Osibyotwa!

(Amy) Osibyotwa!
Thank you for all for your prayers and support, love and encouragement! It means so much. The trip has been amazing, challenging, so much fun, difficult, exciting, heart-wrenching, exhausting, and completely wonderful.

For those of you who followed my blog while I was in Uganda this summer, you know that Jessie and I were VERY dilligent to blog and post about each days' activities and what we were doing - I want to apologize for me not having been able to keep you as up-to-date this trip. I had good intentions of keeping a similar blog this time, but it has just not been possible. Leah has tried to be better and I appreciate her trying to fill you in! But I was taling to my mom the other day and just told her that it has not been possible to blog like I had wanted to, but for various reasons it has just not been possible, but thank you for your prayers and encouragement and for caring about this crazy mzungu white girl trying to follow God's direction and leading in her lif - dragging her brother and her friend with her halfway aroud the world - all the while trying to keep her head on straight! Thank you - from the bottom of my heart.

Directing and fully running a Baby Home has been such an honor (I mean, who gets to do this????!!!!?!?!?!), a privilege (who gets to be "mommy" to 16 beautiful black babies who love you to death??!!), and yet difficult and challenging, as would be expected. But God has walked with me and led me each step of the way - of that I am 100% certain, as I don't believe I would be here if He hadn't been. He truly is an awesome God!

I love these babies. and I love these people. and I love this baby home.
My heart truly does feel a peace and a home here - these people took me in this summer, loved me, and cared for me - and they wanted me to join with them in this beautiful privilege of a mission to save babies in Uganda.

God has been working in overdrive since we got here!!! :) He has done so much in me and through me (and all of us, I would say - I'll speak for Mark and Leah too!!) that I just stand in awe. He has worked miracles, gone above and beyond dreams and expectations, turned me upside-down, emptied me of myself (daily!) and filled me with Him, taken me to my knees, comforted me when all I could do was weep at Jesus' feet, and laughed with me when I have been overjoyed. I've kept Him pretty busy, huh?!

There have been so many things that have happened and gone on in my life and heart and with the home while I've been here, and I'm sorry that I have not been able to share all that God has done and is doing, and all of my thoughts and emotions, but let me just say - GOD IS WORKING and moving in a mighty way to use Sonrise Baby Home to save dying babies and to bring Him glory. Praise to HIS name!

I hope you have enjoyed the pictures - I know they are not many, but be reassured, we HAVE taken over 3,000 so far, so you will see more and more later as well! I have a TON of pictures of "my" babies - and I have to keep trying to get pictures of other people, but they are just so unbelievably cute!!!!! :) I just can't help it :)

Well, tomorrow we will be heading to Kampala and will spend the night there before leaving early on Monday morning for our safari! :) Having already been on one this summer, I have felt kind of guilty for getting to go again, so I'll admit I haven't been very excited, especially knowing that my time is running out with the babies and being here, but Lark and Leah are VERY excited about the safari - and their excitement and anticipation has helped my excitement grow as well :) We will be gone on the actual safari Mon-Wed but will most likely stay in Kampala on Wed night and then head back to Sonrise on Thursday. All this to say, we most likely will not have any internet access during that time, but if we do - we will try to post more pictures and updates about any Simba or Nala spottings!!! :)

May God bless you! (oh, and Musa just finished his bottle and is attempting to sleep, but on behalf of His Royal Cuteness, I'll say "Goodnight"!)