Hey everybody!
Sorry for not emailing yesterday. They moved our P-day to today for this week due to us having the privilege of Elder Curtis and his wife come visit us for the day. We had a wonderful conference with them. It was very neat because just before the conference started Elder Curtis called in the Zone Leaders to just ask us some questions and see how the areas were doing. It was cool to just have a small little meeting with him and even have the conference. I was here in January when he came here but this time it just felt so much more in person through out the whole thing. It was really good.
As for the trip to Freetown.. That was interesting. Let me start from the beginning. It all started Monday night. We had gone to our lesson with this family that we were just meeting. During the lesson my head was just turning and I wasn't feeling too good. Because we had gone and played soccer that day it was really sunny and I hadn't drunk like any water on the day and so i was super dehydrated. We finished our little lesson and as we were leaving we had just left the family behind and as we were saying our goodbyes I knew I was about to loose everything in my stomach and i was just praying that i could hold it in for about one more min... Luckily I did. As we were walking away everything just came up. (it's a good thing my whole mission is just bush because then i don't have to worry about making it all the way home) We got home a few min later and started to get everything ready to go. We were to go spend the night at the couple missionaries home so they could take us early morning to the bus stop. Some how i managed to focus enough to get all my stuff together, walk to the junction and get bike there. When we got there we realized that we forgot all of our paperwork that we needed to take with us... We had another missionary come bring it to us. By this point we were both hungry and we had packed some eggs to make. So we very timidly asked if we could use the couple's kitchen to cook... The ENTIRE time we were cooking we were just whispering and scared to use anything and make it dirty. I was about five times more scared of making anything dirty than i would be at grandma's house. haha :) Well, because we didn't want to dirty any extra dishes my companion said he would just flip the egg without the spatula. . . . . SPLAT!!! right on the ground! Yes we almost DIED laughing. In the morning we were up at three so we could be to the bus by four to bored it by five. On the bus a pastor got up and started preaching for a few min. As the bus stopped to let him off at the edge of town before we left people were handing up money so we handed up a Restoration Pamphlet. :) About two hours into the drive our bus broke down in the middle of nowhere at some random little village. Great.. Now what were we supposed to do. After waiting for a while they said that the bus from Kenema would be coming and we could squeeze onto that one. We knew that we wouldn't fit with all the people and got lucky that a taxi was passing that was open. We got the taxi and he said he would take us to Freetown. He changed his mind when we got to Waterloo and dropped us off. Now we had to wait in line to get into a Poda. While in line some guy came up to me and said to follow him. He took us to the front of the line and just put us in the van. I felt bad, but I know that he was helping us to get to where we needed to be. This ride Took about an hour and a half. About 35-40 min longer than it should have. From there we had to take another Poda to get to the office. It took us from five o'clock until twelve fifteen just to get to the office. We were sooo tired. We had an awesome meeting. Holy cow! the mission is growing sooooo fast! There are so many missionaries on their way and things are just going to get crazy. But it will be sweet. On Wednesday the bus ride home took us straight and there were no problems and we really enjoyed the ride back :) It was nice to go see Freetown again even just for that small time. But Bo is nice, nice and quiet.
My companion and I have been wanting to go out and do more service projects. They don't get done too much here because they are usually tried to be made some big thing. We decided that we would just start finding things on our own instead of waiting for our entire district to find something and agree. On Saturday we were sitting at this house waiting for our investigator, Josephine, to come. While we were there the Auntie was cooking and was chopping some wood for the fire to cook on. We asked if we could help, she said no. We looked over and saw about three BIG logs. We asked her if we could help. She said the only one that could do that was her man... CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! We started in on these Mango tree trunks with what i will describe to be as a 9 Iron golf club.... No... That is not a joke. The axe's they have here aren't like back home. The heads are small and not very sharp.... Well, I can guarantee that you've never seen two missionaries in ties and tags sweating so much. We cut two trunks for about an hour and a half. Wow, our backs are so sore and our hands are soo blistered! But it was a good and fun experience that really opened up the aunt and uncle to us which will hopefully be able to get into discussions here soon.
Mom, I received a few letters from you just yesterday. One was the letter from Elder M. Mathias. Wow! that kid has really got things moving in the right direction for him mentally and spiritually. Even physically as he says he is playing ball like a boss! sounds like fun. I was really so proud of him reading that whole letter and I feel like I'm the one who needs to grow up now as he has surpassed me by far in growth. Did you give sky a good beat down for the temple graffiti? 1-7? why 1-7? was he planning on writing down answers? haha. Sky,... good luck with the lunch money making millions... I'll have to think about things and let you know next week for the package.
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