Transfers

Jebale!

Well, It was a quick transfer here in Mengo! I am staying with my comp! This will be his 6th transfer here making a total of 9 months here, but he is cool with it. We have some people progressing and getting ready for baptism. John Bosco is one. He is really awesome. He should be baptized this coming week hopefully. There is not a lot to report. Time is just flying! My comp hurt his foot pretty bad last Monday playing soccer, but we only missed Tuesday. The rest of the week was pretty good!

Well, not much else. I love you all. Keep being awesome!

Love, Elder Hawk


You know you're in Africa when you are the only white person in your district.

 Trash Mountain

  OJ with cake

 Nice weather!

Liahona Miracle

Jebale!

Well, it was a pretty good week! We had an amazing Zone Conference on Friday! It was way inspiring. Just what I needed to get myself more focused on the work! And then on Saturday, we had a really cool experience:

Saturday morning we had some appointments planned. As we called in the morning, we no longer had appointments. So we went to do some finding. We were walking and I felt like we should go try to see one of the appointments. He wasn't there. And then we knocked on a couple more doors. At one of the doors a man opened with nothing but a towel. We were a bit hesitant but he invited us in. When we got in, my companion found a May 2014 General Conference addition of the Liahona. He told us that he had saw a kid ripping it up a week or so ago and he asked him for it. He had read a little bit of it and liked it. Crazy, right?! but then, we started the lesson and then I saw it. On his wall he had the centerfold with all of the General Authorities on it!! It was such a cool moment. We explained more about all of it and set a baptism date! However, he didn't come to church this week, but I am sure he will come this coming week!

Well, that was basically all this week. I love you all! Keep doing what is right!

Love, Elder Hawk

You know you're in Africa when you eat pork with your hands.

 Helped the Bishop make a chicken coop

Selfie with the Elders

Just Mengo

Jebale!

Honestly, there is not much to report this week. We had a pretty good week! I love my district so much! We have a lot of fun! The work is moving slowly. We have one very serious guy named John Bosco. He has come to church twice and has a baptism date for the 5th of March. I am sure he will make it. I love the work. I love all of you!

Love, Elder Hawk


You know you're in Africa when you learn how to cook like an African

Didn't take that many pictures this week.

Me and Elder Barber Swagged out.. haha

Lumpy Neck

Jebale!

Well, it was a pretty good week. My left gland got super swollen on Friday and so I went to the Doctor on Saturday. It was a viral infection or something. But it is basically better now. But anyways, the work is going good. We have a ton of people to teach. We get into a lot of houses, but the problem is progressing and getting people to come to church. But I know that there are people out there who are ready for it.

Today we had a fun activity with the zone. We made some food and had a Book of Mormon Showdown between the two districts and we won by half a point! It was way fun! Other than that not much happened. Love you all! Keep on choosing the right!

Love, Elder Hawk


You know you're in Africa for long time when you forget what America is like...

Zone Service 

 Lumpy Face

 Me and My Comp 

Splash

Jebale!

Well, this was an extremely fast week. Wednesday, we had a Zone Development meeting which was nice! Then Thursday was the Missionary World Wide Broadcast! It was so great!! They started with basically a recap of last year's meeting and it had some very inspiring stuff. The question was, "How can missionary's know when they are fulfilling their purpose?" Elder Bednar said, "They can know when they quit worrying about it!" I loved that. Sometimes we get too worried about if we are doing what we are supposed to be doing. Instead when we stop worrying about ourselves and worry about others, we will automatically be doing those things!! It was great! Then Friday we had interviews with President. It was a great interview. He is very inspiring and is truly changing this mission.

Sunday, we had the 4 baptisms go through. The first guy's name is Gorden. He was very prepared. He has read through 3rd Nephi starting on like Tuesday!! He was quoting scripture and stuff when we did the Baptism Interview Questions Review with him! It was awesome! The other three are some kids that have been taught for a long time and their dad finally agreed to let them be baptized. They are also very powerful!! It was a great service!!

Well, I love you all. Keep doing great and keep a smile on your face!

Love, Elder Hawk


You know you're in Africa when there are traffic lights, but no one follows them...

 Cute little girl

  Baptisms

 The Powerful District!

Picture posted by Sister Collings on Facebook

At the Missionary Conference with Elder Majawa, 

one of his former companions and I'm not sure the name of the other Elder in the picture.

Culture Shock..

Jebale!

Well, I am not kidding when I say I got culture shock. My comp has been laughing at me since we have been together. hahaha But it has been good. Not a lot has happened. It was only a half week in the field. Leaving Busia was not easy. But I know it is for the best.

Sunday we had Stake Conference and it was a very historical day! The Uganda Kampala Stake split into two stakes making 3 stakes in Uganda now! That means that Mengo Branch will now be a ward! Very awesome! I didn't get to watch much because there were no more seats inside, but I heard it was pretty great! haha. Also having some good things happening with the work. The city is a little bit more difficult when it comes to the work. They have had some really powerful investigators here who have been coming to church, but they haven't had baptism dates, so I just decided we needed to go for it so we set it for next week and they have all accepted them! It was a miracle. There has only been like 7 baptisms here in the last year so it will be a pretty big deal to get this many in one week.

Well, I love you guys! I will try to give more info and stuff next week!

Love, Elder Hawk


You know you're in the city when there are buildings with more than 2 stories...

 Elder Le Cheminant found his Mario hat

 when we were in Njeru and I found this in Busia

 so we had to get a picture! 

 The view from our apartment (lots of hills in Kampala)

  Me and Elder Magumura at Stake Conference