Week #14 - It Is Crazier Than I Imagined, But I Will Be Ok
Well
its way crazier then I thought.
We
walk everywhere or ride vans crammed with Afican’s in them.
We walk about 10ish
miles a day. It makes me so tired, but I can adjust to that. The heat is terrible but an easy adjustment.
The language still is
dang hard for me to understand. It’s
been really hard just adjusting to everything.
Especially, not being able to understand anyone. There are also tons of different dialects
here. It is hard to tell when they are
speaking portuguese or a dialect.
I have been able to understand
all the lessons. When Elder Francom
teaches I can understand and easily follow along and then he will ask me to
share my testimony or some more information and I can do it.
Really funny, but I
say tons of orarcoes (prayers) hear because everyone wants to hear a tall
American Boy speak to them. Also, I haven’t
seen a white skinned person yet besides the missionaries.
It’s
physically been pretty tough, but I’ve been buying peanut butter and just
eating it every night for protein. I’ve
been eating it like ice cream. Kind of a bummer, they don’t really have
milk down here. My go to food at home of
eating a bowl of cereal is not going to work.
The liquid leitie…milk they have here is kinda gross. It is so old
haha, but everything else has been good.
Elder Francom said they found a restaurant they have eaten at and not
been sick, so he took me there. It was
right outside the beach and we could see the whole ocean. It was really cool.
Sundays have been pretty
hard. They used to be a good day to feel
the Spirit and learn, but I haven’t felt much.
I’d love some advice about how to feel the Spirit when you have no clue
what’s going on.
I’ve had some really
cool things happen this week like a BAPTISM!!
And I got to baptism him. His name is Samwell. He is a really cool kid. It only took me 4
times to Baptize him because every time I would dunk him his feet would come
up. The baptismal font was really low so
that’s why...
We are serving in the Beira Zone
in the city of
We got to meet the Chief
of the Village - really cool.
Also we got our car stuck
and we had to push it out ourself! I got
mud all over me and we got home at about 23 (11pm).
The bugs are insane
and yes Mom I put bug spray all over me.
But they don’t seem to care!! The
bugs here are out of control. I hate bugs!!
I’ve been bitten by about every bug you can name. haha.
The smell is terrible. I’ve been taking dads advice and bringing deodorant
with me to put under my my nose, really...
Thanks so much for the
Chocolate Santa advent calendar (I am grateful I didn't open and eat this in Florida). It makes my day when I come home
and eat a piece of chocolate. There is no
clean water here so I’ve been drinking lots of Fanta and Coke. I try not to drink Coke, but sometimes that’s
all people have. We have filtered water where we stay, but we are not there very much. It tastes good though.
I really miss Utah and
there are so many things I miss about America.
But, I’ve been here a week so I’ll be fine. The language will come. That’s all that’s really bothering me. When that gets better I’m going to love
everything…
Really cool thing that
happened this week. I gave Elder Cox a
blessing in Portuguese and English. He became really sick and that was really
cool. Sickness is terrible right now, everyone is getting sick.. a
missionary had a emergency surgery in Nampula and almost died this week. But I’m not sick yet. I’m afraid it’ll come to me soon.
I get tired really
fast here. That’s also hard, but my
compenhiro (companion) told me that it is fine.
That the mission is like a marathon and we gotta pace ourself.
The people here are so
open about everything. Its awesome, they
really want the gospel in their life. But its weird that I haven’t seen a Caucasian
person anywhere. It is insane.
The last 3 days we
have done tons of work, been on the streets all day from 10 to 20 military
time and taught about 7 lessons a day.
Very hard. I don’t
com amor,
Elder Rees
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