Hey Family!
This week was a bit slower then the other weeks since we were in the office the whole week but it was still pretty busy. we had to furnish a new flat for a new area here in nairobi. We also had to pick somebody up from the airport that came home early because his father died and he is the oldest and in his culture he becomes the legal owner of everything so if he didn't come home the govt would take everything and his mom would be left with nothing. its kinda bogus. but he is hoping to be able to go back and finish his mission after two weeks or so when he can claim the fathers stuff and then leave it to his mom to "look after." sometimes the cultures here make no sense, and sometimes it makes even less sense for the govt to honor each and every culture (about 40 main ones and the 120 total with the subdivisions of those main ones) when they are so different. you could probably get away with murder if you claim to be from the right tribe.
The rest of our week we spent creating statical reports and putting baptismal records into the computer and running errands for President Taylor and having long meetings with President about things we will need to let the new mission president know. those meetings are long. like 2-3 hours long on average. and most of it is President Taylor talking so it gets kinda boring. the only bad part about it is that we will probably have to have all of the meetings again but this time we will be talking and explaining the history as to why we do things the way we do things.
I miss the rodeo. i had forgotten about it till i read the blog today, but that made me miss it. and Spencer, sweet haircut!!! im thinking of asking president Taylor if i can do mine that way.the pool has come super far. I'm surprised at how fast it is coming. when mom told me on mothers day they were going to build a pool i thought it wasnt going to be ready till next year or maybe end of summer at the soonest, but i was wrong. and i am glad i was wrong.
we got the conference ensigns finally and as much as i miss watching conference like normal, i do feel that i get a lot more out of reading conference. Most of the talks are excellent. however some of the talks that the women give, and also the one about the new duty to god program, not my favorite. the duty to god one i will admit that i just didn't care because i felt it didn't apply to me, but these women need to learn how to talk to a general audience better cause i always feel like they are talking to little girls. I have only read through the sunday morning and part of priesthood sessions so far though and the lady's talk was titled something something handmaids something, so maybe i should have expected it to be geared toward women. Our path of Duty was an especially good one i thought. I especially like where it qouted Eccl. 12:13 "fear God, and keep his comandments for this is the WHOLE duty of man." i think we often complicate our duty to our heavenly father. but we shouldnt. and we just have to keep the comandmens and to respect and be gratefull to (fear) Him.
anyways, i have to go. but i love you all and i hope you have a great week!
Love
Elder Harris
1 comment:
The women's talks are one of my beefs too but honestly I'm pretty sure it's not that they need "to learn" to give better talks, it's that they are not allowed. Hopefully in the future things will get better.
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