Arua...

Sorry friends, I can't believe it has been a whole month since I have written. My Internet time was strictly limited up in Aura. As you may have read our trip up to Arua was an adventure! The first week there held a few challenges for me. I had being ignoring a certain tooth ache while in Kampala, hoping the pain would soon subside. But it just happen to get worse day by day. I can honestly say it was the worst pain I have ever felt...I was desperate to get relief...chewing on tea bags no longer worked...biting down on a wet washcloth was failing...holding warm water in my mouth as long as possible was my only bit of relief...then came the time I could no longer take it! I got over my stubbornness (and fear) and admitted I really need to see a dentist. The slight problem being that the current dentist in Arua just the year before was the janitor at the "dentist office", if you can call it that (no offense to janitors). So Arua was out of the picture, that left Kampala, but our first dentist contact could not get me in til the end of the week. Thanks to a friend who had a few dental visits in Kampala I found a dentist who could get me in the very next day...but how would I get there?? Eagle Air to the rescue!!! Thanks to much prayer and our friends at Eagle Air I was able to get the only flight out of Arua the very next day and make it to the dentist!! I would say it was the best dental experience I have ever had, even though I ended up having a root canal ;) It could not have worked out better. The whole time I was hurting I kept thinking of the hundreds, probably thousands of Ugandans that are suffering with some pain and how is affects every part of their life. As funny as it may sound that tooth ache crippled me from doing what was set before me in Arua the first week I was there. All I could think of was the constant pain I was in which gave me no desire to do ministry or even be in Arua. One silly tooth caused so much trouble. It really makes me feel for those who are suffering and cannot find relief, but yet they still press on, it's the African way. I hope we all can pray for those people, whoever they maybe or wherever...