WHEN A GENERAL AUTHORITY COMES

This is our first graduating class of the 5-week Self-Employment class.  Pictured with their certificates include 5 branch Presidents, the District RS president, District Primary President, and some other District leaders.  They all presented their written business plan in front of everyone.  It was a great class!  The church will lift everyone!

Zone conference waiting for Elder Cook and Pres J to arrive at the church - singing; "called to serve"

Nice looking Hard working Elders

Elder shaking hands with Sis Cook

Breakfast

Oh, make a hard left head turn here

We fed them breakfast, and a sack lunch after the meeting

Ok there are always two ways to do things.  (I learned this from my friend in the Inner City Project).  Some things you do the "Priesthood" way and some things you do the "Relief Society" way.  These sack lunches were for the Cooks and Jackson's so they had to be done the RS way.  Here I am with Sis Harris ad Sis Rix

Notice the little fork rolled up in the cute napkin

the lid covered with African material

Patiently waiting for the General Authority

So if they actually do use this site for a church, we could just look out the window and see what's cooking for dinner...

I was really tempted to look through the "pink" dress specials that day

Fashion made easy.  This shop owner went through the bale of humanitarian goods and was able to pull some cute outfits together

A busy day of retail sales.  This is more of the view out the window of the proposed church building

This is a relatively quiet street of retail

They love cameras.... beats all the long hours of playing in the dirt.  The babies are always so curious when they see strangers, and they usually can't speak English yet, so it's hard to talk to them.  And they are really shy!

Ok the trailer has got to be heavier than the stuff on it.  Africans are amazingly strong.

Pres J sent us to help look for a building to be used for a church in Iganga.   This is the best we found.....The boda-boda parking lot in front is interesting however.

The back looks promising

The workshop connecting the building looks especially promising

What do you think?

This little boy has a sack he uses to collect the treasures he finds in garbage piles

President Moses with his mother.  He is our District President.  He has 3 children named; Hinckley, Smith, and Emma.   His wife was Muslim, but converted when they got married.  Last year they were sealed in the JoBerg temple.  He is an outstanding leader

Pres K with his cute wife.  They got married 4 days after he got home from his mission about 6 years ago.  He does a great job as Branch President and he is also our personal electrician, a vocation he learned with the help of the PEF fund of the church

I am really hoping this isn't where they harvest mosquito's to promote more malaria, but maybe...     It is really beautiful.  This is at a resort where a lot of white people stay when they come to run the river rapids.

The sugar cane grows this tall all over the country.  They will harvest it, burn the fields, then plant again, getting three crops a year.  There isn't any crop rotation that we can see, things just keep growing.  They also have tea fields that grow all over the countryside.  

It gives a whole new meaning to the word "Stowaway"  or "hitchhiker".  There is ALWAYS room for one more

The most surprising and unexpected beauty here are these random idyllic scenes - The trees just don't always seem real because of the perfect way they grow unencumbered by arborists  - and then look how this man just picked that very spot to sit in the shade and rest.  Sorry all my shots are just out the car window.

I said; "Sit Monkey"  (just like my granddaughter taught me to say to a monkey).  So here is his best pose.

They just have short attention spans

Maybe letting me know he was tired of the posing all day just for the camera.  These Monkeys were playing on the fence just outside a school

I know it is too hard to see these monkeys.  They are long-red-tailed monkeys and they are scrambling so fast I can never get their picture.  (Yes Mylee, I told them to pose!  They're a little more naughty than the white monkeys)  Behind the trees is the Nile River

All roads lead to Lake Victoria

This is one of the better roads we have been on.  (P-day explains the Levis - but nothing explains why we color coordinated our clothing that day)

The Lake borders several countries.  This pier is not in use anymore

There is a lot of fishing in the lake.  We often order the Talapia which is caught here when we go to restaurants