Handfuls of Blessings

February began with Shae-Lynn turning 16.  We celebrated with other missionary girls at the coffee shop.  What a blessing it is for our children to have two other like-minded missionary families in our town with which to fellowship with. Her rice crispy cake was a guitar. Close MK friends A couple of times a year when we have visitors, they overlap in their visits.  Such was the case when Jerrold and Karen Myers (missionaries from South Africa) and Cody Crevar (college graduate from Canada) arrived one day apart. Jerrold Myers preaching Cody enjoying one of our Kampala restaurants Having several married couples in our church this year, we were able to host a Valentine Supper for them (actually one couple is engaged).  We enjoyed several games in which we discovered how well they knew each other and how well they worked together. Grilled chicken supper on our front porch One Sunday when we arrived home from church, we found that one of our do...

January 2016!  No sooner had Christmas been packed away then I pulled out the sewing shears, the glue gun, and the mixer.  Two weddings and one graduation kept me busy. The first full week of January we had our Tri-Annual Bible Institute and had graduation for our Masaka Baptist College on the final night.  As the cake decorator, I was counting myself blessed that the name of both graduates was "Charles." Two days later, Keith had to preach for a wedding in the village, of which they asked me to make the cakes.  Since I started splurging and buying ribbon and artificial flowers, the cake decorating task has been much less stressful.  (I still wish I could take a cake decorating class and actually get some professional training.) I need to invest in a cake stand.  Those soda bottles look precarious! During the midst of all of this, I was taking Shae-Lynn in for numerous testings for a medical problem that we still haven't been able to pinpoint. ...

December 2015 began with a wonderful Missions Conference.  However, I can't find a picture for it!  Sorry. December and January are usually our hottest months of the year, so instead of advertising warm, seasonal drinks like restaurants do in the States, ours invites you to cool off. After the Missions Conference, I threw myself into our Annual Ladies' Conference preparation.  I had SO much fun!  For three days of classes, I had just 11 pages of notes (which even frightened me), but God expanded my thoughts, and we all had a great time studying Relationships. Then came Christmas.  We were blessed to have Keith's family spend several days with us to share old stories, go swimming, eat together, and make new memories. When we took Mom and Dad to the airport, it was difficult to think of them as moving.  This wasn't just a furlough they were going on.  Although we are saddened at their departure, we are excited to see how God is going to ...

Looking back...ok, way back to the end of last year, it doesn't seem possible that we can get busier each holiday season, but it happens.  There is always so much more planned from November - January than seems possible to accomplish.  Pictures are worth a thousand words...so here is my condensed thousand words in pictures...in several parts. One of our dogs gave birth the day after Uganda's Independence Day.  They are so cute when they are puppies, but we have had our fill of them.  I have declared, "No more!" The end of October brought us some return visitors from Canada.  This church has been such a blessing to us in the last three years.  This year, they paid for new songbooks for our main church and our village churches, too.  However, there were a lot...a whole bunch...of late, late nights for me as I put the songbook together, as well as a music book.  And as much as I proofed it, yes, I still find mistakes in it.  However, it i...