My heart has already been stolen. It happened the first day we arrived at our ministry location here in Tororo, Uganda. His name is Onibu and he is five years old. He was the very first child I talked to here. We were sitting in Deliverance Church (the church we are partnering here with in Tororo), and we were playing a silly game which involved me needing to hug a stranger. What better stranger to hug than an adorable little Ugandan child? And so I found Onibu. He doesn’t speak much English but he became attached to me very quickly, soon not wanting to leave my side or talk to anybody else. He had to go home and I wondered if I would ever get to see him again.
We have been doing door-to-door evangelism everyday here in Tororo, Uganda. The Lord has been moving in powerful ways; over one hundred people have accepted Christ after talking with someone from our team this week!! Yesterday, Thursday, was another day of evangelism. I was paired with two ladies from Deliverance Church who are absolutely incredible, Esther and Regina. We were ministering in the neighborhoods behind the church and there were tons of kids following us (not unusual!) shouting, “Mzungu! Mzungu!” (mzungu means white person, this is what we are called everywhere we go). I turned around to wave and smile at the kids and I saw Onibu. My heart was so happy! Last night after evangelism we got to play at the church with the neighborhood kids, so I got to play with Onibu as well as some of the other kids whom I absolutely adore. When it was time to go, Onibu started saying something to me, but I couldn’t understand because it was not in English. A twelve-year-old girl named Esther who had talked to me a lot translated for me. She told me that Onibu said he did not want me to leave, that he wanted to come with me. As we drove away he did not take his eyes off of me. I pray I will be able to see him again before we leave Tororo; this little boy has stolen my heart.
