6-7-2010

But anyways as for me last week, was okay not great but okay. Im gonna make this week good. In fact this week is anna's baptsim. Which im very excited for. And im hoping to see some cool less actives and bring them back to church but we will see. So ya did you get my pics of the ferry or the jungle? cause they are both awesome. Our area covers a place called gogalamboto and its all jungle. Its pretty sweet, we teach a guy named thomas that lives there. And i suprise myself that i can get through that place cause some areas are pretty sketchy. Like im pretty sure that a lion might come out of now where or a big snake. Esh its cool though i never thought in my life that i would be in a area like that. So i enjoy it. And i can now say that i've seen the atlantic ocen, the pacific, and the Indian ocean. Pretty cool, the indian ocean is suppose to be warm, but sadly i wont probably every find out. So ya its hard to belive now that this transfer is already halfway over. I cant belive it, its going by way to quick. Oh buy ya i gotta tell you about last friday, we were in a dollaz coming home and the police pulled over the dollaz. And he started to yell at the driver and then the conductor. And then he came on the bus and started to yell at the people on the bus, pretty crazy. It turns out that, the dollaz we were on was not suppose to be on that road. It was suppose to be going to a different place, but they choose to take an alternative route and pick up some people. And esh the policeman was mad, and was going to kick everyone off the bus. So what did the conductor do, he just gave him some money and the cop took it and walked away. That simple. But ya corruption here is extremely bad. So ya i thought you might like that story
So summer huh? well its been hotter here then the summer there and its winter. Im scared to think about what real summer is like And i hope Woody and JR wont be forever single. Esh if they really want to get married, all they have to do is come here and say i want to bring a girl back with me to america. And immedialy they will have swarms of girls around them. Esh its bad, the girls here love americans. And ya i dont have Cindi's email. But you can just tell her that i've been told by many here that im no longer a mizungu, im a tanzanian. Yep thats right im black.. So ya its hard to belive that arron is at 5 months. Crazy, and im approching quickly four months. Next transfer ill be out 6 months, and gosh its going by way to quick. But ya this past week was an okay week. Im hoping that this week will be better. But ya we finally saw one of my favorite investigators this week, Raymond. He has been busy with college exams. But i love teaching him cause he usually ends up teaching us something. That guy is awesome. He is a missionary himself. he asks us for pamphlets and book of mormons, so he can give to his friends. Esh its amamzing. All we need now is for him to come to church. He comes every now and then, but i want him to come every week. But esh that guy is powerful. And a quoteable line from him is what he ask me everytime i see him and that is "So tell me Jack" ha im always like tell you what. and he is like just tell me. But ya also this week thanks to my new friend Onesmus, i was taught about tribal jokes. Tribal jokes are just mean pranks that a person from one tribe does to another. Like he was giving me examples of how one can take a tv of a guy from another tribe and he cant do anything to stop him. But he can come to his home and take some things from him also. And when someone in tribe dies, another tribe will come and laugh at the mourners. Pretty messed up. But as a tribal joke to me and elder mkhabela. he made us eat ALOT of rice. like my comp had 4 big bowls of rice. And i had 3 and a half. But esh way to much rice. He just kept adding more and more. Until it was all gone. And for himself he only had 1 bowl of rice. So ya after we finished, me and my comp were dying. Like i didnt want to move at all. i just wanted to sit there until it stopped hurting. So ya now im scared about what he might do this week, but we will see. me i now eat things which i never ate back home. Like tomatos, onions, peppers, and some weird vegetable stuff down here. But ya its good. Have you ever had papia fruit? i think thats how you spell it. Mama mwingira made it for me last friday and it was really good. I like it a lot So ya thats pretty much it for this week. I hope that this week will be good for you. As for me im gonna make this week good. Sawa well as for me im going to go, so kwaheri eh? i love you and miss you.

-Elder Jackson aka Jack