Saturday, April 28, 2012




We are back in Butebi at the clinic construction site, but now it is just the three men;  Harry, Dennis and Ed.  The blog will be lacking the flavor and detail that you have enjoyed with Stephanie at the helm, but I'll try to keep you informed as best I can.

We had a horrible night (not sleeping) in Kampala.  Our guide did not want us driving the road at night back to Mityana for safety reason, so we stayed at a hotel in Kampala.  It was quite the adventure.  Since we had not eaten they prepared some food before we went to our rooms well after midnight.  When we got to the rooms we were all excited to take a shower since it had been a couple days.  Dennis managed to get enough water to soap up before it shut off, Harry and I didn't even get wet before it shut off.  The next morning they told us the man who runs the water pump was not at work yesterday!?!?!?!?  Crazy that only one guy can make the water system work for an entire hotel. All night long a local church was BLASTING over large speakers repetition prayers until 5 am!!!, then the kitchen staff was busy banging pots and plates to make sure we never went to sleep.

We had a nice visit with our friend Wycliffe as we ate breakfast.  He and Vincent headed back to Entebbe to collect our bag from the airport.  Remember yesterday we got the letter releasing it, but they didn't give it to us until they knew we would not have enough time to pick it up yesterday.  Later in the day, after noon they called and said they had the medical bag in hand!!!! yeah!!! It only took two weeks and kept trying to get us to bribe them to release it, we stood our ground and didn't allow the corruption to extend to us.  We all said a great pray of thanks for God's hand in getting us the bag.

We finally go to the clinic site at noon and were very please to see the progress that happened while we were away.  The local workers are doing a great job and were so glad to see us back.  We now have all of the walls inside and out on both halves of the building up to the top of the window and door tops.  They have also started forming the concrete/iron header beams that will top the existing layer. before we left for the day we had two walls to their final height.  I can see a roof in our future.

We all came back, showered!!! and ate dinner.  I think we are all glad tomorrow is a day of rest.

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