WEEK 3 - DISTRICT CONFERENCE, ZONE CONFERENCE

This is Alex our Day guard. (7 am to 7 pm)  He does all the maintenance on the compound.  He has 8 children, but I think he's been married 3 times.  In the last month his current wife left for Kenya with someone else leaving him to care for 3 little children, so we are suffering with his broken heart with him.  He is active church member and takes very good care of the property.

George is our night guard.   He guards our house from 7 at night till 7 in the morning.  Here he is at 7 in the morning on his way to his day job as a mason for the new Chapel in Walukuba where he also serves as Elder's Quorum President.  He works about 20 hours a day, I don't know when he can see his wife and children.

This picture is from the outside looking in at our compound.  I wanted to show the razor wire surrounding the complex for the benefit of my parents who were concerned about security.

This is a school of a different faith.  Every morning I walk past it with Sister Harris as we get a little exercise.  This establishment has children coming to school each morning.  It has some kind of loud speaker that broadcasts to the entire neighborhood a call to prayer several times a day.

There are two entrances to this school.
One for each gender....

Another picture outside our compound.  Inside the compound we have banana trees, papaya trees, and avocado trees.  All of them produce fruit.

Sorry I was sitting behind the choir at District Conference.  They were singing the opening Hymn.  Erin asked why the women shave their heads.  I believe the schools require all girls to shave their heads because of lice problems.  Some of the older women also do because it is just a lot of work to take care of their hair.  Many of them wear straight wigs, or have corn rows put in their hair.

This is Mary who is the District RS President.  She is also the housekeeper for the Harris compound.  Her children are older and no longer at home.  She is a extremely talented seamstress and makes beautiful clothes and handbags.  I hired her to help with the Elder's lunch at Zone Conference because she is so good at everything the "Monzumba"(white) way.

Lunch for Jinja Zone conference

Out to dinner with the couples and President

District Presidency.  The President is Moses Mbiro, the one in the Coat. You actually pronounce each consonants separately and most names have two consonants together at the beginning

The farewell dinner in Kampala for the Shipley's.  The night before they flew out back to Canada.  Their closing words were; "If I had two years left here I would kill myself..."
L to R
Sutterfield (office couple) , Ballstaedt (Jinja), Harris (Medical advisor/physical facilities - live in Jinja) Shipley, Jackson (President and wife - and yes he always wears a jacket and makes the Elders too....Notice the Senior Men can't do it.) Barlow (Humanitarian)

Elder Ballstaedt with Sister Anna.  She has been a member of the Church the longest of anyone I have met., about 17 years.  Her daughter Victoria is the full time employee at the Distribution Center in Kampala.  Sister Anna lives in Bugembe, which is part of the Jinja District.

The women sit outside their homes and do the laundry like this  

Elder Ballstaedt gave a little girl a coin