ALL IN A DAYS WORK

I don't know what they use this for

Sugar Cane is on her head

Making used shoes look like new

Try swerving around this going 60 mph!

Cute Elder F. working hard bringing the Gospel to the land of Uganda

Rubbing that dirt in good

Car wash

Hauling

To Market To Market following mom

Children hauling water

I can let the pictures tell their own tale.  But this is what everyday life is like as we drive by in our car.
Sorry the pictures are a little blurry but it is the best I can do as we WHIZZZZ by and I am trying to click the camera
before we pass.  And not to mention the windshield is dirty.  That's my disclaimer.
But as you can see, being an African is a job.

He is on a bicycle.  The black at the bottom of the picture is the dash board of our car

The women carry little snacks in a basket on their heads to sell on the street.  Usually they are little packets of G-nuts which stands for "Ground" nuts, as in from out of the ground.  We know them as peanuts.  They roast them and sell them for a treat

This is a hand-woven mat.  People use the mats for beds, or chairs, or for rugs.

These aren't regular bananas.  They call them "Matokee" and they are cooked before eating.  This is a staple of the diet here

He is not really shining shoes for other people.  He has purchased a bag of used shoes from a humanitarian donated palate.  He now cleans and polishes the shoes and sells them on the road

Shopping day

These bags contain charcoal which is made from the hardwood that grows here

Bread delivery - either he is going to deliver it to various kiosks' or he is trying to sell it himself as he drives around town.  Everything is delivered by "boda" which is a little smaller than a motorcycle and a little bigger than a moped.

All the children pitch in on shopping/selling day

Soda pop delivery by bike.  These bikes have no gears, just brute power

People mover.  Cheaper than a taxi

Coke delivery

Each of these gerry cans full of water weigh about 45 pounds.  It is so heavy that they can't ride the bikes, they just push them along the street.  We see even little children with this kind of load

This is a wheel chair that is powered by hand bike pedals.  We see a huge amount of people who suffer from polio.  Many of the people who live in remote villages do not have access to vaccinations

Hey just waiting for the taxi on a hot day.  It is really rare for women to wear pants, so I thought for a minute it was a man, but she has a purse.  A modern woman

More Matokee delivery, and there is probably some meat wrapped up in the banana leaves

There are market areas along the highway where vendors offer fresh cooked food to people traveling in the taxi's.  Drive-through African version.  

More deliveries

You can buy clothing out in the sidewalk sale area.  Never mind that it rains on everything

Off to market

working

Keeping the matokee protected in the market

hauling water in gerry cans is an everyday chore for everyone

more people movers  -Notice the people on the side of the road going to market for more water or food

Share the load

Spend a day at Macy's

Elder B trying to keep up with the African workers.  Changing the smoke detectors at the Mission Home in Kampala

Hoping all those tires are packed in well

Share the load - these boys were in the middle of the street

GOATS AND BEADS AND A NEW CHAPEL

Sister Gertrude makes paper beads for a living and sells them to many people in the United States.  We arrived one day as she was hanging them out to dry from just dipping them in the varnish.  They are really beautiful.

She also makes beaded purses and sells them

She is showing me the necklaces that she has gotten orders for.  She gave me 4 necklaces when I  told her I had 4 daughters.

She had tons of beads hanging on the rope

I have bought some in every color.  She also makes bracelets to go with them

Rock is in the background teaching Emmie (Gertrude's 12 year old son) how to use a yo-yo

A goat on the Tucker Farm. She is from New Zealand and gives great milk.

Brother Tucker built all these pens in just a few days

His mother is in the background.  His parents live in the brick home.

His father and mother are sitting out in front of the goat pens.  They are both suffering from AIDS

Brother Tucker with his parents

Baby Goat with Brother Tucker and Elder B

This guy was really friendly

The pens

His mother is peeling Casava roots which are the staple diet here.

This is the brand new chapel in Bugembe.  January 1st was the first day they had meetings there

President Kikaire is the Branch President.  

We see things like this all the time on the roads, and this is one of the best roads around.  The traffic cops don't have cars, they wear white and stand in the road to pull people over.  We can usually bribe them with a bible or Book of Mormon to get out of tickets

Hard to focus, same tanker

Rock trying to teach Emmie how to do a yo-yo

He's having a little trouble because he's never seen one before.

I mentioned to Gertrude that the Elders certainly would want to do the dishes, especially since she is always feeding them, so Eunice decided to teach them how.  They were really pleading ignorance on it

Yeah, not getting it

Eunice wasn't going to let them get away without learning

Pres Lafafa and Cephas in front of the Mpumedde chapel

close up

Meeting with Sister Olivia who was home on vacation from her job in Kampala as a dormitory supervisor.  She was just getting ready to kill the chicken for their new years dinner.  She is a darling lady.

We found a resort at the top of the Nile River.  They have a bungie jump to the side where you can get up close and personal with the crocs

Not to mention if you get your head wet, you risk a bunch of parasites.   Look at this drop, are they serious?

Emmie is working on it

Christmas dinner at the Tuckers.  They fed the Elders

Nephi is having some Orange Fanta I brought for him

ya know, we're always sharing the road

Aristotle showing us his chickens of which there are three less after Christmas Dinner

Aristotle loves orange Fanta too

Sister Mercy is expecting another baby in a month

This red dirt is everywhere.  It's dirt in the dry season and mud in the rainy season.  The plants on the side of the road get strangled with it

Some of these roads are 4-wheel only

Normal road

Baking day

Just your average neighborhood road.  Pot holes are a way of life

more roads

The babies are so cute here

Phiona had her baby

so funny how the birds get a ride on the goats

The babies are very afraid of us so they stare at us a lot trying to figure it out

so cute hiding from me

Love Sister Wmami's outfit