We’re still waiting to meet with the social worker (scheduled for Tuesday) to begin this new malnutrition program. We're praying that we'll get clearance at this meeting and not have to go back again.
I will blog when we get the new children.

Wednesday will be our first day with Constance, the nurse. SHC is hiring Constance to come once a week and have a medical clinic here at the house. (This will be very helpful for Renee in take some of the load.) We are going to start encouraging people to come on Wednesdays only when they need medical care, and we will see only emergencies on other days.

When I first came here to Uganda, I was so hit by all the smells. Everything had a smell to me: children, clothes, the town, stores, central market..., but now I hardly notice any of it. The only smell that I will never get used to, is the smell of the fish drying area on the road into Jinja. That place smells so bad that I almost always hold my breath! It’s nasty! :) I feel bad for those that work there.

Something exciting that I’ve forgotten to share until now is that the Lord is opening up the compound next door for SHC to rent! The house we are in now, is not very ideal for the malnutrition program, but it works great for Renee’s needs and the feeding program, so SHC would like to rent both. It's Renee’s desire that the mothers of the children in the program not stay in such an Americanized home. She wants them to stay somewhere more familiar and not so different from their culture; this will also make the transition back home much easier. The neighboring compound will be used to house the mothers of children in the program and possibly employees.

The landlord currently has renters, but their lease will be up in three months and she would love for us to rent. Since Renee is going to America in June, she doesn’t really need this property until her return in July, but we may need to start renting early in order to insure that we get it. (This may be best anyways because it could use some fixing up.) What a blessing from the Lord this is!

I have yet to tour the house myself, but I’ve heard a lot about it. I hope to get pictures of it and post them here for all of you.
I haven’t been very diligent in taking pictures these past few weeks, but I hope to turn that around here soon and get some good pictures for my blog. I know that’s what everyone really wants to see. :)

Pray for me that I would discover more of the person God made me to be and the gifts He put in me. I look around at those I am with, and I think, “Wow! They have so many gifts, and are good at so many things.” And of course, I follow that by thinking, “I’m not good at anything! I can never be as talented as them. They matter more than I do and rightly so; I mean they're amazing.” I find it very hard after having this train of thought to recognize even one of my gifts, and I struggle to feel worth anything. Why God would give some people so many gift and others so few?
I realize that I’m probably not thinking about this correctly, but that is where I’m at right now, and I’m very ready to not be here (in this state of mind) anymore. I appreciate your prayers.