November 7th

Life in Kenya has been amazing a real eye opener like always.

So you are reporting on the mission? :) I was wondering when that would come. But the only problem is that I don’t really know what to say. Just things like always go to the temple!!!! And that I love everyone! Truly live the gospel!

That is the biggest problem the Church has out here. People really know about the bible and even the book of Mormon sometimes but people don’t do what they know they should do. So all of us need to take a stand! And do what we know to be right!
And what we do for service is we dig "shambas" or a garden. Then we fetch water for people. Things like that. In other places they help people make their houses out of mud bricks. It really depends on where you are.
I have had 3 baptisms so far and many more on the way they are all great people! One of them we found through a little girl. :) we were just walking down the road and this little girl just started saying "how are you" so we went over and started joking with here and that is weird because we never do that then a man stuck his head out from behind the steal gate and said hello is there anything that we want. And we thought that he was the father of the little girl so we explained that we were missionaries and we set up an appointment and we taught him and now he is a member. But he is not that father of the little girl he just lived in the same compound. But it’s so cool to see some of the workings of the Lord, even through little kids. :) 
I don’t know if that is what you want but to tell you the truth I have a hard time remembering what American life is like. It is just so different here. 
It sounds like you have had a fun week :) its good to hear that you are having fun without me :)

Dad, thank you for the help about missionaries. I hope and pray that I can become like them in anyway shape or form. There are many times when I feel like I am not good enough to be out here. When I say something I really wish I hadn’t. Sometimes I just pray for strength to walk out the door. I hope that doesn’t sound like I am a bad missionary. I just want to do my best but sometimes I don’t think my best is good enough. Like we have this one investigator she is wonderful! One of our best if not the best! We had her baptism planned for this Sunday so we were going over the interview questions with her. When it turns out that she has participated in an abortion. So we talked to president about it and he wants us to postpone her baptism.  We didn’t want to tell her that but we had to, and so we did. She took the news very very badly. And in fact she didn’t even show up to church at all! Which is bad for her, she has been devout the whole time we have been teaching her. So when she was crying to us and asking why we can’t do it on Sunday I tried to comfort her but nothing I said, no scripture, nothing helped. I just felt like I couldn't help in any way. It was by far the worst experience I have had on mission!
But I will take what you said into my own study and I hope I can become a better missionary and a better person.
I am glad that sister Blackburn got my letter :) she truly is one amazing women I wish I had gotten to know her before my mission. She writes me almost as much as you guys do. :)

Sorry I don’t have a lott of time this week. It has been a really cool and crazy day we went and saw some snakes and animals here and now I have like no time to email sorry. But at least I got some cool pics out of it that I will send to you.

Bennions!

I am so happy to hear from you guys!!!!  I did get the Bennion package so thank you very much! I love it and you have been awarded 50 points for it :) yet now you are at 150 and still in the lead but only by 50 :) lol keep up the good work.
And holy cow Logan. I don’t even know how to program a computer. But that will be super cool for you! Work hard in whatever you are doing.
And you guys sound like a missionaries dream family!!! Helping less actives and feeding them there is not much more that they want other then referrals.

I love hearing from you ALL!!!