I've been living in Uganda 1 year!!!

Today marks my one year anniversary of living in Uganda. In some ways it feels like just yesterday I got off that plane, and then some days it feels like I have lived here FOREVER! All I can say is God is so faithful! I've gone from waking up with a nauseous 'pit' in my stomach to being able to actually function and enjoy living here (some days) :) Look here at Christy's website for more details of those first days in Uganda. (Which by the way without her those first 2 months would have been even worse...I thank God for sending me with Christy).

There were seriously some days that I didn't know if I was going to make it or not. Even though I had been on several short term overseas trips....visiting a 3rd world country for 2 weeks and actually living there are two totally different things. I really feel like my supporters' prayers help kept me here! Thank you all. Seriously it means so much to me, and I can 'feel' your prayers. People often ask me if I knew what was 'in store' would I still have come to Uganda....and I have to say 'yes'. Even though the first 6 months were some of the hardest months of my life, without them I wouldn't have come to learn of God's love, sovereignty and faithfulness the way I have. Of course it's easy to say that now that those times are over, but then again only God knows what is in store. When I first came here I thought I could never live overseas long term, but the more I am here the more I wonder how I will ever go back the American life after living in Uganda. But not to say that I won't be extremely excited to go home when that time comes :) When I think about all I've 'survived' (food poising, learning how to cook from scratch, a jigger in my toe, flipping my truck and numerous other car problems, learning how to drive a stick shift on the opposite side of the road (which I think by the way makes more sense than the U.S.), living alone in a big house, and a lot of other things I would never have done in America) and all I've learned (about myself, how to speak a little Runyankore, care of HIV/AIDS patients, how to work with people of a totally different culture, and so much more) I feel like I am a completely different person at times. It's been a year I will never forget that's for sure, but my time is far from being over....I still have 10 months left! More crazy stories and adventures to come.....