Hello Everybody!So, Dar Salaam does mean hotter then hell, that may not be the translation of the words, but thats what it means. Dar was fun though. We were on the bus all day tuesday and then tuesday night we went to a dinner at one of the members houses, and then played monopoly, i miss board games, and to all of your suprise, i didnt win. I was going to, and then one of the other elders went to bed early and gave all his property and money to the elder that would have taken second and it screwd me over. But wednesday was the actual mission tour and it was really good. i had to give a talk. aparently they sent a message to everybody telling us to prepare these two talks and then two elders would be chosen at mission tour to give them, but my comp is the one that has the phone and forgot to tell me, so i had to make it all up on the spot. I didnt do too bad i think, but it dofinitely could have been better. and then we had a great training by elder Koilleker who is in the area presidency, and he promised us that if we make sure that all of our investigators KNOW the pattern of prayer and why prayer is important then the missions baptisms will double. he also gave us some impressive statistics like that there were 6,900 baptisms in Africa last year, which is an average of 9 baptisms per missionary. a bit crazy, but apparently true. Pres Taylor also gave a good training on possitive affirmations and their inportance in missionary work. I got to see Elder Thornton there and that was fun, plus it is always fun to be with a big group of missionarys (by big i mean 12, the mission tour in kenya has the other 48 missionarys attending). Thursday we spent on the bus again and by the time we got home we were just exausted and went to bed and we had forgotten to report in. friday morning when we woke up we had 20 missed calls, about 10 from the zl's and 8 from the ap's and 2 from president. when we called them in the morning to say sorry they thought we had lost the phone on the bus or something, and then got mad at us since we still had the phone. Friday and saturday were just kinda wierd cause Dar threw off our schedule and it felt like we just spent both days running around like chickens with their heads cut off. then yesterday and today have been good and things are back to normal.
I am stoked for Jake and glad to hear that dave is working on his papers. mom, the girl in that picture is not shraderbabe, it is anna spencer. maybe shrader was there too, but that was not her. and thanks for all of the pictures! no matter what you say that was not a bad picture of you. And is Dianna mom losing weight? that pic makes it look like it, nice to see you and her and Gary. I love you all sooooooo much! i hope everything is great at home, glad everything is clean and organized, you can come do my apartment next
Love,
Elder Harris
P.S. got the valentines package from the fam, but there was a note that said mom and dads was seperate, and that one i didnt get.
P.S.S. could you send me one of those recipe books that meg typed up a few years ago, i am getting a bit tired of the same stuff over and over. and could you also send me a pair of my shorts? i only brought jeans and it is to hot to wear jeans, even if it is just on p-day.
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