children of God

Hello all !  

so i have decided to update my blog a little sooner then i normally would because i feel like to much has happened to just let it sit for a while .. i dont want to forget all the good details !

so yesterday we went into a village in gulu to hand out clothing and groceries to in need families. this village is is all mud hutts and naked children and women because they cannot afford clothes,

we got all these groceries simply from fundraising money over a group on face book while we were all here in africa, we raised about 400 dollars and that got us enough clothes to cloth 600 children and enough groceries to feed 200 families 

so we organized the whole event wiht the pastor in the community church and he helped us and got local volunteers to help us distribute the clothes and groceries to prevent riots. it was amazing to see there selflessness in helping us we would have been lost without them.

 it was so much fun we got to go into the church with all the kids and teach them canadian and american childrens songs and dance with them it was wonderful ! we then later had them all sit and we personally went through and distributed all the the clothes to each children ! and let me tell you it was amazing , it was so wonderful to walk up to a little boy with ripped pants and no shirt and hand him a brand new pair of jeans, or to the girl who is to old to have a shirt ripped in the chest and hand her a new shirt to cover her. there faces just lit over one peace of clothing. It was beautiful but it was for sure madness ! it was a little stressful handing out clothing to 600 people, but i wouldnt have traded any minute of it. 

Later we then got a chance to go out into the comunity and personally hand the groceries to each family and ask them if they would like prayer. now think as a canadian if someone knocked on your door with food and said here can i pray for you? please just picture your reaction.. well for them it was oposite they invited me in. into there mud hut where they had nothing but ratty chairs and dirt floor and a little hand held radio the size of my i pod. i wont forget one lady who said yes but one moment and runs into her house and sweeps then invites me in and fluffs the pillow on her chair and lets me sit down for me to pray for her. it was so beautiful to see the love that they have even though they know that i we have more money if we are able to come to there country but they are not threatened and treat me like an imposter they invite me in and welcome me and offer me little but to them its everything they have. it was truly beautiful experience .. so we got to go to many houses and prayed for many people . the most beautiful experience the whole time was we had a mob of probably 100 children who just followed the whole time we went mud hut to mud hut they ran behind and waited outside every door, and while we would walk they would try and all hold my hand i had kids hanging off me i would be holding hands with a kid in each hand and there would be others holding my fingers , wrists , arms, back pockets , my waist. it was so beautiful I loved it. because to them simple thing like smiling and holding there hand will stick with them forever , they wont forget those things. so later we got the chance just to hangout with the kids, i taught them typical canadian hand shakes and taught them to pound it, now let me tell you i have never seen kids giggle so hard as they do when they give you there first high five , the minute you put your hand up to high five one kid they are attacked by 400 others wanting to get a high five as well. it was awesome ! i truly had a blast doing it. . they also invited us back to there church on sunday to sing some more songs with the church ! so we are going to go back another sunday to do that with them! we think its important to follow up with them, after giving them so much now the important thing is to build relationships and that accountability. so we are going to work hard for that ! 

I learnt a lot today about those kids and i have learned not to be bitter anymore at there life style and not to be sad and hate myself for having all the things i do, because the things we have are gifts from god, and its not if we use them that we are bad people it is if we apprectiate and understand how lucky we are to have these things and remember to give thanks to God when ever we can for all the great things we have.. but i have also learned that its not that god thinks any less of these people and likes us more or thinks we can better handle the money or deserve it more, . he sais in the bible blessed are the poor. and you know it is true. they are searching for god, and one day when they are in heavin they will be so blessed by god because of the battles they have been through .. god hasnt forgotten about these people. if anything he has specially focused on them to have people like us who personally go to see them to teach them about him so they can one day be in heavin,.. he loves all those kids and its making them see that that is the most exciting and hardest part of it all.. i found i was taught that a lot that God loves everyone but do you really remember that, when your sitting and a commercial for a starving kid comes on i think God why? why them? but he has a plan for them just as he does for us.. so really if you look at poverty i dont see it and be sad, i see it as a challenge sent from god. A challenge to look at my life and analyse the things i do, and see what is in front of me and realise what i can do to help these kids. so my challenge now is to not give up, i work at the babies home everyday but its not enough.. i wont rest. im going to keep searching for more things to do like we did today and we are going to keep going to that community to work with the kids and speak to more people about god. ITS GUNNA BE GREAT GUYS . its not about making up money and throwing it at them and buying them things, of course it helps but i learned today sometimes the biggest things to them is what you already have inside you. like taking time to play with them and teach them how to high five, that meant more to those kids than any kind of money. 

so i am learning a lot since being here and my whole outlook on life changes more every single day, and my appreciation for things changes everyday also. so i wanted to share that with you what im learning and hope to encourage you all! i wish you all could have been there today. those kids smiling at you is the biggest high you could ever have. God really does shine through those kids. it was amazing! so everyone keep praying please we need it here ! and also good news if you havent heard obama HAS FINNALLY sent in US troops to uganda and the congo to search and fight against the rebels and joseph coney! THIS IS SUCH AN ANSWER TO SO MANY PRAYERS SERIOUSLY A MIRACLE .. they have been begging that the states would set in for years becuse with there technology they can catch the rebels easy! so they have finally set in and i pray pray they find joseph cony! and rescue all those child souldiers ! so there is a happiness in the country right now! people are really excited about this so we will have to pray that it fixes things and doesnt further create more problems like a potential new war over it. so we hope it will be ok !! as for now im super excited this should be good. if anyone doesnt know who joseph coney is and doesnt kno about the war with child souldiers in uganda google it, it will change your life. 

so thanks guys for all your support and prayers, i would be done without it ! i hope you enjoyed the blog, i hope i didnt get to teacher on ya. just want you all to see where i am here. hahaha and thats it ! :)