Care Packages!!!!!!!!!

Krista opening care packagesThank you!  Today one of our good friends at the Lutheran Media Ministry Uganda office (the owner of the Post Office box where we receive mail and packages) went to the post office downtown with my driver's license and one package slip we had received.  I knew that we had several packages that should have arrived by now, so I asked her to also have the post office look up the tracking numbers for the packages I was expecting.  I gratefully sent her on her way to the post office with some money (Posta Uganda charges $1.50 to retrieve a package).  Sure enough, when she came back this afternoon, she was carefully balancing three, that's right, THREE packages on the back of the motorcycle-taxi she rode from downtown! THEN, a new friend I'd been in touch with here in Uganda stopped by with some of her visiting family and they handed us chocolate chips and chocolate from San Francisco and Chicago.  THEN, our two most recent short-term missionaries, who just arrived, delivered the items they were carrying for us - another care package as well as things they had brought for us.

Shauen with a New MagazineFOUR care packages plus hand-delivered goodies - in one day!  Oh, it was like Christmas in June!  We got one package from family in Milwaukee, one package from family in Washington State, one package from a good friend in North Carolina, and one package from the family of a young aspiring missionary in Illinois!  I think all parties had carefully read our "care package suggestions" from our Contact Us page - they were just filled up with goodies.  It just kept coming and coming - magazines like Popular Science, People, Us, and Time, spice packets for fajitas, tacos, and ranch dressing, Ziplock baggies in all sizes, chocolate, candy, chocolate chips, Jello, pudding, lasagna noodles, salt and vinegar chips, Stovetop Stuffing, bacon bits, corn and flour tortillas, macaroni and cheese - both complete boxes and just the cheese mix, granola bars, even seed packets for herbs we can't get here!  We felt so loved, so encouraged.  The notes we received in the care packages were positive and encouraging and just plain sweet, and one even included drawings from their children.  What a blessing our supporters are to us.  Thank you all so much.  May God continue to richly bless you as you have blessed us!  -ShauenStuff We Generally Can't Get in Uganda - Delivered Today by Loving Friends, Family, and Supporters