News from Elder Parker Dustin Hawk: Transfer week!

Habari!

Well, transfer news came today. My companion is the only one leaving the district! Sad, but my new companion is Elder Hart from Logan, Utah. Should be a lot of fun! I am very excited for the coming transfer and really surprised how fast the last one went. Some other crazy news is that mission president just made a lot of big changes this transfer! The missionaries in Lira and Mbale are being pulled out. They are going to focus on the center and open up a bunch of areas in Kampala. We were part of the Mbale zone and they thought about pulling us out as well, but because we have been doing so well this last transfer they decided to keep us here!! We saved Busia! Pretty cool. But now we are part of the Iganga Zone.

Some great stuff happened this week. First, I forgot to talk about it last week, but George is doing awesome! He has been coming to church. Only for sacrament, but he said he is going to try to come to the full thing. The miracle though was last Sunday when we taught him the Word of Wisdom! He smokes and drinks coffee. So we were a little nervous to teach it, but we came in and we were bold and it was a super powerful lesson. He accepted and has stopped coffee and is doing a lot better about smoking! So awesome!

Something else that happened this week was we were carrying water for one of the members and we helped their next door neighbor and invited her to listen to our message and she accepted. The next day we taught her and her two daughters! They tried to come to church, but they got lost on the way there. We saw them again and gave them a baptismal date on the 9th of October! Very exciting.

It was also my companions birthday this week, so we had a little celebration at Baba Wafula's house. It was very nice. Also, Saturday we had a branch activity and while we were at the church something happened. We were standing outside talking and the church started to shake! At first I just thought it was the wind or a big truck, but then I kept thinking and I yelled, "EARTHQUAKE!" My first earthquake ever. Pretty cool.

Sorry, this is such a huge email. I just had a lot to say. Haha. Most of you probably only look at the pictures anyways.. haha. Love you all!

Love, Elder Hawk

You know you're in Africa when all the girls have yarn for hair...