Hey everyone! 9-12-11

Hey everyone! 9-12-11

I am doing so wonderful today! We didn't have the best week last week, but our motto this transfer is do better and no excuses so we will do better and not make excuses for what we do wrong and just try to improve ourselves and continue to grow from our mistakes and become better! We haven’t been able to see Steven in awhile and he hasn’t come to church for at least three weeks which is sad, but I still know he will turn around and want to come back to Christ. I talked with President about him and he said to get the family to help so he can have a firm foundation, We haven’t seen Steven in so long and we try to see him everyday but he is always gone. I know though that he will come back. We didn’t have too many investigators at sacrament we had one guy Damiono and a girl named Concy. Damiono has come before but he just comes every once in awhil. We haven’t really got the chance to teach him because he has no contact number so it is kind of hard. He has a friend that is a member so I talked with him and asked and he knows where he lives so we can talk with him. Also Concy is a referral from a returned missionary girl Sara. Concy seems interested in the gospel which is wonderful. This week we talked with Joesph I think I told you about him and he has stopped progressing and he is scared to leave his church to come to ours. He is also scared to read and pray about the Book of Mormon to find out if it is true. We are planning to take it away and give it to someone who will progress and will actually read and study the Book of Mormon and that will actually want to find out if its true. Our hope also by doing this is that Joesph will want to come back and that he will realize for himself he needs the true church. We are still trying to continue to strengthen our recent converts and also try to talk and bring back the less actives. Something interesting that happened this week is we had this guy come to change our water spout because it was broken and he put in a new spout and now the water filter doesn’t fit so we have to boil our water they are going to try to bring something else so that the filter can fit on it. Another funny thing that’s been happening is we have a pet mouse not on purpose but he just kinda came in one day and he is super quick so we cant kill him and he is just in our apartment and he enjoys some of our food so now we need to be careful with our food ha. This mouse is like superman he can jump super high open cupboards and is super fast so that’s an experience in itself ha. Don’t worry we have protected our food now and he cant do anything. Also the weather has been good not too rainy and its not too hot so that makes it nice. I got the chance to work with a ward missionary named Tom and he is super cool he is a convert and he told me his testimony of the gospel and how it changed his life and how he used to fight all the time and people called him Tyson because he loved to fight and now that he is in the gospel it changed his life and he is trying to help bring others unto Christ which is super cool he is a great guy. It wasn’t the missionaries who found him he decided himself he needed to change so he went to the church one Sunday and wanted to become better what a stud! Habibu is still amazing and he has been trying to put in his mission papers like ten times and the stake president keeps telling him he needs to do more and then the last time he went the Stake President told him he needs to fill out new papers that just came up so that’s been a trial for him yet he still works with the missionaries and he is so great and I am truly thankful that Habibu has been here to help us. This Entebbe ward is so wonderful and I am growing way more appreciation for those in this ward and how they have helped me. I know that this is where Heavenly Father wants me to be at this time and he knows this is where I can do the most good and where I can grow the most. Being a missionary isn’t the easiest thing ever, but I know it has helped me grow and that it will continue to help me become better. I know I will grow to be a better person and more Christlike I love being here and I know I am only here for a short time and I need to do my best and continue to grow and become a better person. If you have questions I will do my best to answer and tell you whats going on. Nothing too crazy its all pretty normal or what I think normal is now ha. I guess my spiritual thought of the week will be on excuses we shouldn’t let ourselves get caught up in giving excuses and telling them about what happened instead just learn from what we did wrong and know that we will do better next time. Excuses aren’t good and they never will be. Instead of giving excuses just know for yourself to do better and grow. I know I need to do better myself at not making silly excuses but to just grow and know I will do better. I really like our motto “Enjoy doing better no excuses”. We need to be humble and learn to grow from what we did wrong and just do our best. I am so grateful for this church which is ran by a true and living prophet and that he leads and guides the church through revelation! I know that Christ lives and that he suffered for all of our sins so that one day we can return to him as long as we do our part and I am so thankful that he would give his life to save me. I know this is the only true church upon the face of the earth.

Love Elder Hildreth