Oct, 24th & 31st

You are right this week was extra amazing! I loved it. We got to hear Elder Nelson speak twice! :) And it was amazing he even said hi to my comp and me when he was leaving because we were the only missionaries that could come to that meeting, but he said it was good to see us :) it was really cool he looks a lot younger than he does on TV. He spoke about the young women values and how they are for every one. He used a lot of heart examples like he always does :) but it was cool! Then his wife spoke about prayer and how when we pray in the name of Christ we should be praying like Christ would pray for us. It was really good! Then the next day elder Nelson spoke on how the little kids are the future of the church and what the parents need to be doing to help them grow to become strong. I took a lot of notes :) it was great! I am so glad that the people of Kenya got to hear from him! Many of them are amazed at seeing him! There was just such a spirit here. The only thing that I am sad about is that he didn’t have time to see just the missionaries. That’s the only regret but other than that it was AMAZING!!

So that was the big high light of the week, but it did have some downers. I thought that being the DL was going to be an easy and fun job but I have to say that I was very much wrong!   It’s mostly because of the sister missionaries. They have had a lot of problems this week. Let’s just say that they don’t like each other at all! And I have had to try and help them get past it. But man it is hard. But we have got it calmed down enough that their not treating to beat each other any more :) so that’s a good thing. :) Plus we had a huge rain storm for the past like 3 days and their house flooded. So this week has been full of fun things to keep me on my toes :)

Ok I forgot to tell you last week about this guy. But I think I found the black grandpa T. I am not kidding it really hit me hard when we saw him. It had been a hard day we had been bounced from a lot of our appointments so we were tracking and we were in an area that no one wanted to hear the gospel. But there was this old man that call us over to him with his hand. And he looks like grandpa! He didn’t speak English but we still tried to communicate with him. He was as tall as grandpa, he didn’t have a lot of teeth, and sounded like grandpa when he spoke. He laughed like grandpa. he did everything like grandpa. But the thing that really hit me was his eyes!!!!!! They were the exact same color!!!!! That bright blue!!!!!! It was so unbelievable!!! You never see an African with colored eyes let alone that bright blue!!! I don’t know what it was but I felt like it was grandpa just checking up on me or something. But that was a crazy day!!

So the work is going good we are planning on having 3 to 4 baptisms within the next month. :) It’s going forth! This work is amazing! It really is the work of God! Like Elder Nelson said all of the prophets in all the earths’ history spoke about the last days and how the Gospel will fill the whole earth. He said how amazing is it that we get to participate in fulfilling those prophesies. I am a part you are a part we are all a part of this rock that was cut forth from the mountain without hands that will fill the whole earth. It’s wonderful to think about!
 You know what it is like when you teach someone the gospel! You form a bond with people and it is just truly wonderful! I love teaching I just wish that we had more and more people to teach so we wouldn't have to spend any time tracking just teaching.

And I;m sorry to say that the people here don’t do holidays. They kind of do Christmas but really all they do is have a nice dinner. They might get with family but mostly they just get a chicken and have a good dinner. So they they just like the time off work. 

About the animals, I haven't seen too many but I have seen some cool ones. I will try to send pics to mom. And also some CRAZY CRAZY looking bugs!!! found a beetle bigger than my thumb, a bright blue caterpillar, and some SUPPER big spiders some really amazing looking birds some lizards tons of goats and sheep, almost got ran over by a big herd of cows :) just normal things like that, and the bugs here, they not to bad. But there are ALOT of flies!!!! It’s crazy and yes we do sleep with nets and those are nice :) plus its cool to say that I have to sleep with a net :) it is kind of a pain to put around your bed at night instead of just falling into your bed but oh well :)

Ya tell me about how time flies!!!! I mean I have almost been out 4 months!!!!!! When did that happen?????? I don’t know!!!

So about teaching about tithing, sometimes it is very hard to teach. But the most common is worse. See here there are WAY TO MANY CHURCHES!!!!!!!!!!! No joke I know that there is over like 150 different churches just in my area! All of them have different pastors and things like that but the sad part about it is that the pastors just "preach" for money! They take advantage of the people. Having a church is a business here, so most people find it easy because they already pay money to their pastor.

 The work is going good! Just had my 3rd baptism yesterday. :) That was good and I would have to say that he is the most powerful yet! And we have more coming we have at least 4 planned for next month! It is sweet all of them are powerful! But it is sad because the members don't help us much almost all of the investigators we have tracked into them. I have not baptized a referral yet.

So the work is going good we are planning on having 3 to 4 baptisms within the next month. :) It’s going forth! This work is amazing! It really is the work of God! Like Elder Nelson said all of the prophets in all the earths’ history spoke about the last days and how the Gospel will fill the whole earth. He said how amazing is it that we get to participate in fulfilling those prophesies. I am a part you are a part we are all a part of this rock that was cut forth from the mountain without hands that will fill the whole earth. It’s wonderful to think about!

But yes :) its good here :) I love it!!!! And remember that I love you :) and if you know of any girls that want to write a super cool missionary in Africa you can hand out my address to the ones you find worthy. :)