Youth Conference Day 2

The girls wanted me to wake them up at 5, so I told them 5:30 and they ended up coming in at 5:20. Needless to say it was an early morning.. The girls all got ready and then we had our quiet times, which was kind of cool to give them an actual chance to do what I tell them to do week after week. From quiet times we headed down to the church and rocked a chipate breakfast and I made coffee for Ryan, Richard, and I, which was honestly a huge blessing to be able to get since were still beat from the day before. We had worship, a devo, and our first session where the pastor of CC Entebbe taught. Then it was Ryan’s turn, he did a good job and we all had some laughs. From there, we began the shuttling to the Botanical gardens. I’m honestly ashamed to even call our “Botanical Gardens” back home by the same name, this place was like a huge forest/park with some of the coolest trees I’ve ever seen, we even saw a coffee plant! It’s right by the lake so the kids had fun hanging out there and just kind of exploring, but it was so unbelievably hard trying to keep 100 kids kind of in line while the only leadership that was there was Richard, Ryan, and myself because the CCE guys didn’t come for a while. It was really a lot of fun just us three getting to have fun laughing and hanging out with some of the students. While we were sitting by the lake at one point, a lady came up to Ryan and told him that he was the most handsome “mzungu” she had ever seen, Richard and I died laughing and that comment will give fodder to hours of good jokes. We then went back to the church after being there for about four hours and just kind of hung around, then they had presentations, and we ended the night there with us watching Nacho Libre while eating dinner. The kids all died during the movie, it was awesome hearing their reactions and their laughter through out the movie. We got home and found that one of our students was missing so Ryan and Richard had to go out and try and find him while I sat by the door and waited, as always there are those little things that come up, they found him and all is well now.