Life in the Wilds...

This week had been really really good! :) even if a few days were a big bust.
We have been working hard and been trying to help the branches :) They really need some help we are trying our best. :)

  We got our street board sign done so that we can get the word out to a lot of people. And we are trying to do that at least once a week now.  Where we go out with a lot of things and share for a few hours in a spot. We got a lot of hopefuls this last time that we did it and we are just praying that they will truly want to learn more. :) Did you ever do street boarding on your mission?
We are working on finding more and more people to teach and I think we are really making some head way. :) We have one investigator that will be baptized on the 12 of Aug. :) His name is Peter :) He is a great guy :) We are trying to make more people ready for that same day. :)
We also got 2 STRONG new investigators this week that have already said they want to be baptized. :) So we are looking forward to that  :)  Also this next Sunday we are having a baptism of a man named peter who is one amazing fellow. :) It will go very well I think.
So it has been a wonderful week for me. :) We also have started to going to a

university here in town and we are sharing with a lot of people there but a lot of them need to be more humble to have the Spirit touch them the way they need so pray for them if you can.  I know  that you have a lot of things that you are praying for. :)

So this week I am going to start with my 2 stories this week :) 

Story # 1 : I went on exchanges this week to do some interviews. :) And this is the same place where I hiked that mountain. But we didn’t go to the mountain this time but we still had to go into some deep bush. :) And what happened is we were going to see a less active member family and to get there we had to jump across a river. So as I was jumping when I got to the other side I landed hard I was fine but something on my bag slipped. The bag came off my shoulder and went right into the river. The water was going to take it away I let out a "holy crap" then I tried to go get it. But the kid who I was with named Elder Kigongo from Uganda thought I was falling into the river so he grabbed my arm and stopped me from getting my bag but I turned to him and I told him I need to get my bag in a loud voice he let go and I grabbed the bag before it was washed away. Good thing the bag is water proof all but the two big holes in the top. We got it and my scriptures only got a little wet so that was good.   Then we went to the members place and that’s where we found that I had lost my name tag. So when we were coming back we looked for it but it was no where to be seen. Then we asked a member that lives close to the river if he has seen it but he said no he had not. So we went on thinking that my tag was lost forever. But then the next morning we had a knock on the door to the flat and the member had found it in the river!!!!!! oh man I was so happy!!!!!! It was super cool!!!! :) I was so happy to get my tag back!!!!! :)

Story # 2: So we had planed on having a baptism yesterday. :) We were all exited. :) And on Saturday we took time to go clean the font and to fill it up with water. :) That took a long time and it was late and we needed to go see one last person before we went home. So we left it with one of the members from the branch to watch it and he did and turned the water off and everything... it was good. So we had a good night sleep that night. We get up the next morning and the member that we left the water with texts us that he looked at the font this morning and that all that water has gone out and that the Church has no water to fill it up. Because the churches water gets turned on only now and then. So they fill tanks so they can have water to use. But we used that water to fill the font the day before. So long story short we had to pray really hard and hope that the water would be turned on. So we went and did sacrament meeting which I spoke in by the way and then after that my comp. and me with a member of the branch presidency went up the road to where we get water,to ask if they could turn it on for us. But they said that they could not do that. :( So we had to postpone the baptism until 2 weeks. 
So those are the stories this week. :) I hope you like them. :) I think they are funny :)
So just in case you are wondering my week has been really good. :) I have had a fun time!!!! :)
We are looking hard for new people to teach! :) so I hope that goes well. :)

Love,

Elder Tyler Hodges