It has been a great and busy week here in Mpumudde! The first of the events was doing Service on Friday. There is a recent convert who has been missing church a lot lately so we went to do service with him in hopes to easy his burden. He is having issues with his family right now. Not sure what exactly. Seems like some sort of school fees issue from how he explained it. Anyways we went to his garden with him and a few members and started to make mounds to plant sweet potatoes. He makes his money off farming. I got baked by the sun though. When you wear a collared shirt all day you neck gets sensitive to sunlight... It was fun to see members help out another and the joy of service is always a blessing! It is amazing how you can just forget yourself and nothing matters but you are happy!
Saturday was a whole lot of taxi riding and waiting room time. I had to go to The Surgury. A hospital to get checked on. I had a fever and some other symptoms that weren't a big deal but Sister Collings wanted me to go get checked just in case. So we spent the whole day taxiing to Kampala and Back along with a solid 6 hours in the hospital. DON'T WORRY I AM OKAY FOLKS. We let around 6:30am and got back at 8:50pm.
The HIGHLIGHT of the week was baptizing the Mary Grace Family. It consists of Jah-jah (Grandma in Luganda), Mom, And 2 daughters. This family was a miracle find! Elder Goodrich and I tracted into Mary first. She is the grandmother. She said her uncle or Nephew was a member and let us share. Well then after a 2nd or 3rd visit we met Mary Grace her 8 year old granddaughter. Mary was sick that day and told us we should come back but then Mary Grace stopped us and said "NO, wait teach me" so we taught her. Then Claire the 14 year old sister joined the next lesson and eventual he mother sat in on the lessons! And You can just see how the gospel has blessed this family! It was an awesome experience. I got to baptize Mary and Harriet, And I won't lie I as scared to baptize Mary. She is old, and not a small old lady, and people here end to fear water. If she got scared going down I was for sure going down too! Luckily both her and Harriet were easy. I think Harriet was the most scared of the 4 of them. It was a tender experience to see the family enter the waters of baptism. The 12 year old brother we will baptize in 2 weeks, He has been at boarding school so we haven't been able to each him until now. I can't wait. Seeing conversion is the greatest thing about this work!
Have a great week everyone!
Love Elder Seibert
Photos: Service and the Baptism
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