So now Pete’s back and the Uganda adventure 2008-2009 is officially over for now!
Last week Pete went to visit Jacky (see Plague comes to Kuluva) the 13yr old girl who survived having plague meningitis but sadly her other family died from the disease. On the way to her village the driver who brought her to Kuluva last year was telling the story of how her family originally refused to allow her to come to hospital because they thought she would die and only agreed when the driver promised that if she did he would bring her body back to the village- that’s how sick she was. When we got to her home I didn’t recognise her because she looked so healthy, she’d put on some weight and was smiling! The only problem was that she had a slight weakness in the grip of her left hand but she said that it didn’t affect her at school. I felt really emotional seeing her again she shouldn’t have survived but God did something amazing with her and she recovered. Seeing her healthy and happy was the highlight of the whole year. As I was leaving she gave me a live chicken which I nearly dropped because it was flapping so wildly in my hands! I couldn’t bring myself to eat it so it’s been named ‘Pete’ and been given to one of our friends on the condition that it shouldn’t be eaten and should be allowed to live a good life. When I saw it before leaving it was having the time of its life the only male chicken surrounded by 7 females so it’s safe to say that he’ll enjoy the rest of his life!
Looking back at the year as a whole its been an amazing experience we’ve no regrets about going and certainly no regrets about going back. We’ll miss our friends over in Uganda and will continue to pray for them and the hospital and we’d ask you all to do the same.
We’re not sure what the future holds but we know who holds the future so we’ll keep trusting Him. We’re hoping to join the E3 guys for a mission in January 2010 so watch this space…..
P+E
