This is the day the Lord has made and His surprises

Last night Elizabeth, the missionary, mentioned to me not to worry if I heard people coming in late last night, because we were expecting two more to arrive in the room next to mine. This morning I met them and we were blessed. It is a father and his grown son who were here in the 1960s as a missionary family that served in this very place. It has been their dream to return and see how it has changed, so they are on a father-son trip here now for a few days. Immediately after greeting them, the emotions came. They had tears in their eyes, as they tried to express what was beyond words could describe about how meaningful this place is to them. The son said sometimes you have those meaningful moments in your life you will never forget that may be as short as 5 minutes or as long as several years. He said Nalerigu is one of those moments for them. They lived here when there was no electricity and no lights in the village. They rode in amazed to see a partially paved road in one section of the trip and some lights. God changed them for life here. The father was a veterinarian and a farmer. He said when man landed on the moon, he was introducing some type of farming equipment to the people here in Africa. You can see the contrast. He said he preached with his hands. We had our morning devotional in Philippians and were planning to discuss it, but God had other plans to bless us with these men who showed us a powerful testimony. We did read Phil. chapter 2, but were able to apply it to them. We just had lunch with them, and I'm that much more blessed. You never know who's coming through. In fact, just today in the hospital as we were doing procedures, a missionary couple serving in Bogatonga came by, not to use the computer as missionaries usually do from outlying villages. Instead, they needed their 13 month old daughter to be checked out by a pediatrician. Can you believe Dr. Dunn pointed them my way. I had the pleasure and honor of working with spiritual gifts as the body of Christ to literally build up the church and help them out, so they can further the gospel. We squared away her immunizations, too. I could tell the mom was so relieved, since she knows her child is not getting the care of pediatricians in the U.S. It was a blessing. Well, I'm heading back to the hospital for more procedures and surgeries.