Letter from Josh on his NEW PDAY 29 May 2010

dear family,

the kilungu hills were fun. its the type of place that people might actually think of when they first think of Kenya, and also the type of place that Mom is glad i am not living in. It is super beautiful though. they call them hills but its really more of mountains and they are green everywhere with sugar cane and banana trees and that kind of stuff everywhere. it amazes me how many people live there. every hill is covered with houses and terraced gardens and then at the top is some sort of "town" but would be more appropriately called a market. i took a bunch of pictures and will send them soon, the card i am using is almost full.
we are super busy here though. today is suppose to be our p-day but we spent the whole morning in Kilungu getting them running water, which we are not even sure if it will work. but they have plenty of water to hold them through monday when we go back. and as soon as we finish here we have to go buy the stuff they they still need so that we can leave early enough on monday morning. tomorow is our only really free day but we still have to plan the trainings for the zone conferences and i have to learn to drive a stick and there are a few things that we need to run to dome of the missionaries here in Nairobi. then monday back to Kilungu and tuesday is zone conference for upper-hill zone then wednesday they will orient me on the office work then thursday we go to eldoret, a city in western kenya. friday is the zone conference for eldoret and saturday and sunday we do exchanges with them. i dont think i will be able to write next saturday because of that but i will try to on that next monday. i dont know what the plan is for then if there is one yet so we will see.
there are some nice perks to being in here, for example we have a washing machine. i think i am in love with it. and we also get fed every now and then when there is some sort of training in the office and they order lunch for everyone. so this week i ate pretty good. we had dinner at presidents with the new missionaries and wednesday night and then thursday they ordered pizza after the orientation of the new missionaries. and sister Nevin, who works in the office, brought in chocolate chip cookies that were probably the best i have ever had, but that opinion could be biased based on the fact that they are the only ones i have had in the last year and a half.
its wierd for me that spencer is graduated, i swear he is still the sixteen year old that i left. he looks a lot like Preston to me now though. sorry about the guy coming in to the house. just remember that those guys dont want trouble, and that means they dont want to hurt you, they have a flight not fight attitude. because if they fight they are much more likely to be caught and then there are much more serious penalties. and i dont think he will come back after being seen.
anyways, i love you!!!! i hope you have a great week. and i believe this is the week greg gets home, its either this one or next anyways, but give him a big hug from me and this e-mail address so that i can start communicating to him that way.

love,
Elder Harris