I've been asked multiple times if I was going to start a blog telling of my trips to Uganda, truthfully I didn't even know how to start a blog... As you can tell I have figured it out!!
You may have seen my title...not of this post, but the whole blog. If you haven't, take a look :) Yesu Akwagala means Jesus loves you in Luganda. What an amazing thing Jesus loves you, so simple but unbelievable to understand..Jesus loves me. Me even me, after all I've done He loves even me. I'm so glad I learned this phrase I can now tell all the children I meet that Jesus loves them in their own language!
Anyways let me tell you a little more of what I have done. It has been almost a year since my first trip to Uganda. The place where I left a piece of my heart.
With faces like this I'm sure you can understand why it is so hard to leave and why I love going back.
But it wasn't all sunshine and roses. I was going to be gone for 2 weeks and I was traveling alone which was a first for me. I made all my flights and arrived safely, praise the Lord. But when I got to Entebbe, Uganda and walked out of the airport. All I wanted to do was turn around and book a flight back home, I was scared. I didn't know anyone and I wondered what I had gotten myself into.
But God is good and provides every time. I met an amazing woman of God from the states. Mama DeDe was serving at the orphanage the same time I was. We hit it off right away! Everything we did we found joy. DeDe was like a mom and a best friend all in the same person!
This doesn't really tell you anything I did..so I had the honor of volunteering for a great organization. Raising up Hope for Uganda (RUHU). The staff has some of the biggest hearts I have ever seen there is always room to help one more child. When I was there last December the children were off of school. So I was blessed to spend a lot of time just loving on them and helping providing everyday needs. I also spent a lot of time at the hospital with one of the kids who hurt is back and had to stay in the hospital 5 days. We also did a slum outreach to street children. This was like nothing I have ever seen. I will go more in depth on other posts about what all happens when I am there.
I wish I could say that my trips are all about the children, all about what is being done for them. Which it is all about them but it is also about me how my life changes because of what I've experienced half way around the world. You see when I am there most days I don't have power, never a TV, my friends aren't there, neither is my family. So you understand with nothing to distract me, I found God in a very real way. It really is true when you bless others, you are blessed just as much if not more.
May God bless you all
With much love
Alyssa
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