What a wonderful blessing it is for me to be able to serve the Lord for two years here in Africa

Africa is great! the people are wonderful and the ward has just been so good to us. I know that the prayer works I know the Lord will answer our prayers he has answered mine and will continue to answer them. Its so wonderful to have this line of communication I feel so blessed. I know he is just a prayer away and that he really wants to hear from us and help us. I am so grateful for our Savior Jesus and that he Atoned for our sins and I know it is only through him that we can live again. I think it is more than wonderful that Heavenly Father would send his son to die for us. That really shows how much he actually loves us!
        I know it was just a wee bit ago that we were talking about me being here in Africa and now I'm actually here! What a wonderful blessing it is for me to be able to serve the Lord for two years here in Africa. It is really pretty but the people kinda just throw the trash on the ground and the place could be so so so much  more pretty.
     It sounds like everyone is having a good summer and having fun I am really glad to hear that. Letters are weird even if they come I don't get the letters tell I pick them up in Kololo or until the Zone leaders drop them off so it takes awhile no matter what. Just to let everyone know we do walk everywhere but we can take these taxis. We do mostly walking though and its great. On Sundays we don't use the taxis because we don't want to make people work ha. Every Sunday around 6 we go to the Balyjusa family and it takes about an hour and fifteen minuets to get there on foot.
         So this week has been great! We are still trying to build a foundation on people to teach and find people that really want the gospel in there lives. Our phone just barely started to work this week so now we can use it and hopefully get more people to teach and to bring to church. So this week we had Zone leader Training and I had the privilege to give a lesson on Inviting and following up using the spirit and it was a really good training maybe not by me but by the other people giving talks they were so great and spiritual and President Jackson is amazing! He is such a powerful President and he makes you want to work harder.  I also got to see some of my MTC buddies which was really nice it was really fun to see a few of them.
    Our ward is so wonderful we have this guy called Habib I think I told you about him well anyways he is always helping us and giving us referrals and showing us around he even comes over and cooks for us sometime. He is so great and He really has helped us out so much. We also have this lady called Momma Victoria and she makes amazing food for us every friday but she cant this friday so she is cooking for us today. She also said she can wash our clothes which is super nice of her. She is always helping missionaries out which is super nice and will help us out a ton!
     This Sunday was a great one we had four baptisms and the other missionaries had two. The four that were baptized were Ben, Allice, Harriot, and Francis for us I didn't get the names for the other missionaries baptisms.There was also I think ten investigators at church. The lord really does bless you for working hard and I feel that we are working hard. I come home just dead tired all of the time. The mission is great and I love it so much I know there is nothing better I could be doing. Thank you all for all your love and support I will keep all of you in my prayers. Thanks you so much for your prayers I know they are helping me.
           Love Elder Hildreth