I had a good week as usual, this week had me pretty beat mentally but The Lord always provides support and love for us when we need it. I am very grateful for prayer and the scriptures, they are some of the greatest tools and gifts we are able to use. I have learned a lot these past two transfers. This week I had an exchange with my District Leader Elder Barrezueta from Florida and some fun new experiences!
This week was pretty busy with training The Childs and MLC. We have been doing about 1 hour of training everyday with The Childs and they are really learning and helping out a lot! They have had many questions and it is a blast answering them and I know we are putting our job into the right hands. I will be pretty excited to be regular proselyting Elders again. Office work is fun, but it can get a bit tiring after a while. There really is not anything spiritual about it!
Like I said we also had MLC on Tuesday and Wednesday. That is where all the Zone Leaders from the mission come and council with The Mission President and The AP's. We were invited to come and talk about a few things which was a good experience for me. We also got some free dinner out of it, so who can complain again that right?
On Friday I had an exchange with Elder Barrezueta. He was born in Ecuador, but came to America and now lives in Miami, Florida. He is a great guy and I was able to learn a lot from him. It was also good for me because it forced me into understanding the area more. I don't know what it is about Freetown but it is a crazy confusing area and I am having a lot of trouble with it, but it is coming small small. We had a few funny experiences, one was that we went to eat FuFu with the Childs and the Family History Elders. FuFu is cassava root that is beaten and mixed with water and some other stuff. After made, it comes out in balls with the consistency of soft play-doh. They usually put it in soup. It is then eaten with your hands and swallowed whole! It was kind of funny to see them try and do it. When I first tried it, I did not like it at all but now I really enjoy it! Lets just say the Childs have really been thrown into the culture! We had a good time.
I am not totally sure that this next story is for Cat lovers... so be cautious.
We had some lessons in the morning today. Our first lesson was at Ramatu Kamara's house, who we are preparing for Baptism on August 17th. We were talking about Baptism and Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. I swear the Spirit was so strong you could have reached out and grabbed a chunk of it! She lives in a family house, which means anyone in the family can live there who is apart of the family. There are a lot of people in the house and around the house and so we meet in the back yard. As we were talking some of the men around us started trying to catch a cat. We had ignored them for a bit but they were running around and making lots of noise. They finally caught a cat and held for a little bit. They then put the cat in a bag and started slamming it into the wall and on the ground! We totally stopped our lesson and were just like what the heck?! They probably went on for like 1 minute straight trying to kill this cat, they stopped and thought it was dead so they took it out of the bag and the cat was still breathing! So guess what they did for another minute! After this was done, they began to skin it and are probably enjoying some nice cat right about now! Pretty crazy how different it is over here, that is actually a pretty normal way to kill cats or dogs around here to eat.
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| The average "backyard" in Freetown |
See you all next week.
-Elder Morgan
This was a separate email Eli sent:
On my exchange with Elder Barrezueta (District Leader) we ate some beans that a member prepared for us the night he came to our apartment. The next morning we both had some runny tummy and we figured it was the beans. We then went out to proselyte when I was still feeling a little bit weird. About half way through the day we ate some fufu and then went to another lesson.We arrived to the house and I had to go to the bathroom so bad! I tried to hold it in but the pressure was just too much! So we began to talk but all the sudden I asked to use their bathroom. David (the guy we were teaching) showed me where it was and I ran in there to find the nastiest toilet I had ever seen in my life. I quickly realized my situation and threw a prayer up to Daddy God for some protection. It was a noisy experience, if you know what I mean. If I could use an example it would be as if someone had blown up a woopie cushion and was just jumping on it and then an earthquake hit and shook the house.
When I had completed my journey, I soon came into another predicament. There was no toilet paper in sight! I kind of laughed but soon realized the seriousness of the matter. My heart began to quicken as I looked around and all I saw was a small bucket with some water in it. I realized I was gonna have to go Salone style on this one. I threw another prayer to Daddy God and just told myself I am becoming apart of the culture. I grabbed the bucket and just went to town with my hand! I am just grateful they had soap laying on the floor to use! I walked out and just looked at Elder Barrezueta and laughed. I told him after we left and He told me he had toilet paper that whole time! I should've just asked him! But new experiences make new stories right??
It has been raining like crazy here!! It rained for 3 days straight and people say it will be raining for 7 days straight pretty soon.
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| Agnes, the Super Mom that I told the stories about last week |
Wow Elder Morgan, you sure are not lacking for experiences both spiritual and physical and you might as throw mental in there as well. Keep up the good work!! You are doing a great service!
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