Picture 1- Eric the elephant gummy snacks.
Picture 2- Elder Keck and me
Picture 3- Taking a picture of me shaking my head. Haha, it was just a funny one.
Picture 4- Eating some rice and African gravy. It was delicious.
Hello, can you believe I've been out for 4 months? It's weird. But anyways, this week has been quite a hectic one. I think I was just asking for it last week when I said not much had happened. So to start off the week, we had a Zone training on Tuesday, and then I went on an exchange with a zone leader, Elder Fabiano. Then, I lost the mobile phone on the bus... So, that night we stayed at the Wandsworth elder's flat so that we could be contacted and stuff like that. Then the next day, we found out that one of the elders in Mitcham got really sick and had to go home, so Elder Fabiano and one of the wandsworth elders went and took care of Mitcham for half the day, and I and the other wandsworth elder took care of wandsworth for half the day. Then we went to my area, and the other ones went to wandworth! Ahh, it was so confusing and complicated and fun, and it probably doesn't make sense to you guys. It was a really good experience, but a tiring one as well. So that was just a really weird thing, but it was alright. :)
And then on Thursday I has looking forward to a normal night so that I could actually get the amount of sleep I'm supposed to, but then some missionaries from an area called Crawley stayed at our flat that night because they needed to be at the airport in the morning, and ours was the closest to it or something.
Phew! So this week was really just a lot of running around and traveling. We didn't have a lot of time to actually teach people until Thursday, but it was alright.
Haha, let me know if any of that made any sense to anyone.
Let's see, a kind of awkward thing happened this week as well. We were at this African lady's house, and we were just talking about repentance. She has an 11 month year old daughter that she was holding while we were talking. All of a sudden, she starts breastfeeding it right in front of us! She didn't cover it up or anything! It felt quite weird to be teaching a lady when she was a bit exposed (when I say a bit, I mean COMPLETELY), but we did maintain a level a professionalism. So yeah, that was an interesting experience. Let's move on.
I can't really pinpoint a really spiritual experience this week, but because I spent a few nights this week with a group of other missionaries, I had a lot of good discussions about missionary work and the gospel in general. It was really cool to talk with other missionaries and just talk about how we can be better and help the people over here better. We decided that we need to be bold with people in this area. Not like "hell-fire and damnation", but we just have to go to people and really invite them to repent so that they can receive blessings from God. We can't be wishy-washy about it, and we shouldn't be anyways because really we're just trying to help people.
Okay, I must be going now, so thank you for writing me and everything. Love you guys, buhbye!
