From the beginning of this week until now
everything has been going really well. Gulu really is a great place to serve.
It is a beautiful place, with many humble people. The branch here is doing
really well. For Easter Sunday we had a lot of investigators and Less-active
members come to church. Sacrament attendance is usually steady around 100 to
110, but this last Sunday the Sacrament attendance was 140! It was really cool.
A very spiritual sacrament meeting. I really like the branch president here. He
is a very smart guy and he's a returned missionary, so he knows generally how
the church is supposed to be run. Most returned missionaries know how the
church is supposed to run, going on a mission is really what trains most of the
church leaders in this side of the world.
We had a really amazing experience this last
week. We were tracking in part of our area on Thursday, when we ran into this
nice old lady and her two children. We didn't have enough time to teach them,
so we just set a return appointment with them for Saturday. That Saturday, our
schedule was really busy. We were to do Zone conference, the A.P.'s and the
mission president were coming up to Gulu, and our whole day after zone
conference zone confrence was super packed with appointments. Our original plan
was to meet this lady and her family at around 5 o clock, but because of the
time zone conference ended we didn't know if we time. we had to move some of
our appointments around but we were unable to tell if we were going to be able
to see here on that day. We gave her a call and she assured us that she would
be around all day and if we found time to visit she would be there. That day
our appointments were super packed but somehow we managed just in time to
finish all of our plans by 8 o clock, so we headed off to see that woman and
her family. It was a really powerful lesson about the restoration of the gospel
of Jesus Christ. The spirit was really strong as my companion and I testified
about the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith and of the Book of Mormon.
At the end of the lesson, she paused us, and told us two things. The first is
that her Uncle is also a member of the church, and when she gave me his name I
recognized him as the patriarch of the Kampala Stake. The second thing is that,
that very morning she had prayed to God that if we (My companion and I) really
have a message from Him, that we come today, and that if our message is not
from him, that we don't come today. We honestly (from the schedule that we had
that day) should not have had time to visit her, I don't know how it happened
but somehow we managed to get time to see her that day. It was a miracle. We
gave her a baptismal date, she came to church the next day and is now
progressing very well. The Lord truly blessed us.
Everything here is doing great. The lord is
blessing us, and I can see it in my life. Love you all, and wish you a great
week.
-Elder Grilliot
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