July 8, 2013
This was crazy!!!!(In last weeks letter he wrote about building a house, I asked him for details) So for those of you who don’t know what a matted house is, it’s pretty much just thin strips of wood weaved together. Actually really strong! I took (or had people take) a lot of pictures. I need to go and print out a lot pictures soon. Finishing that house took all of Tuesday.
But before we finished that, I had an interview with my new mission president! It’s so good to have a Mission President in Liberia. We talked for about 15 minutes, mostly getting to know each other. He asked how I gained my testimony. I explained how it was such a process! It was a good conversation.
Wednesday we had an all Liberia zone conference. That was a lot of fun. I was wearing a whitish tie, it had light yellow and had a pattern to it, you just cant see it in the pictures. We were instructed to find branch builders and to use our evening time more wisely. We all need to get a little better at that.
Thursday we celebrated the 4th of July by having some soft drinks and candy. We wanted to do more but it was little too hard... i hope everyone enjoyed theirs. Friday was a normal day for us, just teaching a lot of people. A lot of them are really progressing, which makes me happy. We are starting to get a lot of success!!!
Saturday we had one young man get baptized. Salven is a young man who we met through his friend who isn’t interested anymore. He is so smart, he knows his bible stories and is loving the church. He had a relative pass away Saturday evening, so he wasn’t confirmed on Sunday, but he called to let us know ahead which was nice. I can totally see him going on a mission.
Sunday was good. We had two members invite all 4 of us over for dinner which meant we didn’t cook! Not cooking is sweet. Potato greens and beans are some of my favorite Liberian dishes. After that we waited for the phone call.
The phone call came with transfer news. BIG NEWS!!!!!!
Ha, just kidding, no one in our district got transferred,
we all stayed the exactly same. So, another 6 weeks here in the village of
thinkers! I was a little upset when we received the news, but now I’m
pretty happy about it. We all get along
really well.
Today was/is a day of firsts. First time i took a hot
shower, boiling my own water to mix with frigid rain water was really
nice! I’m also currently wearing a long sleep shirt. We told the
man who owns this internet cafe to turn off the A/C because 20 degrees celcius (68
degrees F) was a little cold. I can’t imagine how cold I am going to be
when I get home... today isn’t a very warm day here in LIB. But it’s
a sweet day.
Until next week my friends!!!
I love you all and miss you!
Elder Park
This is Africa
T.I.A.
( Got this picture from the new Liberia Monrovia Mission Blog!)
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