Hello!
Wow, where to start? Pretty much three things describe this
week: No power, elections and the busiest week of teaching of my whole
mission. Awesome!
No power. Hah, okey well you know how power likes to
randomly go out here? Tuesday we heard a blasting noise and all of a
sudden lossed power. Went onto the roof - everyone had electricity but
us! ..this was not a normal brown out... After accepting that
something went wrong, we decided to wait and see if it would come back as
usual. Wednesday morning... still waiting... thought - What's gong to
happen to the 2 1/2 kilos of hot dogs in the freezer? - took those to the
sisters' apartment then went to the electric company. Thursday - still no
power. No ref (fridge), electric fan, etc. ... Go back and complain
again at the power company. Friday morning, none. Call them. Finally
on Friday afternoon they came to fix it. A truck load of guys pulled up
and they hopped out, set up a ladder, scaled up our house and a few minutes
later it was fixed... We had no power for four days, just for a four minute
repair job... It was fine though. Once our emergency light starting dying
on Wednesday, I got to take some more candle-lit showers for the first time in
since my second area.
Okay so elections. I kinda mentioned this last week,
right? Well elections are today. Some how we teach tons of people
that are in the running. And of course, they all want us Whites
praying they'll win. Hah just everyone... "Brother, pray for me
brad." We had this guy come up to us and give us this huge stack of
hand outs for his campaign to "give to our friends". Having
kindly explaining we're not allowed to do that, I give him in return the bunch
of pass-along cards I had stuffed in my shirt pocket. Anyways, we worked
extra hard at finding new investigators this week. Why? Hah, we're
pretty sure everyone won't be as b nice to us once the elections are over and
they're not trying to make themselves look better by talking to the two
Amerikanos. My next point:
We were so busy this week! We taught so much. We got a
bunch of lessons one day so we decided we go for the standards of excellence
for our mission, it was fun. It was nice being really busy, but in our
actual area. Usually we're busy because we're going to other areas and
doing random things for other missionaries (interviews, etc.). What made
me more excited though was that one less-active family is still coming back
strong. The baptism of their kids really seems it'll be able to
happen (:
That's it. Great week. Members helped a lot. I'm
praying I'll stay 9 months in this area - I love it here!
Love, Elder Shane Brown
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