So yeah hearing about Granmda Lila was pretty rough but hey that's how the river flows. Not going to lie I was way thankful for the plan of salvation and how I know life goes on. So this week was pretty sweet. The Tongan pig roast was way good. Mostly because it was pig. Um though as we were waiting for the pig to get finished we were playing football and I kind of hurt myself. I ran to try and get a ball and well couldn't really stop before a 4 ft block wall so I tried to jump it. I almost hurdled it, almost. My shin totally made connection with the top brick so me and the brick tumbled over the wall. Getting old, just can't do what I use to.
I just got some small cuts though but yeah I felt like I was definitely being watched over. So teaching one of our investigators this week with one of her friends I have heard the funniest excuse not to come to our church. The lady looked at us straight faced and said, "Your church is too clean." Who says that? We barely were able to keep our composure to end the lesson and laughed about it the rest of the night. I went on splits this week with an elder from South Africa. It was interesting. My favorite part was that we contacted a lady named Dorothy Brown and sat down to teach her. I told her that I had a good friend named Charlie Brown who had a great dog named Snoopy. Yeah it went right over her head but it made me smile on the inside. :D
So yeah another day we were teaching this woman named Beatrice Anaab. She sells like fried yam and fish and people kept coming to buy from her so my companion continued teaching and I started selling her stuff. They call it koliko in ewe and yeah when an obruni sells koliko people buy it. In about 30 mins time I had sold all of the yam and stuff that she had bought to sell the whole day. Saturday morning I woke up to rain at 3 am. It kept raining till 3 again. Luckily I was able to convince my companion to go out once we got our umbrellas out. First time I've actually used mine my entire mission I think. There was a soccer field that had completely flooded over that we were wading across. It reminded me so much of taking some of the irrigation turns when Dad was gone. Kind of made me miss home a little bit. The worst part was right in the middle of that was when Pres. Smith called me and told me about Grandma.
Sunday we were going to have a baptism at our meeting house till we came and found that someone had completely ripped out the tile floor and all that was there was dirt. So luckily our branch is sweet and called another ward in a different building and then drove our candidates there and we were able to get everything taken care of. Even though the candidates had to sit down in the water and just lay down to be immersed since the water was so low. Sunday we also started to proselyte in the military camp, Michel or Michal camp. Other missionaries have tried but always get thrown out. I think part of it was because of the freeze the government put on the church a few years ago. We kind of walked in and owned the place. Talked to the right people and all of those things and basically are welcome anytime. It is amazing what a smile will do for you. Anyway that is my week for you. I love you guys and hope that everything goes well this week and everybody can travel to and from Idaho safely.
Love Elder G
Monday, September 20, 2010
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