Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 7:34 PM
hello friends.
this week has been a lil of a struggle cuz it's officially
the dry season and there is like no. water. at all. which is a yearly #struggle
for these peeps but a 1st time struggle for elder whiteman over here. so
apparently before, the municipal city people put a water pipe so town water
could come up to etas. huzzah!!! but then guess what happened. some chief or
dude or whatever got mad at the government for putting the pipe across his land
and the government not paying rent on the pipe being on his land or something
so he took his bush knife and broke the water pipe. so now no one in etas has
had or probably will have water for a long while cuz one dude is stubborn and
selfish. sigh....
but all is well the lord will provide! the last time about a
month ago when the water was literally almost gone, it rained like the next day
and we've had water ever since! but yeah. like we use that water in the tanks
for everything and the dudes and mamas from the village use it for just
drinking and cooking but there's a ton of people in the village and so people
come and take water all the time and part of me is like blahhhhh stop stealing
our waterrrrr.... but then the other part of me is like. you have 0 water and i
have some so... i have to let you take it... #conflict. im working on my
christlike attributes of faith and charity..
wow looking back this week has been really long lots of
stuff happened. and it doesn't help that im really really bad about keeping my
journal up to date. every night: im not gonna sleep until i update my journal!
*sits down for personal study time* *looks at journal* *looks at scriptures*
*starts reading scriptures* meh... i'll do it tomorrow morning. *tomorrow
morning* i have too much to do right now. i'll do that tonight. *repeat*
we had 2 baptisms this week! anita! she is a great person
who initially would run away from the missionaries like literally run and hide.
but one day west and i walk up to a house(not her house by the way) and no one
at that house really wanted to talk to us so she walks up. *4 months later*
baptized! nice wan! she had a lot of fears to get over and it took her time
wrestling with the spirit but she was so happy and stoked(even if you can't see
it in the pix no ni-van s smile in pictures...) for her baptism. wow.
and then junior! we thought he had just turned 8. child of
record. just helpin the ward a bit with that. go to fill out the record. he
turns 9 this saturday. nice wan!!! counts as a convert! kinda funny but it was
great cuz his whole family came to the baptism and they brought cake and yeah!
woot!
we went to a new part of eratap! and like no one knew who we
were! everyone thought we were j dubbs!it was kinda funny but it was a really
cool experience going somewhere no missionaries have ever been before!
the work moves forward! we're hoping that our other
investigators that are kinda progressing will be converted by the spirit and
repent and be ready for baptism before the end of the month! i've been in etas
6 months now and i know like. everyoneeeee which is good! but it's also
stretching me to go places i've never been before and it's pushing me to the
limitssssss!!!! #growth!
that's all for now got a district activity and a fhe to get
to! ale!!!
- baptism!!!!
- when the mission nurse sees my stained and a lil ripped shirt. trashes it and gives me a tent.
- a very nice clean tent!
- that face. that moment when you're re thinking your life decisions.
- chair.
- the squad on their way to the stake danceeeee!!!!! i feel so old.
- jubilee has persuaded his lil bro for us to teach him! what a great missionary! i hope he can straighten all his stuff and go on a mission!!! (he's 23 and has a scholarship so it's kinda in the air.)
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