My companions name is Elder Flitton and another blessing it that he is ridiculously awesome. He is from Cali/Utah but lived in Italy for a year so he knows Italian which helped him already learn Portuguese and he has been out here for only 6 months. Currently we are the youngest companionship in the mission and here's the kicker... Elder Flitton said that President is going to make me a trainer.... probably in about two transfers. Holy crap am I scared. If that really happens Ill have been in Africa for 3 months, and I will be teaching another missionary about this place? HAhaha God works in mysterious ways I guess. But I am seriously having the time of my life.
We live in an awesome area. Surrounded by mango trees, coconut trees and other exotic stuff I don't know about. The house... isn't awesome and we run out of water and electricity regularly and we definitely take cold showers but besides that it is pretty much great! Mosquitos are definitely one of my least favorite things here. Holy the first day i was bitten 24 times. Also I had my first experience in AFrica using an outhouse. Dang am I thankful for the bathrooms in America. I literally had to sit on a sketchy cement box and wash down my product with scoops of water. And then of course no one there has toilet paper but I definitely was blessed from heaven because they somehow had stolen a copy of the Liahona from the church and tore it up so I got to use a picture of the Conference center. That was pretty comforting.
Also I GOT TO BAPTIZE SOMEONE FOR THE FIRST TIME!! I was asked to give a talk at the Baptism and that went good to. His name is Isaki (Izaki) and I had the honor of performing the baptism! The only catch was that the whole city was out of water so we had a slightly dirty small pool in front of the church that we used and we had them sit in the pool and we kneeled next to them and that was how we did it. So we also baptized another girl here by the name of Finesa and that was a really cool experience too. The work here is going so fast. Baptisms are happening extremely fast and the people are really nice. The only difficulty here is that I definitely don't speak Portuguese... haha I try but it is soo hard but it is coming... ever so slowly. Lets just hope I can learn a little bit more before I am supposed to Train...haha.
Our area is HUGE though. Like the second biggest in the whole mission and we walk everywhere. Around 14-15 miles a day and of course Elder Flitton probably could be in the Olympics for Speed walking so I have been so tired. Never thought walking could be so hard. The food here is good. I've actually had a really good time here with Elder Flitton making food. So far we literally just make different forms of either pasta or rice everyday but its all good. Plus the fruit here.... AMAZING haha i love bananas here. Who knew bananas could be better but apparently they can. Live here in Africa, its hard. Genuinely hard and I miss my home and my friends a lot every day but the work here is amazing and much needed. The people here are suffering and the message we have is the only one of its kind. I know its true and the people here know it's true as well. I love this gospel and the happiness it brings. I will continue to live in whatever conditions needed so these people can know but don't get me wrong I will be excited when I can have a nice bathroom again.
Peace out till next week
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