Merry Christmas! I'm sitting here writing this email in my brother and sister-in-law's (Nate and Rhoda's) house in Jinja, Uganda. My two nephews are running around with diapers and nothing else. The sun is beating through the window and there's sweat trickling down the back of my leg.
Hardly seems like Christmas, but the tree is up and there are presents under the tree. Most importantly, our Savior was born for those in tropics just as much as he was for everybody else! This is good news no matter what the weather is.
As it turns out, the last week of classes at Waama were canceled so that the students could plant corn in the school's fields. This means that finals had to be postponed until the first week of school in the second term. The timing of this unexpected break was very nice for Jesse and I as we were able to use it to gather the proper documentation for the renewal of our residency permits. We have still not received any information on them and would continue your prayers for them. It appears that if we do not receive them before we need to return to Tanzania, we will be able to get back into the country with a tourist visa. We will still need the residency permits, but they are not required before entering the country.
Ben
