"Holy cow the mangoes here are ready!! There are mango trees everywhere in Kilungu and most of them have ripe mangoes now. On Sunday after church we were hungry and a bunch of the ward kids wanted to take us to some trees to go get some mangoes. As it turns out, mango trees are the BEST climbing trees and they are big! So we climbed up the trees 20 or 30 feet and ate mangoes out of them. These kids here are monkeys, they swing from branches and can get so high up in the trees. I have to say that was probably the coolest thing ever, sitting so high up in trees while eating mangoes. I can't even count how many we ate that day, probably 20 or 30. And we came back to our house with a bag of probably 40 or 50 mangoes that is almost finished already. They are so good!!! Kilungu rocks!
So besides boatloads of mangoes it was a bit of a slow week. The beans are also ready to harvest right now, and so everyone is out in their shambas harvesting their beans. We had a hard time seeing anyone because almost everybody has constantly been in their shambas this last week. I think we averaged about 1 appointment a day that actually went through. Every other appointment we'd get their and a kid would just tell us "He/she is at the shamba". It sounds like most people are finishing up with their beans, so this week we should have a much busier week. In fact we completely planned out our week at church on Sunday and we are going to be super busy if people aren't in their shambas! The hard thing about planning in Kilungu is that there isn't really time here if that makes sense. Most people don't have clocks or even care about time. So you can't really say "we'll come at 2 o clock", that doesn't really mean much to people. Instead there is "morning" , "afternoon", "late afternoon" and "evening". That's how we plan, we say 'We'll come in the late afternoon" haha. It's kind of funny. It also means that church never starts on time.
A fun thing that happened this week though is on Friday, the Halls wanted to go visit some of the members in Ilima, so we went with them and had Francis, a branch missionary, show us around. It was fun going around with the Halls, and we also got to find out where more of the members stay in Ilima. One of the people we saw was President Simons (branch president of Ilima branch) mother. She only spoke Kikamba, so Francis translated for us and the Halls. Afterwards she gave us some milk straight out of the cow to drink. It smelled and tasted a bit funny, so sister Hall secretly dumped her cup in to mine when I finished. She said she wanted to pay me back so she insisted on bringing me a tray of eggs from Nairobi. Which I'm pretty excited about because it's hard to find eggs here and when you do they are expensive and they sometimes have a baby chicken fetus inside. It's pretty gross.
But something not gross, we made Mexican food this week! We made refried beans, tortillas, and mexican rice! Oh man it was good! We were only missing cheese... but that would be pretty darn hard to get here.. Last p-day we built a boy scout style fire right outside our house and cooked tin-foil dinners using the tin foil we bought in Nairobi. They might just be one of the best things I've made on my mission yet. They were so good. It's also super cool that we can just have a fire 10 feet away form our front door.
Yesterday was a lot like the past week.. we had 2 appointments but both of them were not home when we got there... The second one, Duncan, showed us a faster way to get to his house last time we were there. We tried to find it yesterday using the faster way, but it ended up taking way longer because we couldn't find the right trails. We found ourselves wandering through the sugar cane fields and banana trees when I saw a stump that looked familiar so we turned there and I recognized the path. It was the path that takes us to Daniel and Prisca's house, and we know how to get to Duncan's from their house. However, we ran in to Duncan's wife on the way and she said that Duncan was not home... so we decided to give a surprise visit to Daniel and Prisca. Prisca was teaching since schools just started back up again, but we were able to chat with Daniel for a bit. He gave us some Kitau, which is mashed cassava (which I believe is called arrow root in English, but I could be wrong) and it was hard to eat because I wasn't hungry, but it was good anyways. Then after that we made our usual piki piki ride up to Kalongo where there are now 4 missionaries living.
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