BAPTISMS - BABY - AND "THE TEMPLE OF DOOM"

This snake on the tree is not real.  But it could have been a replica of the one that used to be at the Temple of Doom.  (More pictures of that at the end of this post)

Transfer dinner - Elders watching conference live on our little laptop.  We will get the DVD in a few weeks - it was not broadcast here.  They were taking notes furiously on all the talks. 

Corn field of Richard and Mariam.  They just planted this a month ago and it is already this tall.  They should get 3 crops a year of corn.  They also sell goats, papaya, and sesame seeds.  You can see Richard way back there working in the field

Baptism of Ezekiel in the Walukuba branch.  He asked Elder B to baptize him because he is SO OLD!    It was a happy day because his family has been members for a long time.

Eziekial with Elder Ballstaedt

With his wife Grace who has been a member for many years.  She has pictures of the temple all over her home.  

This is their darling family

YOUNG SINGLE ADULT ACTIVITY

This was supposed to be a dance.  They love to dance, but I am not sure they paired up male/female

They had a great time.  We are hoping to see if we can get some of them married to each other.  There are 600 YSA in Jinja District.  Yikes, thats a little less than half of the entire church membership here

Dancing without partners.  They are kind of shy and you will never see PDA here

These siblings are such great kids.  (R to L) Flavia is the oldest, then Bernard, and Eunice is the youngest.  They are all really bossy personalities.  I asked them which of them is the "president" of the family since they all seem to want to be in charge of everyone.  They all agreed that it would have to be Eunice who is the youngest.  She is also the only one that served a mission to Kenya.  They have a some younger siblings too, and their mother who was widowed many years ago has taught her children to have very strong testimonies.

Some of the beautiful girls here.  Fatuma (who is the one with a white shirt and levi's) told me how to do my hair that way. They actually weave yarn in their hair.  I hope I can find gray yarn.  Then she will take me to her hairdresser.  

And here are some of the available bachelors.  These are very good men, but all of them should be married!  Francis is the one on the far left, and he is one of my keyboard students and he works very hard at it.  Stephen is the one on the far right, and he is the district YM president.  He is a very good leader.  The man second from the right is Rogers.  He plays the piano beautifully and he taught himself.  I have asked Rogers to take over some of our keyboard lessons which he has agreed to do.  

Waiting in line for refreshments - The good thing about this activity is that  they are all adults and didn't need any supervision, I don't know why we were even there.

They love Saffe (the drink) Chapati, (fried bread) and bananas.  If it was in the USA it would have been cookies

in line for food

WELL HAPPY DAY!  We had a new granddaughter this past week.  Little Gemma.  She is #26 for us and we are thrilled! It doesn't seem like the parents are going to spoil her at all....humm.  She looks like a cute one!

Mwami and his wife own an orphange.  We went to visit them.  Sister Mwami lost a baby just a week ago, but she is back to work at the orphange already. The children were playing some games and singing with us.

Sister Mwami is the woman in the back on the left.  She really should have been home in bed

Pres Wmani is the BP of the Njeru branch

Elder B was trying to get them to pull faces for the camera

This is how we cook when the power is off.  We hold the flashlight under our chin

These ugly birds are huge.  They are storks, exactly like the ones that deliver babies.  They just hang out at the dumpster

he wasn't going to pose for me after I caught him in the dumpster he started off

We discovered the secret hideout of Indiana Jones

They had a restaurant at this one

The river can be peaceful in certain places

At one time, someone dumped a lot of money into this place.  It sits on the shore of the Nile river

Can you remember Indiana Jones running around here?  I am sure he did.....

The trail goes for a long way along the shoreline.  It is so beautiful that it made me wonder if this scene is similar up in Egypt where Moses was set out in his basket as a baby

just across from this pace you can see where they built the Dam

We had to walk a long way into the grounds to the shore of the Nile.  We have no idea who owns this land or who built it up so beautifully

more scenes around the Temple of Doom

in the background is a restaurant but it is vacant right now

Look how interesting this place is

imagine sitting on the edge of the Nile watching the Crocs swim right up on shore

The trail goes around the shoreline.  I wonder if they did some swimming here...

No one was there while we were exploring so we don't know who does the  grounds work or who owns it

It is maintained well, but completely unused.  Maybe Indiana went home

Mariam and Richard often come over to visit us leaving their 3 children home.  They often bring us a Papaya off their tree.  She is an interesting person with a lot to say, but Richard hardly ever talks because he isn't sure about his English skills.  She makes up for his silence pretty well. They live just down the road from us in Jinja branch.  I recorded them singing a cute song for us, but I don't know how to get it on the blog.