Hello all dear friends out there!
 
Thank you, so much for all your letters. We are so happy to receive notes from you. 
Thanks for keeping us updated on what’s going on out there in the big world. 
So of you have wondered about the elections we’ve just had. Well we didn’t see or hear about any problems, 
everything around here was very calm and quiet. The old president was reelected, 
the good thing for us is that he has been very favorable towards Jehovah's Witnesses. 
So we just keep on with the work, and there is so much need here. 
 
1. of March we started our language course here at Bethel, 
so we came down from our missionary home in Mbale the last days in Feb.
The new Bethel here in Kampala lies in beautiful surroundings. It used to be a tee plantation some years ago, 
it’s just outside the city, called Lubowa so it’s quiet out here. At the old Bethel it was very noisy, 
with a disco and a Mosque just across the street. So we really feel the difference.
We’re assigned to a Luganda congregation, some 6,7 km from Bethel. So the territory is rather far away, 
so it’s good I’ve thrown my crutches away, anyway they told us: just start wherever you feel like, 
there isn’t any congregations who reach out here anyway.
So last Wednesday we started in some small shops around, and in every place they accept to study, 
so we’re already conducting studies in Luganda, well they read Luganda, we ask, they answer, 
and hopefully the answer is right, because I don’t have a clue what they answer. 
Since they hear us use the presentation we memorized, they think we understand everything, 
so it’s very funny when they start of on a long story and I don’t have a clue. 
And it’s quit funny that they don’t ask where we have our meetings, but “where do we pray”. Then we just replay “we meet”.
Today Sandri came to a study and she was still taking lunch, 
so she says to Sandri: go preach them in the meanwhile, pointing to a big crowd outside her shop. 
Sandri had avoided the group since they where so many, but now she had no choice. 
So she went over and started with Gods name, and ended up studying lesson 2 in Require with 7 people, 
and one lady said she really wanted to go to the meetings, so Sandri made arrangements for picking her up on Sunday. 
We have to be very careful with the time. Because in Luganda they count the time like the Israelites, 
starting the day at 6 o’clock in the morning, so 3 o’clock means 9 o’clock am our time. 
It feels very strange, but hopefully we’ll get used to it.
 
Today in class we where going through the books of the Greek scriptures and the teacher burst out in laughter 
when Sandri said that “Timothy got wet” instead of saying “first Tim.” 
Or the other day talking to a brother at the branch committee, Sandri says: “I want to fornicate”(okwenda), 
when she meant to say “I want to go”(okugenda). Yes, learning another language can be dangerous. Here’s couple more ex.
Okuba means - to be,    but Okubba means - to steal.
They told that ones some captured  a missionary and after a while the commander said: 
let him go (Okuta) but the soldier understood okutta, which means kill him.
We also have to be careful when talking about the congregation ekibiina, because ekibina means bottom (the one your sitting on).
So there should be many opportunities for the brothers to have a good laugh.
Last Sunday one of the brothers on the branch committee invited us to come along on a kingdom Hall dedication. 
We went to a small town about 2 hours drive from Kampala. 
6 temporary special pioneers were sent there in June 2003, at that time there was no publishers in the area. 
Today there is a striving congregation there with 36 publishers, 
and 4 of those have already taken up the pioneer service. And they have a beautiful Kingdom Hall with the capacity of 120. 
They were very proud, because they had electricity, 
water and a sound system witch is not very common for Kingdom Halls in rural areas. 
At the dedication there was an attendance of 96, and the only visitors was the three of us from Bethel. 
We saw the brothers making arrangements to start studying with several interested who had come to the Kingdom Hall for the first time. 
So it seems like the growth just will keep on. 
After the meeting there was Matoke (cooking bananas that are still green cooked for hours on open fire) for everybody, 
so the sisters had been cooking since early morning, 
Matoke really is the big thing in Uganda, so when they make they make a lot. 
I’m sure they easily could have feed 300 people. Well I didn’t eat very much, 
it’s not bad it’s just that I don’t find it very tasteful.
 
The same weekend another Kingdom Hall was dedicated, more or less the same story of progress, 
one special Pioneer who had been there for 2 years already had lead 12 persons in to the truth
 
 
Love and hugs from Carl Christian and Sandri