November 24th, Friday was the last day of teaching for the week and we have planned to only do a half day since we needed to deliver the other 4 gift "baskets" to the elderly ladies after class. We arrived at 10:30am but couldn't teach until 11:30am because people attending were not on time.
I taught the whole group together. It started raining hard at about 1:20 PM and I could not continue since no one could hear my interpreter over the rain on the metal roof. The plan was to stop at 1pm but I wanted to finish with the topic I had started. Once the rain let up i finished as soon as I could while still doing a good job. The class ended up progressing until 2:30pm, unfortunately.
Next we delivered the 4 gift "baskets". We had to hike a long distance (15 minutes maybe but I was starting to have a sore throat) to deliver 2 of the baskets. Again since it was getting late and people were hungry having not eaten anything since breakfast, we gathered 2 ladies in one house.
One basket had to be delivered separately. The rain had prevented one lady from making the journey. If you look at the photos you will wonder how anyone that age made the journey! I have a lot of respect for the elderly here in Uganda.
This time I shared the gospel with the elderly. I was nervous and hoped I didn't sound all knowing or prideful or made them feel less because I definitely respect them. I used a method my mom taught me and put my own twist on it. Since they are in the mountains, I used that to create a picture. I'll summarize it below:
"In the beginning God created man and woman to have a close relationship with each other. Man and woman sinned they had to move off God's mountain to another mountain that was not good. Now there was a big valley between God's mountain and man's mountain. In the valley there was sin. Sin prevented man from crossing over and God, being holy, could not leave His mountain. But God longed to be close to man again and have a relationship with him.
So God sent His only Son, Jesus, to die on the cross to provide a bridge for man to cross over. But man had to choose to cross over. He had to accept that he sinned and he needed to believe that Jesus was God's Son and that he was the only way to heaven. He needed to choose to cross the bridge.
Everyone has to make that choice. God wants a relationship with everyone so He told all God's to go tell everyone about His love. I made that choice and now God told me to share about His love whether in United States or traveling. Theses gifts are just something small that my church raised money to present to you to share God's love. "
Something like that. Probably less elegant than that at the time. Anyway then I presented the gifts. We needed to carry one basket back to give to the 4th lady who was located next to the church. I shared with her about the same story, praying all the time that what I said would be helpful. She seemed to agree so she might have been a Christian. I wish I could have heard their feedback and engaged in a conversation but each time I was whisked away by the Pastor, who was interpreting for me. At least they heard the Way.
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