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