Final Day of the Tournament

Yesterday was a loooong day! We were out at the school by 9:30am for church at True Worship Center and then the day ended with dinner back at the Sityo's 8:30pm. Church was not "Lutheran":) We sang and danced and clapped. It is a different way to worship and it is good to see different ways. The people are so in love with Jesus! When it was time for children's church, Marilyn, Martha, Sarah M. and S., Irene and I went to another building where all the children were gathered. Mo, and Todd stayed to listen to Pastor Ken's sermon. Robert interpreted for him and Sarah S. interpreted for us. I don't know the topic of his sermon, but it had to do with Peter. The children's talk was given by my mom, Martha. She did a short review of the story we did last year and then tied it in with being a disciple and a "fisher of men". The kids were very attentive and liked the big pictures we brought. Sarah M. then led singing...she taught them the song...My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God can not do"! We did it with the motions and they loved it. What I thought was really cool was that the visiting student athletes were there and so they heard the message too. They had kids lined up looking in the windows to see. We gave out the fish bean bags and fish crackers at the end and you would have thought it was Christmas.  They played with them all day...some I think were curious to find out what was inside, so there were a lot of fish that were taken apart and flat by the end. Once that was done we ate lunch and then the tournament started again. We sat most of the day watching soccer and netball. The girls won, although the final game I heard was a nail biter! Robert, of course, is unable to watch because of his anxiety. I said Robert you need to stay and support your team...He said " Do you want to watch me die?" Everyone laughed! He can't stay on the school ...he has to drive away and come back when it is finished:) The boys got 2nd place like they did last year. There game was a nail biter too. It ended up with a shoot out at the end. For those who won there was much celebrating,  and singing. It was close to evening when the prizes were handed out...so we left the school and it was dark outside...all the visiting schools started to walk home. They gave away the 2 bulls...one for Fountain and then prize money, medals, trophys and soccer balls. I do have to tell you that there were officials there for the tournament that came from Kampala. They were so impressed with the FOH netball team, they said that they are the best team they have ever seen in any of the villages. They invited them to play their teams in Kampala on Wed. Robert said they will be going and he was happy that they will be challenged in their playing so they can only get better. All in all the tournament went very well. We ended the day pretty exhauasted, came home, ate dinner and fell into bed. Today we are taking the morning kind of slow. We plan to make of list of things we need to buy for sponsored students and there families. We will go after lunch and do our shopping. I feel so fortunate to be here among these people. Much love to all of you.

Beth