Our Thanksgiving day this year was a lot of fun. We only had that one day to get all of the food ready. We invited all eight of our missionaries to dinner plus the boy scout from Utah, his father, and the two family friends who came with him. Two of the missionaries decided to come and do a service project that day and help us get dinner ready. We would have never made it without them. We had many other things to do that day.
We tried to stay as traditional as we could. Our menu was, roasted chicken, mashed irish potatoes and gravy, scalloped corn, sweet potatoes, cabbage salad with pineapple, apples and bananas, rolls, pumpkin pie and banana cream tarts. No cranberry sauce could be found. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. A smudge on the camera lens made the pictures not so good.
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| My keyboard students came to visit. Patricia, Prishilla, Rachael, and Mercy. |
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| They came from school, wearing their school uniforms. |
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| Notice the African fabric that we used for the tablecloth. |
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| The three who dressed traditional Ugandan. |
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| Brough and Morgan |
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| Briggs, Piyolo and Matariano |
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| Vincent, our one real Ugandan |
Hello, my name is Blair Hess and I stumbled on your blog while I was looking for contact information for the saints in Gulu, Uganda. Are you still serving there? I was stationed in Iraq several years ago and, while there we met a number of outstanding Ugandan men who began to learn about the gospel and to attend our church services. One of them was from Gulu and I have not heard from him in some time so I was hoping to be reunited with him. His name is Opiyo Patrick, he had a wife and a baby son (at the time). If you could be any help in locating him, I would love to hear from him and see how his family is doing. I love every person who I met from there and I am envious of your mission. Thank you for serving such awesome people!
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Blair Hess
blair.c.hess@gmail.com
Thanks for sharing this with us. This was the first time wever we did not have some of our family for Thanksgiving; we did invite the Manns and Shelly's mom who got along with my mom very well. Can't wiat to be at your home coming. I mis you my eternal friends. Take care We love you......Will you be home for Christmas? You had Christmas there last year.Love Patti & Don
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