Week 34

All the miracles out of nowhere (-Kansas)

 Elder Obeng and I trying hard to finish the Matooke

Working off the Matooke. The "Gym and Eat" Method.

This week has been a bit crazy! 

I had an Exchange with Elder Obeng on Wednesday. That was fun. After Lunch we went to see an investigator of theirs, and she pulled out a huge plate of matooke and some beans. we slaved away for about 30 minutes. I just barely managed to finish it, but Elder Obeng saw one of the kids going back for more and quickly took the chance to unload the last quarter of his portion on him. Lucky man... I was almost done at that point and was able to muscle it down anyway, but it certainly took a mind over matter mindset. The rest of the exchange was fun, but that was probably the highlight. I did learn a lot though.

Masaka Zone Confernce
(Picture from Sister Collings)

We also had our Zone Conference this week. President and Sister Collings came here this time. Even the AP's joined us. It was a good conference, we just met at the church. As the conference neared an end we picked up and moved our conference to Cafe Frikadellen so they could take our orders and start cooking. Now Cafe Frikadellen is famous for this "Monster Burger"... Sadly they could only make five because it is so big. The Chicken Burger was delicious though. Sometime soon I will give you a picture of me tackling it next time we go, but for now: here is Elder Kagson to show you it's size.

Elder Kagson vs. the Monster Burger. 

(Coming soon: My turn!)

A bit of a miracle this week is that on Tuesday we couldn't get a hold of anybody so we just decided to do a whole bunch of finding. Things weren't going well though. We were getting rejection after rejection, a phenomena that is quite abnormal for Uganda. I guess the area had been pretty well tracted by previous missionaries. Nobody seemed interested but we kept good morale as we were just glad they weren't pretending to be interestedwhen in reality we would never see them again. We pushed on until we found an interesting little guy named CB- a Chemistry teacher at a local school. He had to go quickly but we shared a small

Masaka Zone Conference...Powerful Missionaries
Picture from President Collings

message with him and he was very interested. CB decided he knew some guys who would also be interested so he took us back to meet eight young men around 18-20 years old. They all had great questions to ask and were very open to meeting again and learning more. After a full day of hard, unsuccesful work, we ended up finding nine new investigators right at the end of the evening (the goal we set that morning was eight). Whatever the situation: make sure you don't give up too soon. Even if hope seems slim, continue in faith and do your best. The lord will make up the rest! Those are this weeks words of wisdom!

I hope everything is going well for all of you. I'll talk to you next week!

It's foggy lately...

Love,

Elder Winn

Masaka Branch