife and the babies just affirmed that you are EXACTLY where you are to be, and doing what He has for you RIGHT THIS MOMENT. so thrilled for you to be seeing evidence of that multiple times throughout this trip. ONCE would be enough, but He is pouring out His abundance on you, girl! thanks for sharing. i want to go next time!
btw, being reminded that one of Christ's names is Healer is so appropriate for me today, because this morning He healed my grandma by taking her to His House! she was 92.
I am so excited about the way God has used you all on this trip! Especially the way He led y'all to that sweet woman taking care of those babies! Amazing! I met you at the Created for Care conference and you chatted w/my friends and me in the hall...even when your throat was killing you from strep. Thank you for that! We have been waiting for almost 2 years trying to adopt from UG and a part of my heart hurts with longing hearing about all those babies she is single handedly taking care of...but then I am even more blessed and amazed at the way God sees and provides for these little ones through her faithfulness and y'all's faithfulness! So encouraging!
WOW! It's look you are working very hard. Every time when I'm reading your blog I'm more inspired to sth good for others. I help in one of ONG in my city in Ireland as a volunteer, but I'm wondering about some mission in Africa next year. I could go with one friend of mine who works in Mozambique. We'll see. Greetings, Thanks for inspiration:)
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