Flat Tire = Church Service

Sunday we left Gulu. Our ETD was 12 noon… we of course left at 2:30 (see previous post on timeliness) About an hour and a half into a 4 hour trip we blew a tire. We had the blowout right in a very small village that was about 1/2 thatched huts and 1/2 make shift brick storefronts. The locals were very friendly and helped us out right away. Ugandans are very friendly and we never really felt this to be an issue to be stranded. Our van driver proceeded to get the spare out from under the car. One issue was that the spare was leaking air. So the locals helped us out. They ended up running the tire up the road about 5 miles on a motorbike to get a repair. Was about an hour pit stop but we got on our way. During the tire fixing business we noticed about 100 yards from where we stopped on the road was this big beautiful tree. Under it there was drumming dancing and preaching. This was a Sunday church service in the village. A few of us ventured over for some brief dancing and some gospel while our other team mates entertained some locals with their guitar and stayed in the shade by the van. The man preaching was speaking Acholi but they had someone translate some into English for us white folk. If I didn’t mention it already we are white people or Mizungus which we get called all the time by little kids. Anyway they played their music and spread the word, We danced a bit with them, had some fun and then got back on the road. One more experience for the book.