News from Elder Parker Dustin Hawk: Baptism and Eating live bugs

Habari!

Things are great here in Uganda. It was a great week. Zaina was able to be baptized! It was such an awesome service! I am so happy for her. She was super prepared! We have many other investigators that are progressing and hopefully be baptized in the next few weeks. The work is sweet in Busia.

I also had a pretty cool experience this week. It was actually a combo of things but it lead to one point. We were teaching Zaina about service and I said, "our motive should always be love." and it made me really think about it. Right now the branch needs a lot of help because it is still new. It can be very frustrating at times when you tell someone what they need to do and they still dont do it. But I said that and my whole attitude changed. As we show people love for them and correct them with kindness they are more likely to do what they need to. Our motive for all that we do should be love, just like Christ. Everything he did was out of the love of our Father in Heaven and for us. If we can focus on love we will become more Christ like. And that is the goal of life.

Well, that is all I have this week. I was also able to eat a live bug called a white ant. I love you all! Keep up the good work.

Love, Elder Hawk

You know you're in Africa when you eat live bugs.