Familia Yangu,
so family is the same in swahili and spanish, and yangu means mine/my. It was good to hear that things are starting to go fast for you mom, but i believe those trial periods in the scriptures were 40 days, not 40 weeks. i never would ave known it was 40 weeks though. that makes it sound like a lot longer than its been though. Anyways, i got transfered to Mombasa. its a huge city on the east coast of Kenya. This place is awesome. the only bad part is the bus ride, and i have to make that bus ride 3 or four times this transfer. The first time was to get here (6 hours from Arusha to Nairobi on the worst dirt road in the world, then 8 hours from nairobi to here, but the road here is good, and we got to see some elephants out the window which was pretty cool) and then tomorow we will be traveling back to Nairobi for mission tour, and then later i will have to go to Chyulu for exchanges, and then there is also a zone leaders meeting at the end of the month. So i think i will only actually be in my area for like 4 of the 6 weeks in the transfer.
You were right about saturday though mom. thursday and friday i was traveling here so saturday was my first day in the area. We had to leave the flat without having a comp study to make it to our apointments on time, and we quite literally had a different apointment every hour up till nine, then had our comp study when we got back that night. I have never had a day that full before. i did two baptismal interviews,,normally i wouldnt be able to since they were for my area, but because it was my first day and i hadnt met them before it was aproved. i love doing baptismal interviews, its always so cool to see jut how excited they are to be baptized and to make those covenants and to become members of the church. They were both baptized yesterday. Then sunday morning made me even more happy because i was thinking that My new comp Elder Hansen had just stacked all the investigators on saturday since he was working in the other elders area while he was waiting for me to come, but then we went to go teach the new investigators and recent converts class during sunday school time and the class had over 20 people in it, and only 3 were recent converts. the rest were investigators. so we had 18 investigators at church. So we are going to be super busy here. I also really enjoy the ood here in Mombasa. From what i have heard they almost always make chapattis for dinner, which is one of my favorite things here. So yea, i am pretty stoked for my time here in Mombasa.
Elder Hansen is from Idaho, from Rexburg actually. He is a super humble guy. i have never heard anybody say anything bad about him, which is a bit wierd cause everybody in this mission gets bad mouthed. Either they tell you about all the bad things they do or they make fun of the guy for being obedient. But everybody likes him too much to make fun of him for being obedient. I was very suprised to get a mzungu(white) companion, but i am super happy to be with him! When i first came out President Taylor told us not to expect to serve with other americans. but he doesnt care about that anymore i guess because between these last two transfers there have been tons of white companionships. Both of the AP's are white now and it created an uproar. i know it might sound wierd but many of the blacks are racist and dont like whites becuase "they (the whites) think that they are better than us just because of our skin color" its quite rediculous actually, especially since we are in Africa and the dominant color here is black, and all the government leaders are black and all the companies are owned by blacks (or indians). but they will realize their rediculousness someday.
So i lied earlier, the bus ride isnt the only bad part. the other bad part is the humidty and heat. i dont like either of those, and it is super hot and humid here. when we were coming in tothe city the gage on the bus said it was 30 degrees celcius and 85% humidity, and this is the cold season, it starts ot warm up next month and the hot time is decemberish, which i will most likely be here for. not excited. but everything else here is great, i really couldnt have goten a better transfer.
anyways, i got to go. i love you guys! have a great week!
Love,
Josh
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