I hope the week was just swell for you wherever you were. For me it is still great. Masaka is still the best. The weather is still the best. The people are still the best. Everything is still the best.I am just getting my last work in before I leave the area. I am saying goodbye to a lot of people and preparing the area because my companion and I are pretty sure we are both leaving Masaka.
I don't have much to talk about this week. The transfer is coming to a close. At the beginning of the transfer we came to the area with 0 investigators. Right now we have 3 people on track for baptism next Sunday and 3 others in the future. Masaka is so prepared. I will tell the story of one man that is special to me. Julius is a man I have mentioned before. He was sort of a street boy growing up. Many kids run away from their family at a young age and live on the street to avoid school, being beat, working etc. So Julius ran away at a younger age. He is pretty rough. All his clothes are ripped and old and smelly. He comes to church is old ripped pants and usually no shoes. He is extremely cross eyed and cant really read or see because of it. His english is small but he tries. We have been teaching him for a few weeks. This week we visit him to share one last lesson before prepping baptisms. I was also on an exchange with Elder Haines. We began teaching him about Tithing. He stopped us pretty early in the lesson and in broken English just said, "Brothers, I know what tithing is. I have been paying." He looked at us with a smile after and we just looked at him with a huge smile too! It was so awesome. He told us he actually didn't know where tithing went but he knew it needed to be paid. I can't imagine his contribution is much, but 10% is 10% to everyone and thats why we are commanded no more and no less. Julius is a powerful man. The church and especially tithing has blessed his life!
This week we got to go pretty far into the village to two places to visit some really dedicated members. The first was Kalisizo which is 26km from Masaka and the second is Kyotera (pronounced Chyotera). There we got to see a few members and had a great time. It is always cool to see parts of Uganda that no missionaries have every been. I could even say no white people have really ever been....
Well, thats it for the week. Stay tuned next week to find out where I am going for transfers... Hint hint I am leaving Uganda. Have a good week everyone!
Love,
Elder McLain
This is Hanifah. She was a muslim who got converted
Elder Kubheka and I
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