Annie Get Your RRFU!

We drove to Iowa to go to church today. Honesty, I don’t think I consciously knew Wisconsin and Iowa were neighbors. The kids were doing a few performances, so we went to support them. It was a big stone church, apparently the first church in Iowa, but very cool building- very much how I picture Kyle’s church in Scotland. It’s a UMC church, which is Sarah’s background, but nothing even close to mine. I giggled a bit and told them that I don’t know how to function in a church like that; I don’t know how to sing to an organ; and I really don’t know what to say to that many old people. It’s a little community church and everyone knows everyone, and there’s something to say about that. Still, I don’t think it’s my cup of tea. Again, going to churches not my own makes me long for it all the more- for worship with our band, for a message from Joe (which I have been downloading), knowing people all over, knowing the culture of it, having a produced and thought-through service… Worship is the one that always gets me, though. Soon. Soon I will be home with them.

So church was fine, and we ate there with the kids. Then back to the hotel and I finished some programming and did some packing and whatnot. Then off to work! At sound check, Florence started wearing all the random costumes (including the headdress feathers for Acholi) and skirts and whatnot, and dancing with the kids. It was great, because it got their energy up a little after a long day. Man, they were tired! As they should be.

But when I miced them for the show, they were bouncing off the walls! Oh my! The show went well. Kyle didn’t see much of it, as he was recording last-minute, so he was switching between “headphones and ears” to get it right. He stayed busy, and said now he feels for me the day I was programming throughout the show and didn’t see anything- it’s kinda weird.

Afterwards, I went down to see them and use my new Luganda phrase, which means, “You did a good job!” They think it’s funny that I’m speaking Luganda, but they like it, and they want me to learn a whole lot now. I hope to. Harriet is thrilled I’m trying and that I’m retaining as much as I am.

After the show, we hit up Culver’s for ice cream and now to bed.

I must let you all know, sound effects are taking over my life. We’re all so tired and can’t come up with words, especially me and Sarah, that sound effects are what’s left. So if any of you are expecting me to tell stories or anything, expect lots of sound effects and words in other languages.

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