A Day When Camera Was Held Hostage

This morning we drove 1 hour to the airport to get Danny's camera which was held in customs awaiting us to come and pay taxes...duty. It was sent back to America in January, and he sent it to Canon. It was repaired and mailed to Timothy and he in turn sent to our FedEX friend, Paul in Lakeland to mail to us. We were called by FedEx yesterday and told that we must go to airport because they could not deliver. Plus, we had to go into Kampala and find their office, which was quite harried, and get paperwork. We left about 8:30 a.m. today and got there at 9:30 and began the vigil. Danny was told that he should have not sent it out of the country without paperwork and they continued to tell him that it was new and it would cost 1,200,000 Ush, which is about $600 in U.S. dollars. We were shocked and sick....we did not have the money and certainly did not feel we should pay it. Danny was sent to 3 different offices and to two of those twice and we spent a lot of time in coffee shop waiting. After 3 hours we were finally given the camera which we had to pay 90,000 Ush, about $55. We felt still scathed but what can you do...you are at their mercy and just so grateful to get it and get out of there. We had prayed hard because we would have just had to let it be returned by Fed EX to Timothy. That would have been expensive but not $600. So God was good to us. Then we traveled an hour back home. So our day was consumed with this one project. Danny is so happy to have it back...he has missed it so much.

We have no power now...it was to have been off today and I was wanting to do my hair tonight...but it went out a bit ago and my battery is low on computer so must shut down.

Danny gets to preach tomorrow and he is looking forward to that. He has to get up at 5:00 a.m. to go back to airport to take our strategy leader, John, and his family to fly to Nairobi for testing on their little 4 year old girl. Pray for them. Then we have a planning meeting about our Annual General Meeting at the end of this month after church with the rest of the team. He then goes with one of our missionary men to share gospel with a Catholic and Muslim. Kevin met them a couple of weeks ago and they are asking alot of questions. Then tomorrow night we have a meeting about the Heritage International School, which has some issues that need to be resolved and I am on the Board. So tomorrow is a busy day....and 3 hour worship service. Sounds like to me we are in America. But God is moving and we are being blessed.

Had breakthrough yesterday with the tenses of verbs in Luganda...trust me I needed a breakthrough. Danny and I had met on Thursday by ourselves with teacher and he and Danny worked with me and then Danny worked with me some more and the lights began to come on. Does not mean we are speaking it but at least I can see how the words are formed.....WELL, EXCEPT FOR THE EXCEPTIONS.........