Thanks for the pics! I miss cool weather. And grass. This is my favorite time of year back home! 

 

It's been a good week. Not the best for working though. This week is the genocide memorial week. Tuesday the 7th it started and everything was shut down. Even all the people we called said it would be impossible to meet with them and we shouldn't even bother getting out. I guess everyone gathers to their sector to share stories and cry. 

 

I think things should be getting back to normal this week. But we did find a few awesome families with a bunch of cute little kids. Transfers are today. Elder K and I are still together here. This is his last one. K3 is getting white-washed again so I'll be the youngest missionary in the house here again. :/ I've been spoiled with a fan my whole mission until last week. One night the power went off for a while then came back. The fan never did.  :(

The memorial place was sad and sick. The hardest part was the children section. The walls were covered with their smiling pictures and there were plaques with info about them. Some of their favorite things, then their last words, like "I love you" or "when is someone gonna come save us?", then the cause of death, which I don't even want to get into. It was a really disturbing and powerful place. But it's amazing to see how Rwanda has improved so much now.

Love and miss you guys!

-Elder Collison

Mwiriwe! Or I guess for you it's Mwaramutse..
We had another baptism yesterday! There's a guy named Francis who was baptized just before I got here. It was his wife Esther. We started teaching her my first day here. She doesn't know English so Francis has been our translator and has been helping her a lot. The Claudine that was baptized last week is engaged to Francis and Esther's son who is in France. Delphine is friends with a few of the young women in my branch and she's been coming to church for several months. We started to teach her shortly after I got here and she was really excited to finally be baptized. It was a really neat experience.

Last week on Palm Sunday everyone in town was carrying around palm leaves.  This week our zone got together and had a passover feast. It was really cool to eat and discuss all the symbolism.

Last night we went over to the Palmers for our Fast Sunday dinner. She makes some good food. And we got to watch a few of the priesthood session talks. I think we'll be able to watch the rest of conference with our branch towards the end of the month. I really liked what I heard though.

Alright. Love ya'll lots!

-Elder Collison

Sorry. It's gotta be quick today. We just got done at the genocide memorial and we have fhe at 6. The memorial was really touching. The part about the children most of all. I can explain a bit more another week hopefully. This weeks been great! We had two baptisms yesterday! Claudine and Delphine. Again, I'll explain more later. Elder K baptized Claudine and I baptized Delphine. It was great!

Love you lots!!

-Elder Collison