Week 67

Turn the page - Bob Seger

We see this stuff all the time here.

"Here I am, on the road again" the old song says. Elder Gilbert and I were pretty happy to have the chance to go down to Kampala for transfer day, but as the pages turned we found ourselves stuck in Kampala a little longer than anticipated.

Wednesday morning we set off for Kampala. The plan was to get my truck into the shop a bit early so that a service and some minor repairs could be started and completed with enough time to spare that would allow us to make the return trip on Thursday morning along with all of the other transfers. We spent most of Wednesday in the Office with the Office Elders. We managed to sneak away with the office elders' truck for long enough to visit some of Elder Gilberts converts, run some errands, and get some lunch at a nice restaurant (some nice spicy pork burritos at Java House). We kept going with a blind expectation that the plan was still A-go. Wednesday evening 

Turn the page to Thursday morning after our morning run with President Collings, and

this too...

seeing off everybody else who was transferring, the truck hadn't even been taken into the garage yet, and was still waiting in the queue. We began to brace ourselves for an extra night in town. The transfer crowd at the Kololo Chapel dwindled down to just us, another sister, and the assistants. The AP's drove us to KFC to grab lunch and then dropped us right back where we started... the office.

We tried to stay busy there, and not go too crazy. Thankfully Elder Hyer is good company to be around. Eventually we got hungry and went to another fancy restaurant called Cafe Javas for dinner, once again in the Office Elders truck. Night two was spent at the AP's apartment. We had to hand was our clothes so we had something to wear on Friday. 

Turn the page to Friday. This time around our faith that the truck would soon be finished was diminished enough that we made some plans to go and proselyte with some nearby Elders. We finalized some things at the office, got a van to drive over there and arrived in time to join them for lunch. Once the Biscuits and Gravy were gone (Thanks Elder Palmer and Elder Godfrey) we headed out the gate to get to work. Not an extra moment went by before Brother Godfrey called informing us that the truck was ready to go. However, there was a catch... we had to wait at the office for one more thing. Things were looking bleak for hopes of even heading back Friday night, but everything was taken care of by 5:00. With a little hesitance we were given the clear to go back that night, but if it had been any later we would have stayed another night.  As we drove back we got a call from President Collings asking if we were okay. We were a bit confused. Turns out, we narrowly missed a huge storm complete with swirling clouds hitting Kampala. All we saw was a light drizzle... made it back home around ten.

Anyway, we were glad to have made it back Friday night because we have many people to get ready for baptism and the area needed us. We couldn't bear the thought of our companions trying to juggle two areas full of work any longer. I am grateful that everything worked out just right! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Winn

Don't be like this guy... He's trying to sleep and drive