Sunday, May 2, 2010



These are the tomato plants we are growing on on our balcony patio. This is one month's growth. Should have some edible fruit in another month. Penny is sending some more seeds. Those should arrive in about a week, or maybe six months. Ya never know.

Seat belts do save lives!


And miracles do happen. This is the result of Elder Flinders avoiding hitting a bicycle unexpectedly crossing the highway. There were four elders in the truck. Just moments before, one of them in the back seat reminded the other he should be wearing his seat belt which he buckled. They all walked away with no injuries. Elder Flinders tried to find the bicycle rider to assure him they were okay, but he took off probably thinking he had killed someone. Not to worry. We don't drive this highway very often.

Sunday, April 11, 2010


This is Mimi. She's about the cutest thing I've seen in Uganda. During our priesthood meeting she wandered in our room and climbed up into my lap. She likes to play with my arm hair. Just one of the many blessings here.
For our activity day we played "Ultimate Frisbee". We couldn't find a real Frisbee so we used a very soft ball. We found some pseudo Frisbees but thought it might not be a great idea to be knocking out teeth.


Tuesday, March 23, 2010


As many of you know, I can't get enough pictures of these kids carrying water. The little boy here is "in training", carrying a small jerry can that holds about a quart of water.
This is the graduating class from the first career workshop we had the opportunity to teach. It's an excellent two day program created by the church and required before students can get a Perpetual Education loan. Very fun people to teach.

This is a photo of the front end our our car. Fortunately, not too serious. Since it was done by a government vehicle, the police said nothing would be done, after all..."This is Africa".

Below is a photo of some traffic. Here we are on a two lane street with all the cars going in our direction taking up both lanes. Very typical. Haven't had a chance to ask them, "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?"