Feb 1 We’ve reached Mbale!
The roads are a little rougher than I remember. We settled into our new house, it’s a 475 square foot 3 bed room place that will be a little cozy for all of us. We had dinner over at the Tylers and we thought it fortunate that we had power, but in the middle of dinner it went out. It is supposed to be pretty consistant 48 hours on and 24 hours off, but I guess it doesn’t always follow that rule. Melissa and I woke up in the pre-dawn hours of our first morning to candles and head lamps to read and work by (she’s painting a picture). The rains are still here, which is not suppose to happen this time of year which will make building interesting.
It's now Sunday Feb 4th
Fri-We unpacked, got set up and oriented to the new place and then I went to the site and staked out the building. Went to dinner at Tyler's power went out...1st night in darkness, but our hearts were glad to be here.
Sat- I (Tom) got up early 3AM, after 7 hours of sleep...power is on, but went off again for a couple of hours. I reached the work site at 7AM and the digging had begun, but we got stopped by some authorities and will sort that out on Monday.
Sun-I have finally gone ot one of our fiends to use their internet connection. We had thought we'd have our place all set up for that, but the folks were staying with, the Shero's...Phillip is real sick so we haven't been able to set it up. So for now our e-mails and blogging will be kinda sporadic. We went to Church this morning and will go to a Bible study toight.