The house is almost ready!!

Well, we've spent the last 2 days buying beds, mattresses, appliances, rugs, and curtains and today we finally began moving the stuff into our new house!

Here's a photo of the delivery truck bringing everything in one load to our house!

Here’s a view of the front of the house.

The garage is the big set of doors towards the left-hand side. We’re planning to convert it into our home school room (below) by throwing down some carpet and putting a few desks in there. The big doors allow for a very nice breeze through the room, which should make it very pleasant for studying!

For our kitchen, we purchased a fridge/freezer combo and a tintsy-tiny electric stove (they call it a "cooker"). We probably won’t be able to cook a turkey in this bad boy, but we could probably bake a chicken. In any case, we’re thankful to have a stove at all, so we’ll take what we can get!

The boys’ room is really taking shape with two sets of bunk beds. We wanted to make sure that we had a spare bed for friends to spend the night.

Just outside our front gate is a big soccer field where the neighborhood kids play. I think we’ll turn it into a football/baseball field, too!

Tomorrow we get to hang the mosquito (or as they say here, the "masqueeto") nets and maybe try to get some carpet for the living room as well as some couches and dining room table/chairs. Monday we go to try to get a vehicle. I'll be so glad when all this "startup" work is done so our lives can settle into somewhat of a normal routine!

We have arrived in Uganda!

Hello to all of you. I (Heather) just wanted to put out a short, but sweet blog. We are very busy getting everything we need to make our new home "liveable". The house is brand new (praise the Lord), so it is completly unfurnished. So, our days have been filled with alot of shopping.

We have hired a driver for one week to take us everywhere. Driving here could be explained in a seperate blog of it's own. We will have to post a video for you to see what traffic is really here in Uganda. We complety believe God has sent us this particular driver on purpose. He has become our translator/tour guide/price negotiator/friend, that doesn't want us to get cheated when we buy anything. Us "white" folks are charged a higher price because we have more money.

We have spent time will the kids at Hope Children's Home and we can't wait to deepen are relationships with the children. They are so amazing! We so cherish them!



God is so good and he has been with us every step of this adventure.

As soon as we become somewhat settled, we will blog more, and more often.

Stay tooned!

Danny and Heather video blog

Only 9 days until we leave (the 17th)! It's hard to believe that after all this time of waiting it's finally here. All the last minute details are falling into place perfectly.

Below is a video blog that Heather and I put together to tell you a little bit about Show Mercy and to share some of our hearts about what we'll be doing in Uganda.