Enock Rutashubanyuma Leopold is one of the six Tanzanian seminarians currently studying at the University of Navarra. He is studying the last year of the high school program course in Theology, is 33 years old and is fully convinced of the need to do evangelizing work when he returns to his homeland: "The Church in Africa is waiting for us so that we can give faith of our hope and bring many souls to Heaven".

He arrived in Spain in July 2016. He did not speak Spanish and, in addition to the difficulties of adaptation due to the climate and culture, there was the pain of the death of his mother two months after landing. However, he has never lost his smile. His perseverance has enabled him to overcome language, climate and cultural barriers, and he has comfortably completed all his academic courses.

Enock has an affable and fun character. And he has been able to adapt to local customs very naturally: financial aid with his pastoral work in the Parish of San Nicolas and has won the hearts of the children of Pamplona representing Balthazar the last two years in the Three Kings Parade. "It has been an incredible experience," he says.

For him, his vocation comes from afar, although it took him a long time to "say yes to God". He is the second of a Catholic family of 6 siblings, where they prayed the Holy Rosary every day and lived their faith in community in the parish of his home town, Kabirizi. On one occasion, his father, whom he helped in the agricultural work after the high school, seeing his behavior and knowing his Schools, had raised him the option of becoming a priest, but he refused outright.

Shortly after finishing high school programs of study , his father passed away and he decided to go to In Geita Gold Mining Training Center University to study Geology programs of study . Together with his brother, he had to support his family. After three years of programs of study "and efforts", he started working for a North American gold mining company business : Geita Gold Mine. He traveled a lot for work, but he never abandoned his faith, even though the environment was not always favorable. From there he earned the nickname "the religious one". "'Bruda' in my native language ," he explains.

He began to attend to training talks and parish activities, as well as to lead a more intense sacramental life. Little by little, he took small steps until he made the decision to join the seminar Major of Kibosho. As he himself affirms, "vocation is a conversation in which many voices intersect, not only God's and ours. Each person or circumstance in our journey is not a coincidence.

Once he finished his training in the philosophical programs of study the bishop of his diocese sent him to Spain to study theology. God willing, he will finish the high school diploma in June and next year he will begin the programs of study of licentiate degree.

This summer he will participate for the second consecutive year in the project of volunteer activities that he himself started last year: "Tanzania Tumaini", which means Tanzania hope. The goal is that young university students, accompanied by a couple of priests, get to know the life and reality of the Tanzanians. They help in social, educational and health work: "They get a lot out of the experience, because they realize that, living with nothing, they live well and happily".

He proudly explains that he was the first of the six Tanzanian students who came to study theology with a scholarship from the CARF Foundation. And he is sample especially grateful because, as he points out, the financial aid has not only been for him, "but for the whole Church in Tanzania".