Day 11

Sunday! One of my favorite days :)

We got to go to the church on campus today and I was PUMPED!! Michelle (the MUBS student who is a Christian) was telling me about it; its the church that she attends. We got there and it was this tiny room on campus (the switched to that room temporarily since most of the students had gone home after finals) with a little podium thingy up front and a cross sign on the wall (you can see a picture of this when i figure out how to post them on facebook from here, not as easy as you'd think!). It was a group of about 15 of us from Drake (I had been praying for 10 :) and we took up pretty much the entire middle section of the room and no one else was there until 5 minutes after it was supposed to start (I think they're on Walnut Creek Time, haha). It started with a hymn and then a few prayers. Then the pastor guy said a special welcome to us and then the started the worship section (this is what I was most excited for, I love worship!) It was a small choir of about 5 singers and they went all out. The room literally exploded with praise! It was all praise songs with a million allelujah's and praise the Lords! It reminded me a lot of the typical baptist church with everyone dancing and clapping and stuff, it was sooooo great to let go of everything and just praise God! God is so good!

Then they started the announcements that they do before the sermon and they told us about a mission trip that the church is having to another city in Uganda. They said something like "we're supposed to be going to teach them about business but of course we're gonig to share the gospel with them on top of it!" How cool!

We had to leave right after this because of our schedule unfortunately so we missed the sermon part of it. We then headed to a special needs school/orphanage to tour it. Emily and I had brought a big bag of clothes, shoes, and books to leave there for them. It's a really cool school. It's mission is to help out disabled children but they do a 5:1 normal to disabled ratio. This is so the school can afford things and to show the disabled kids that they are loved and they can live a normal life. It was really cool. There were a few kids there (but not many since it was a sunday) and it was kind of heart-breaking seeing the disabilities. The most inspiring girl was a girl who was born with no arms so she does everything with her legs. They showed us her school books and her "footwriting" was even better then mine! Also, she is best friends with a blind girl so they are always with each other helping each other out. That was really encouraging!

Then we headed to a park for lunch and to just hang out where we all caught up on the homework part of the class (yes, we have work to do while we're here, haha. fun stuff) and I got to get to know a few of the MUBS girls better. We then headed to the chairman of MUBS house (it's a mansion, crazyness) for dinner. While we were there I got to share the gospel with one of the girls I had been getting to know in the park. She is a 7th Day Adventist and I'm pretty sure she is a Christian. Or at least if she isn't then she is sooo close. Emily is pretty close with her as well so I'm glad that she has the chance to see our lives.

Praise the Lord for a wonderful day!

I love you all!