WE'RE GOING TO TURN RED

This is Smith with his younger brother Thomas.  They are the kids of our housekeeper Christine.  We were visiting her neighborhood today trying to find a kiosk where she would be able to start a business.

I was wondering why they paint the chickens, and I heard two reasons.  First,  some people keep the chickens in the market because there isn't room in their house and they don't want them to get mixed up.  The other reason is because the Eagles don't recognize them as food.  Go figure.....

Christine talking to Elder Ballstaedt with her children, Smith and Patricia.

These were painted blue!

This fellow makes a living by repairing clothing.  He works out of a kiosk right on the street.

I wanted to get a good picture of the front of the store where the clothing repair shop is, but people don't like their picture taken so I had to pretend I was taking it of Smith.

I am so disappointed that my camera has such a slow shutter speed so I always miss my pictures, but this is such a typical thing to see in Uganda.  The women all carry the kids on their backs...I mean like EVERYWHERE.

This is Sister Sally.  She is the wife of George our night guard. With her little girls.  This is their home in the background.

This is a place called the "Source of the Nile".  It has a spring that you can see swirling which the natives say supplies the Nile River with it's water.  It is very beautiful even though you can only see it blurry.

This house is right next door to us.  They are the noisiest family ever, and they have all kinds of animals that the kids tease all day.  It looks like a nice house, but they still do their cooking outside.  It also has no electricity or plumbing.

Every morning I go outside for a walk and have to trip over all the chickens and baby chicks everywhere.  I never saw so many animals roaming all over.  

This is the view I see every morning as I go out for my walk.  It looks so lovely and peaceful each day but them thar hills are full of snakes and other critters.  It is beautiful in the misty morning.

Sister Jackson came to Jinja with some friends from the USA and we visited the Weavers.  They have these big looms and they make beautiful cloth.

We went to the Source of the Nile.  Sister Harris on my right and Sister Jackson on my left.

The Nile in the background.  You can rent a boat and go out but we didn't have time this day.

More views

More views of the looms at the Weaver

More...  Notice the sewing machines are push pedal.  No one depends on electricity here for anything.

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We had zone training.  The Elders love to goof off like kids sometimes

Weird that the Weavers had my favorite yarns already pulled....were they thinking I was going to order something?

Showing off - notice the water bottle in his hand.  We threaten these guys if they don't drink enough water.

companions gettin' along...

You can tell the new Elders are the ones with while shirts - the rest of us have RED shirts that used to be white.

More playing around - showin off for the camera

Oh this shop behind Elder B is selling coal stoves.  Everyone makes their food in the coal stoves out the front door of their home.  They make their own coal out of wood.

The Ugandan women are so dedicated to washing clothes I can't believe it.  This is how they do it, they bend over at the waist and lock their knees.  They scrub and scrub and the water in the yellow gerrycans has been carted long distances by hand for them to do their wash.  They will spend hours each day doing the wash!