Hey Family!
This week was amazing! We met a bunch of people from Utah that were here doing service stuff and then went on safari afterwards, but they gave us a bunch of great referals. Most of the referals they gave us were people that they have known for years becuase they come every year for their service stuff and they were extremely well prepared. They had all sorts of church dvds and had even been reading the book of mormon and stuff. On top of that, we met with a buch of people we contacted last week and they all seemed either interested or at least willing to investigate. We ended up haveing 8 investigators at church this week and we had people standing at the back of the room and sitting at the sacrament table just to accomodate the people that were there. There are two other missionaries here in Arusha but no sisters or couples, and the four of us are the intire zone because the closest people to us are about 6 hours away. the nearest stake is in Nairobi, which is the only stake in the whole mission. I like my companion, it was hard to get him to work at first because he didnt work to much with his previous comp but he is doing better now and we are really seeing the results. There are bugs all over the place, and yes we do sleep with mosquito nets, almost eveywhere in the mission does. i stopped taking the malaria pills after i got the parasite a few months ago, i dont know if it was a good idea to tell you that, but most missionarys dont take them and even the ones that do end up with malaria sometime before they go home, so the common consensus here is just to forget them and trust in God and that he will watch over us as missionarys. I do want to run the disney marathon when i get home, that would be awesome, i will have to start working out in the mornings to get ready for it now. Water situation isnt much better, we got a 200 liter tank that we can fill for when the water is here but once that runs out then we are back to hauling it ourselves. i love you all so much!
So on monday we got a call from somebody inviting us to their brothers wedding, my comp said he knew them from before so we agreed to stop by in the afternoon on saturday but said we couldnt stay for long. They were suppose to meet us at this gas station at noon but never showed up. at around 3 we started to et a lot of calls from them, so after our apointments we went back to meet them. when we got to the wedding, the girl my comp was suppose to knew had never seen him, but thought that i was some guy she met named david, and didnt belive me when i said i had never seen her, in fact, she thought i was flirting. She ended up feeding us and introducing me to the whole family (she left my comp back at the table because she didnt know him) including her parents who seemed way too excited to meet me, and since they only spoke swahili all i could really do was greet them and tell them i couldnt understand anything else. We were only there for like an hour but it was probably the most awkward and funny experience of my life to be led around and introduced to a bunch of people i didnt know and couldnt understand by some girl who probably thinks i am her boyfriend by the way she was talking. but it was really funny and a good story, so i hope you all enjoyed.
That was my week, i Love you all so much!!!
Elder Harris
P.S. meg, i dont know what to name your buisness and i am sure you have thought of this already but just in case you havent, you should hand out fliers at the high schools for corsages for dances, lots of money in that i am sure. anyways, i love you, bye!
P.S.S. I think Steph hates pictures even more than i do, but thanks for getting one, and wish jake fairwell and good luck for me, and if you can get his mission adress send that my way, thanks!
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