Robin's Missions

I'm here! Yay for Yei!

I want to start by saying it's great to be here-- and even though my family has always said I'm full of the beans, well, it's LITERALLY true now- Rarely has a meal gone where beans isn't the staple. I am beginning to realize just how thankful I'll be to have that jar of peanut butter and some granola bars. I've spent most of the last week doing dishes, pumping water, talking with the Sudanese DTS students, cutting snowflakes with the Americans (gotta start christmas prep sometime!), cleaning house, making hospitality cards for the base, and throwing up. I know that last tid bit ("throwing up") will be a great delight for those of you who were secretly, and not so secretly, hoping I'd be like the guys in "Invisible Children"--only it was a sort of type of thing because by dinner i was back on my feet and ready to fully join in the night of praise and worship--African style. Far from the frozen chosen I found myself wiping sweat from my brow and struggling to keep up! But OH what JOY!!! It's been neat to just jump in, even holding a drum for running, singing, dancing preschoolers--delightful chaos for sure!

The trip from Arua, Uganda to Yei was nothing short of a journey...First take the worst road you've been on and make it 10 times worse and then multiply that by 7 hours- I have never been happier to get to my destination. Seriously, these roads make some of the "horrid" American roads (potholes and all) feel like silk-- In any given moment the side, or even the middle, of the road might just simply be gone-- I'm fairly convinced that with decent roads the trip could have been cut in half at least! Crossing the border was smooth, what a blessing, and it helped to have a local walk us through the crossing (I went with staff from the Yei base, good bonding time!). I must say bumps and all it was a safe journey- Had I left Arua on Saturday with Pastor Sam (as orginally planned) i would have had a greater adventure to tell you-- His bus caught fire and they had to jump through the windows...then they had to hitch a ride the rest of the way- So yes, it all went pretty smoothly for me!

I'm looking forward to really exploring Yei, this is my first outting from the base- I might get to help out with school, women's, prision, and orphan ministries...um, it's Africa, we're still trying to figure it all out...and also how to get me places... it's a rather interesting thing when you have to push the truck to start it-

bed time is early, the generator died, so lamps and flashlights keep us going until we drift off to sleep-

A closing thought...if mosquito nets hold out teeny-tiny little things like mosquitos, shouldn't they also hold out HUGE spiders? yeah, that's what I thought... until I found one in my bed the first night..Luckily, unlike Australia, none of them are really poisenous... i'm still watching for snakes!

God bless and I hope you're having grand adventures of your own!!! God is good! :)