Uganda be kidding me!

For the month of July I was in the country Uganda sharing Jesus with people! Let me tell you how i got there first....

So this summer I had the option of 1. getting an internship for a company in chemical engineering and making a lot of money or 2. Going on a missions trip and trusting Jesus that was going to take care of the money and my future. Obviously #2 was what happened. It was a hard giving up the opportunity to work this summer, but I knew Jesus had huge plans for me in Uganda, so I said yes to him. BEST DECISION OF MY LIFE!

What the Lord did in Uganda was out of control. I feel the team and I were living out the gospel every single day. The stories of the bible were coming to life and Jesus was using us for it! Since i have been back in America, i have told many people the stories of what happened in Uganda, and it takes about 2 hours to get through all the testimonies of what Jesus did! I am going to share a couple here, but if you would like to know more, please contact me and we can sit down and i can go through absolutely everything Jesus did and what he has taught me!

So me and my friend Aaron were walking around in the town of Gulu and I saw a man who was limping really badly. So i went over and talked to him and he began to tell me his story. His name was Simon and he said that he lived in a village about 30 miles away from town and came by bus to town for 2 days to Gulu to get medicine for this infection and muscle problem he had in his leg that had been there for 5 months. (the medicine and hospitals in Uganda aren't so great) . He said that he was Catholic and believed in Jesus, but wasn't sure about Jesus healing him.  So being led by the Spirit, me and Aaron felt like Jesus wanted to heal him and explained to him that Jesus has the power to heal him right now if we could pray for him. He said it was okay to do so, so me and Aaron prayed once. nothing happened. We prayed again. he had a little improvement. Then the Lord told me to pray a third time. Nothing happened. Me and Aaron knew Jesus wanted to heal him but were confused why it wasn't happening. So i got Simon's phone number and told him to call me if he had more questions about Jesus. 2 days later i get a call....and Simeon tell me that his leg was completely fine and that he wanted to meet up (i was jumping around and so excited when i got this call)! So i meet him a couple hours later at Peche stadium. I am waiting there looking around, and i see a him walk up to me just like any normal person would. he was completely healed and in shock! He told me he tried absolutely everything for his leg but nothing worked and i told him, "well you did try Jesus just yet haha." So he accept Jesus into his heart, i gave him a bible and he was going to tell everyone in his village about his healing! I am excited to get to heaven, see him, and see the impact he had on his village because Jesus changed his life with his healing and love!

main things i learned from this story.

1. Jesus loves to work in secret. We prayed for him in the middle of the city where there were people all of the place that if he was healed, would have caused a scene. Jesus specifically spoke to me and said that his nature isn't that way. When Jesus drew big crowds he would leave them and go to new towns where he could be more personal with people. Because that is who he is! He is sooo personal to all of us. He healed Simon in the secret to show how much he loved him. Jesus wants to be our dad, our best friend, our everything. He wants us to have this intimate relationship where we are not just a crippled man in a crowd, but a man who is walking with him side by side. This revelation transformed the trip for me. I focused more on going to people's houses and being more secret and personal with people, and we saw even more and more miracles and people come to know Jesus because of it!

2. Our prayers work! we prayed 3 times. We held close to the promises he had and believed he would still be healed, and he was! Jesus's timing is so much better than ours. He listens to our prayers and responds! its that simple! we make it way to complicated and thing there is a formula, but if you ask Jesus with a pure heart according to his will, his answer is yes and amen! (2Corinthians 1:20) and healing is in his will!

This is only one story out of about 20 i can tell about how Jesus just loves us so much! I can't express how incredible it is to read the bible, believe the bible, and then do what the bible says to do. Jesus called his disciples to heal the sick, raise the dead, etc. (Mathew 10:8)...and us, being disciples of Christ have been called to do that! It's so simple. Living a sold out life for Jesus leads us to see his glory and he does absolutely ridiculous things through us! The best part is, all that he does is out of his love! If you haven't experienced Jesus's love, ask him for it! and he will show up! it's who he is!

I Defs have more to say about Africa, if anyone wants to know more fill free to contact me like i said and I'd be soo glad to share! love you all! Here are some pics!

lady i met named mama grace! incredible story!

Our team! i love them so much

Some of my friends for Antioch Gulu!