Sunday we worshiped with the Fort Portal Church again. During worship we would get together with 2 or 3 people and pray together. I enjoyed this practice very much. We would pray for each other and for whatever requests we talked about. It was an intimate time with God and with the Ugandans we were praying with/for. After communion the kids and speaker were called to the front and someone would offer a prayer of thanksgiving, protection and hope on behalf of them. What another wonderful way to use prayer in worship!
Some of the church members had a hard time getting to worship today because of the riots that were happening in Kenya. The cost of fuel sky rocketed while we were there. Because petrol was not coming from Kenya, the government of Uganda decided it was best for the city of Kampala to have most of the petrol in the country. A fuel truck even pumped petrol out of a fuel tank at a gas station in Fort Portal to take it back to Kampala. With that being written, petrol was in high demand. The highest price we saw it was around $12 a gallon. Americans are complaining about $3 a gallon and here in Uganda it was $12 (and these people really can’t afford that).
Church ended and we headed to lunch at Mountains of the Moon Resort. For lunch I had a 2 liter bottle of water, fillet mignon and potatoes. I paid $13 for fillet mignon. There is something not right about that. It was good though!
We went back to the hotel (Rwenzori View Guest House) and rested some. We had dinner at the hotel and then called it a night. Greg had the Smore Fest (everytime Greg comes he brings smore stuff and Kinley, Alex, Isaac and Silas have smores).
On Monday we went to a waterfall that was close to town and some caves (they really weren’t caves just some indentions in the rock). I did find a tree that intrigued me though. Here is a picture of the flower that was on it. One of the interesting things about this tree was the bloom was only on half of the tree. The left side of the tree was green and the right side was bare with these flowers on it.
Monday afternoon some of the team went swimming at Mountains of the Moon. I sat on the lawn chair and read some in one of the books I brought. It was a nice relaxing
day. Tomorrow we would head to a village and spend some time with the Ugandans there.
