During the lessons he began to understand the character of God, "that he is a father, especially when we prayed the Lord´s Prayer. I was happy and I trusted that I had received a father. I don´t have one on earth, the one in heaven is enough." [15] He was a very eager student, so Pastor Martin Ostwald, [16] the missionary who baptized him one year later, wrote in 1898, "He probably knows the Bible and the catechism, also arithmetic, reading and writing better than many a fellow of the same age in Germany." [17]
[15] Alikuwa ni mwanafunzi mwenye hamu sana, hivyo Mchungaji Martin Ostwald [16] mmsionari aliyembatiza mwaka mmoja baadaye, aliandika katika mwaka wa 1898, "Inaelekea anafahamu Biblia na Katekisimo, pia hesabu, kusoma na kuandika vizuri zaidi kuliko wenzake wa rika lake wa Ujerumani." [17]