I feel like my life has been in super fast motion since I have been back from Uganda. Almost two weeks ago I was in Jinja waiting for Adam to get back from buying coffee so that I could tell him about the awesome day I had just had. But Adam didn't come back.
It was about 7:30 or 8:00pm and Ben, Kym, Eli, the Bogles, and I were visiting at the Langfords house when we got the call. Adam and Moses, a Ugandan friend had been in an accident. But that is about all we knew. I had no idea that the next few hours I would spend driving to Kapchurua to find Adam and Moses, only to find that both had died. It felt like a bad dream, or like something you would see in the movies, but it definiately did not feel like reality. I couldn't believe that either of them were dead, I had just spent the last 3 weeks with Adam and had gotten to know Moses.
Coming back to the states was fast and unexpected. I couldn't wait to see friends and family but was sad to have to come back so soon. I arrived in Missoula to a great group of friends and spent the next day getting ready to go to OKC for the funeral. It seemed like from the moment I set foot in the US I felt the love of so many of you. I had calls from many friends, old and new. I had e-mails from many caring people from the states and from Uganda. Adam touched so many lives and it was easy to see.
Adam and I had many great talks while I was staying with him in Jinja. I was so proud of him. I got to see a side of him that was different then usual. Adam is a very funny person, and any time I knew that he was around I also knew that it would be fun. But in Jinja I saw an extremely caring side of Adam. Adam didn't have too but he was always watching out for me. He knew that I could take care of myself over there but still was always looking out for me. I have great memories of Adam in Uganda. One of my favorite is being stuck in a hotel in Kenya(because of car problems). The Bogles, Adam and I were reading out of the 'hotel Bible'. In the front it had John 3:16 in 15 different languages. We all read a different language and laughed so hard that night. That was my cousin, always laughing in the midst of a hard situation.
The funeral was held on this past Wednesday. I had never been to anything like it. There were so many people there who knew Adam in some way. It was great to be with my family and with the Jinja team.
I am in Flordia now and will go back to Missoula at the end of this week. Thank you for the prayers and support you have shown me and my family in the last couple of weeks.

Right now Mo is a girly,
girl and thats totally
ok with me! 

Eli sings Twinkle, Twinkle
to little Mo 

Lana, Eli, cow, and pig. 

Eli with a Edible Fruit
Bouquet from a friend of
the family 

Just some of the family
that came for the funeral.
some had already left. 

Leta, Lana, and Eli.
We are the cutest ones
in the family 

Pallbearers at the
gravesite. 

Me and my cute
niece, Morgandy Skye 

Jonny helping dig
Adam's grave. 

Back home in Missoula
for one day. We have a
new member to the
Partain house. 

Here we go down,
Bujagali falls 

Eli eating blue chalk...
Yum! 

Ben and I came upon this
road block, don't worry
we made it through! 

Can you find me? I
blend in pretty well. 

Ben and I visiting a
village. 

Adam on the train.
I'm so glad I have this
one! 

The start of our 17 hour
train ride from Mombassa
to Nairobi 

Women in Mombassa,
Kenya. 

I call this one
Where's Waldo? 

Zebra's on the side of
the road in Kenya. 

The Source of the Nile 

Elijah eating yogurt,Uganda Style 

Uncomfortable

Many of you recieve a letter from me asking for support to come to Africa. I mention that it was uncomfortable to ask you for your financial support. I said that I wanted to come to a place that would get me out of the comfortable ways of life in America. It hasn't been hard to find that here in Uganda. I'm far from that comfortable life. Everything here is different. Alot of it doesn't make sense to me. Sometimes even good things that happen don't make sense. I'm thankful for the confusion in the midst of good and bad situations. Its made me think about life here and in America. I hope that I don't go back to the comforts of life in America. I hope to come back and find situations there that aren't normal. But most important giving the glory and praise to God when I'm in both.

Crash and Burn

The adventure hasn't stopped!
Yesterday I was riding a piki piki(motorcylce taxi). I was almost home and the driver was going too fast around a turn. I started to fall but caught my leg on the exhaust pipe. Ouch! I will have a great African scar to show you all when I return. I walked the rest of the way home and walked today too. I'm taking a break from the piki piki's for a while!

Learning Lasoga

One of my favorite parts about being here in Africa is language lessons with Roy. Roy is a very smart Ugandan man. He teaches some of the missionaries language lessons. I have learned some of the language but I love hearing about the culture even more.
It will be hard to describe how different it is here in Uganda. I'm not sure if I even want to come back and tell everyone how different it is. Mainly cause I don't know how to yet. Things here are so hard to figure out. Yet the people here are great and have taught me so much already.
Talking to Roy has made me learn the culture here and understand the culture in America as well.

Something New...

Since I have been here in Africa I have seen or done something new just about everyday.
Here is a list of new things that I have experienced.
1. Riding a boda boda(bike taxi)
2. Seeing a giraffe through a train window
3. Riding a camel
4. Seeing a monkey in someone's front yard
5. Driving on the left side of the road, and riding on the left side of the car
6. Driving through pot holes as big as a car
7. Seeing poverty that I can't begin to explain

I'll stop here but I'm sure there will be more before I head back to the states.