August 31, 2015

 A few short things to hit on this week...

We had the monthly service day Saturday. All the three branches came together as a Mormon helping hands group and shoveled weeds out of the ditches. It was really good to see everyone from the other branches again. Also last night we went over to Mama Cecile's for dinner. I just love that woman. In this new branch we've been fed a lot! I think I'm already past the amount of dinner appointments from my last five transfers total. I'm enjoying it :)

The new missionary finally came. Elder A. Elder N is training him. The transfer is already two weeks over but he was waiting for his visa stuff. He's a good kid and super excited to work. A good addition to Rwanda.

I gave a talk again on Sunday.

So a whole white family came to church yesterday. I guess they just moved here for four years now. They came late and left early so I didn't get to talk to them much, but there's a little boy who is exactly like Gabe. At least the Gabe I know from back then. Same age, looks similar, and sounds the same too. Love you Gabey! Don't change!

As we were walking around one day last week, we ended up walking next to a little girl and felt like we needed to talk to her. Asked if she had a family and if she'd mind taking us to meet her parents. So she led us for a little bit until we came to this house we had knocked on a few days before and set up a return time which fell through. The mama we had talked to last time wasn't there but we talked to maybe a daughter and we're going back this week. But she said she had no idea who the girl was that led us there. So we asked her about that and she took us to a different home and disappeared. So we knocked and they didn't know any little girl like that either. But that other family spoke English as well and we're going to go back this week too. So we don't know who it was. Maybe just felt creeped out and was trying to ditch us, but she did guide us well I believe!

Love you all!

-Elder Collison

September 7, 2015

Well, the rainy season has begun again. Back to being super soaked all the time now. It actually feels really nice though. It gets really cool and windy.

We had a really good week. We met several awesome people and had some really powerful lessons. The Chatfields came down for Zone Conference last week. That was super great. It was mainly focused on faith. One of my favorite thing that he said about that was, "Did Moses go up to the water and say I hope the Red Sea parts? No! He commanded it!" This is the Lord's work and we need to believe that when we do our part, things will happen. It was a really great and spiritual conference and every time we have them, missionary work becomes totally different and is a lot better.

I've been washing all my clothes by hand lately. I have a washer at my new place but the problem is the power is always going out. And every p-day now we haven't had any power. But I actually kind of enjoy it and everything gets a lot cleaner.

Love,

Elder Collison