Since I have reached Lugazi I have not yet had
any baptisms, but we should have our first baptism this upcoming Sunday. We've
had a lot of disappointment since I gotten here as far as investigators go:
people who were golden investigators becoming too busy for us to teach them
mostly. In Lugazi that seems to be one of the biggest challenges that I have
experienced. Most people who live in Lugazi work either in Kampala or at Jinja.
It's a long bus ride in either direction. Most people leave for work at around
6 or 7 in the morning and get back at around 9 or 10 pm. It's extremely
difficult to find the time to teach them that will help them to progress. But
in any case we are trying new things to see if we can find more people who have
more time on their hands.
The water that we use for the sacrament is
bottled water. Like the bread they have to buy the water for the sacrament. So
I have never had to worry about the water being impure.
I know that it's been 2014 for a while but it
feels so strange that it is that year. The year 2013 flew by so fast, I almost
feel like it didn't exist. That plus being in Africa and on a mission, I have
absolutely no clue as to what happened during that year in the outside world,
or what is going on currently. In a way that's good though because it helps me
to focus on my calling, rather than what is going on in the rest of the world.
This week has been pretty nice. It started off
a bit rough though. On Tuesday when I was walking I fell into one of the
gutters on the side of the road (not like our gutters back home, but it's like
a 1.5 to 3 feet drop, with rocks and trash at the bottom) and cut up my leg
pretty badly. I also punctured a large whole in the front of my shoe as well.
But I got it figured out. I took it to a cobbler today and they superglued a
piece of rubber to the front and then sowed it to my shoe with string. It looks
pretty ghetto but it gets the job done. The rest of the week went by pretty
smoothly, though.
Good to hear that the family is doing good.
Nice to hear from everyone.
-Love Elder Grilliot
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