Daughter of the King

So, as you know, I have done an absolutely terrible job of blogging this year and somehow the last post I did was 6 months ago! I honestly don't know how it is November already. This year has absolutely flown by. I try to post daily on instagram to keep everyone updated about what's going on, but let me hit a few key things from the last couple of months for you here. And then if you bear with me through that, I have a bit of an update about what's next for me. May In May, I got to go out to Nakabango a couple of times with Heather to see the progress of the piggery that HHFA was building. Since then, she's doubled the piggery and has many more pigs (including adorable little piglets that I can't wait to go out and meet). This is also the month that I hopped over our wall on our compound (this is no longer doable because we had it rebuilt) to rescue two puppies that children had tortured all day and left tied up so tight that I could hardly get the scissors

It’s been a long time since I last wrote. I’ve thought about writing a lot of times, but something always stopped me. I think I felt that I couldn’t write about a lot of things that were going on. My parents got divorced in February. This is something that rocked my world and flipped it upside down. I’m 25 years old but I think it’s even worse now than it would have been when I was younger. How could two people who love each other, who raised me together happily my entire life, suddenly no longer want to be together? I have always wanted to get married. I believe that somewhere, God is preparing a man who will be my husband and I will be his wife. But then when I look at my parents, it makes me question if it is worth it. And I hate that. I know marriage isn’t easy. I’ve witnessed enough of them fall apart to know. And statistics show us that about a third of every marriage in the United States ends in divorce. The CDC shows that in 2015, over 2.2 million people got marrie

The last few weeks have flown by. My mom came to visit mid-December where she got to see HEAL before we closed for Christmas break. We went on safari that was awesome for a few days before flying home together. The pictures below in order from left to right: 1. Mom and I sitting on top of the safari vehicle while seeing a lion; 2. Mom and I pretty dang close to 6 rhinos resting in the shade; 3. Mom and I with our guide after chimpanzee trekking, during which we got to see about 10 chimps up close and I got hit in the nose by a huge branch that fell while one of the older chimps riled up the younger ones; 4. Mom and I on the ferry crossing the Nile River; 5. Taken while Mom was in Jinja with Ian after going on a Sole Hope clinic And then I had exactly two weeks in the US of A of before I flew back here (a journey that took me 66 hours due to one of my flights being canceled after sitting on the plane for 6 hours). While home, I got to spend time with my family and was ab