Mar 25, 2013

Hey Family,

Today I am using the Senior couples cumputer because the Internet is down here. I have been transfered to Kagugu branch to finish my mission and I will be a normal missionary. I will miss the people in Kishushu they were awesome and we had a good time and they are such awesome people. Now the Lord needs me in Kagugu so thats were I will go. Elder Terry is the new Zone Leader and I was super excited for him he will do great. My new companion is from Zimbabwe and his name is Elder Mushonga he lives next to Elder Shinga. I will also live in a four man apartment with Elder Steffenhagen, and Elder Mwetu. Elder Cardon was sent back to Uganda to finish his mission. It was sad to see him go and the Kagugu branch will miss him. Also Elder Bitter is now Elder Terry's new companion. So this week was pretty intresting I said goodbye to some of the recent converts and most of the members I will see them around though until I go to Uganda. Also I was able to learn some of the area in Kagugu and some of the people here they are all great we have a pretty great family called Ernest and Pauline they have been married traditionally and he is going for CPA in accounting so he is a pretty smart guy and he has been coming to church regurally with his family. Also we had four baptisms this Sunday with Robert, Valance, Oliver, and Emmy I don't know them too well I was just transfered to the area, but it is still great that they were baptized. I will also be able to work with the Branch which is somehow struggling because it is still young their Branch President Jean Paul isn't married and he is still young in the church himself so it doesn't have much right now so we are striving to find those who will make a more imediate impact on the Branch and even still it will take some time for them to receive the Melchezedeck priesthood so I still have work to get done. We have a good number of investigators coming to church some we will be meeting with this next week and helping them progress towards baptism some seem really great so I am excited to see how they progress. So for the first few days this week I will be back in Kishushu because Elder Terry needs to go to Uganda for a Zone Leaders Training so I will be working with Elder Bitter until Elder Terry comes back which will be Wednesday night. It will be great to go back to my old area and see some of the people. Anyways it will be a great week the new apartment is wonderful it's clean and pretty big. I will show you pictures of it next week. It will also be great because we will have many people to teach and share the gospel with. I will be praying that we find a family to bring into the gospel to really help the church grow here. Well I am grateful to be in Rwanda and I know it is such a wonderful blessing to be here with these humble people. They look at the name tag and just stare the church is new here when it gets recognized it will grow we just need to find the right people to help it grow. Anyways love you all hope you had a great week!

Love, Elder Hildreth