Hello Everyone!
Glad to hear from all of you and to know that Napa is well on its way to recovery. I can't imagine what it was like! I have been praying for your safety and comfort though.
As for the missionary work in Uganda it continues. I was blessed to have my first ful day in the area this Saturday and even though it was all finding it was great. I have missed being able to just go and do the work I was originally assigned to do. The Office work has begun to start to fall in place and It is getting more peaceful. We completed our 2nd round of apartment inspections with no problems and basically ever fan in the mission has been brought in for repair it feels like. The dust messes them up slowly and with missionaries leaving them on all the time they wear out quick but luckily we have a great member who fixes and cleans them very well for way cheaper then buying a new fan. With the way people here fix all their appliances it makes me wish we could go back to the 50s or whenever it was when things were built to last more and there were people to repair things like toasters rather then we just through it out and get a new one. Church was great yesterday. Had a good talk about meekness and a couple on the Restoration. Also we as a mission are preparing to have Elder S Mark Palmer come this week and give us a training/conference. It will be exciting. We have been studying a lot of talks about repentance and obedience. I have really enjoyed learning more and more about repentance. I have heard lots of times how repentance is good, how it is like a prescription not a punishment etc but recently I have really started to understand how it really is a blessing. And even how we should repent daily not just when we have these large serous sins. It's not only when we go to our Bishop and confess but it is the simply admittance of our daily follies to the Father each night in our prayers.
An exert that I liked from: Teach Repentance and Baptize Converts Missionary Broadcast, January 20, 2016, Our Messages for Missionaries, Elder Dallin H. Oaks Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
"When a person has gone through the repentance process, the Savior does more than cleanse that person from sin. He also gives him or her new strength. That strengthening is essential for us to realize the purpose of the cleansing, which is to return to our Heavenly Father. To be admitted to His presence, we must be more than clean. We must also be changed from a morally weak person who has sinned into a strong person with the strength to resist sin and the spiritual stature to dwell in the presence of God. That is what it means to be saved."
Anyways thats all I got. Have a great week everyone.
Love Elder Seibert
Pictures: One of our aurds showing us how he got to the 4th floor to help us unlock a door to an apartment we were locked out of and what the senior couple, Elder and Sister Wittwer, did for my birthday. Very kind of them.
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