Week 85- Iganga, Uganda with Elder Bukasa

As you can see there were a lot of baptisms this week. The really tall guy is Elder Maw, He is super awesome and is one of the Elders in our district. And the other guy on the bike with me and Bukasa is our guard, Raymond. He often proselytizes with us and sometimes translates for us. We rented bikes one day this week to get out to sister Petro’s home. It is about a 20 mile trip. We had some great opportunities to serve this week. It was All-Africa Helping Hands day on August 17th. For our project we cleaned a school up. We picked up piles of old bricks and garbage. We also prepared a sisters field for planting by turning the soil and weeding the ground. We pulled all her cow weeds- they are like thistles. Don’t freak out when I tell you this, I had to break up a fight this week. I had to stop a guy from beating his girlfriend. I didn’t want to get involved but I couldn’t stand there and watch him hit this lady. So I grabbed him from behind and held him down until he was calm. Probably the craziest thing I’ve ever been involved in.

Week 84- Iganga, Uganda with Elder Bukasa

Sometimes Missionary life seems the same day after day. We get up pray, exercise, pray, study, pray, eat, pray, walk, teach, pray, eat, pray, teach, walk, pray, eat, walk, pray, find, teach, walk, pray, sleep, repeat. There are a few miracles and a lot of great people squeezed in there. The miracle this week was I gave a talk in church on repentance and was able to sign the whole thing! I am really enjoying signing and teaching. We have 6 deaf people that we are currently teaching.
Shalom, Joana and Patricia, the sisters we baptized 2 weeks ago were confirmed on Sunday. That is them in the pictures above. We are averaging about 20 miles of walking each day. Our guards Fred and Raymond love to proselyte with us. They are both members and hope to be missionaries themselves soon. We have some really solid people we are working with on progressing towards baptism. All are attending church regularly! I love working with  Sister Petra right now. She walks an hour and a half to get to church. There is such sacrifice when it comes to many of the saints here in Africa.  Count your blessings and live with gratitude!