Wednesday was our first full day in Gulu. We started out early and hit the ground running!
After individual time with the Lord and breakfast, we had our morning team meeting. It started with worship for a while, during which time Matt, who Mitchell selected as leader since he had to leave, prayed for me and asked God for wisdom for me, saying he saw me as being wise. That really touched me deeply, since I've often prayed for wisdom in the past. After worship and a practical meeting about the day, we set out.
We were told to stay in the same groups we had been assigned yesterday, so Hailey, Oliver and I were a group again today. We first walked into town and went to a bank to exchange money. While Hailey and Oliver were at the counter, a man came and sat in the chair next to me. I started talking to him; his name was Lawrence. I asked him if I could tell him about Jesus, and he said yes. I'm going to call him on Friday and meet with him then, since he's going out of town now. After that, we walked to Main Market. Oliver talked to two guys, because one was wearing an orange shirt, and he felt a word about that this morning. They go to a school in Gulu, which we are going to visit sometime in the next few days. When Oliver finished talking with them, we met a guy named Scott, and American who works with Antioch and lives in the area with his family. He talked to us for a while, then left to take supplies to a hospital Antioch runs. Then we prayed for guidance on who to talk to, and then Hailey talked to some women in one shop while Ollie and I went to the next shop to sit in the shade (Ugandans are incredibly hospitable. Oliver and I walked up to a shop that had some shade and asked the owner if we could wait there for a while, and he immediately stood up and got chairs for us to sit in, almost before we even said anything to him. That was pretty much the norm there.). We talked to the owners, mostly to just one of them. His name is Sierra Monteem, or at least, that's what it sounds like. He's a Christian, but he said he would like for us to come back to tell him more about Jesus. We prayed for him, too. When Hailey finished, we left. Things hadn't gone well for her, and she was a little discouraged. The women hadn't really listened to her, and she thinks they were making fun of her, too. We left Main Market and went back into town for water and lunch. We took lunch, as they say here, at a small restaurant in town. Most of the food was pretty good, and there a was a lot, almost more than Oliver and I could eat. Hailey ate her own food and only tasted some of ours. After lunch, we met with Otim, the boda driver from yesterday. Hailey and I rode with him down the street to the Acholi Inn to get sodas and talk. Oliver walked there (that early, we didn't even consider trying to put three of us on one boda), and he showed up with a girl he met along the way, who had accepted Christ after hearing the Gospel from Oliver! Her name was Gloria. Otim understood everything about the Gospel that we told him, but wanted to think about it first. He is coming to church with us on Sunday, and he's bringing a friend. Gloria is going to the Antioch Bible study at 5 with Hailey and Emmery, who she met shortly after we left. Now I'm waiting for a call from the boda driver who took Blake and me into town yesterday evening. I'll nap until then...
It's late now, I'm about to shower and go to bed. After I tried to sleep for about an hour, I got up and went back into town with Oliver. I talked to a shop owner in the Main Market named Dennis. I'm going to meet with him again Saturday. I also talked to a boda driver named Richard, and I'll be meeting with him as well. Before we left Main Market, Oliver and I joined some Ugandans playing volleyball. I was terrible! I earned the other team a point almost every time the ball came to me. It was fun, though.
After dinner, we all went into a village (Each short-term team has a village to focus on. Ours was named something that sounded like "Kabera Pong") to find people. Oliver, Christie, and I talked to another boda driver, and then a rolex stand owner. We're going to talk to both again, and the food stand owner said he is going to accept Christ tomorrow (When we started talking to him, he said he would accept Christ someday, when he felt like it, but after talking for a while, he changed his mind.)! I need to go now, because Oliver and Blake are waiting for me to turn out the light. More tomorrow.
Pay attention to those happenings; we'll see God use some of those things that seemed pointless and/or a waste for some really good things. He's pretty smart like that.
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