Feb 2 Brooms and Camels

Hello there everyone, this week has been really quick. It's amazing how some weeks tend to just disappear in a flash.. and transfers are tonight, so I have no idea as to what will happen for me now.. I've been here for 7.5 months and have really loved Kisumu. It's my long time in a single area, so at this point anything can happen, I could stay or go, we won't know till tonight.

So I will only write some highlights for the week. We taught David this week and had a really long lesson with him, 3 hours long, and at the end of it, we came to feel that he has come full circle from where he began. It comes down to two doctrines that he has problem with, the Restoration of the Priesthood on the earth and only being held in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and also the necessity to be baptized by someone holding that authority. There are truly no loop holes when it comes to Salvation. It's either we follow the path which Christ has established or we walk off and get lost in "strange paths". We challenged him to pray specifically if the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only true church on the earth and if the Priesthood has been restored, but he dodged asking specifically, We feel that he knows he will get the answer, and once he does, how will he tell his family and those that he Pastored over for 30+ years.. So it's really sad to see the degression that he has made, but we will keep supporting him and teaching him, for we know that if he will come to know the Book of Mormon is true, everything else will fall into place for him.

We had quite a few bounces during the week which was rough, but we were able to fill our time with some good activities. We went and did service at the Orphanage again where they had us sweep again. While sweeping we finished one area and moved to the next then all of a sudden this big German Shepherd crawls out from under the fence and we froze not knowing what we should do. I went fro the wheelbarrow while my  companion stood with his broom. Once the dog saw that we weren't coming closer, it turned around back under the fence where it was protecting its puppies. We had a fun time doing service, we took goofy pictures with our broom sticks, and overall just enjoyed.

 

Saturday we did splits and that really helped with teaching more people for the week, we were able to teach a total of 19 lessons between our split. I was with Samuel and my companion was with Davis, I went and visited many less actives, while my companion went and visited more of our investigators.

Yesterday, during Fast and Testimony meeting, there were some super powerful testimonies born. Sister Lilian the one with three triplets bore testimony of prayer and the hymns of the church, really opens your eyes to how amazing hymns are and how inspiring they are. The First Presidency message in the front, says it perfect,

So today we had a busy morning, we had an awesome lunch at Java House the really nice restaurant in town, and then while buying some tire shoes at the market, this guy came up to us and totally wanted to bash. Bashing is worthless because it accomplishes nothing, so we talked for a few minutes then he said that he is Christ so we got up and left. Well on our way to the cyber, we found a Camel and totally got to ride it! Yeah we may not have bikes or Cars, but we sure do have Camels!

Well thats all for this week,
Love always,
Elder Rushton Jay Hiltbrand