Dear Family,
The week was much better than last, but still a bit slow. measles campaign continued until Saturday afternoon so that shot our appointments for this week as well. the good news is that we were able to actual see 1 apartment this week. the bad news of that is that it was at the top of our price range and a complete pile of crap. the tub had been removed in put in the living room and there was scrap wood all over the place. they said they would remove the wood and put the tub in place, but they couldn't guarantee running water, or electricity, and there was no guard or security of any kind. so basically searching for apartments is awesome.
We are teaching this super smart guy named Ruben. it is more than welcome to have somebody that actually understands what we say the first time around and that we can go somewhat deep wth him, but he knows the bible too well, to the point that he will sit and bring up contradicting scriptures to what we say and then another to what he said and then another to what that scripture said, and it is all in one unbroken chain of verbalized thought. and he has never been to any type of bible school. this is just what he can do from reading the thing on his own. The problem is that he is stubborn and doesn't want to pray, even though we have explained a thousand times that if you rely on the scriptures alone you will just be confused (like he already is and admits that part is true) but with prayer we can receive the answers that we are looking for. The other thing is that he is planning on going to Tanzania to an area where the church is not to be a teacher in 2 weeks. so we will do what we can, but i don't know how much that will be with the time we have.
We had another baptism this week. Her name is Winnie. she is a great girl that we have taught the lessons to twice, sort of. the first time we were teaching her brother and she said she wasn't interested, but she would still sit in sometimes. then when her brother was baptized she wanted to be as well. but since we had no record of which lessons she was at, we taught everything again. which was cool cause then she could actually answer questions and her brother helped her with the hard topics and to stop drinking tea and stuff. (and just so you know i never tell you about the baptisms for the zone, only other ones for my area; that was one of dads questions a few weeks ago that i never answered).
I cant believe it is October already, just yesterday i was coming to Mombasa and we were starting august. but you cant stop time. but time travel would be the best thing ever, to bad it is not possible.
I love you guys! I hope you are doing well. sorry to Spencer about the golf state thing, it is so not fair that Sam is going and not him, cause i know that Spencer is better. Crazy to think that Spencer is going to college soon, he will be there before me. never thought that would happen. especially with how much he dislikes school. Are you guys still going on that cruise? Isnt it coming up? anyways, have a great week, i love you,
Elder Harris
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