Habari (essentially hello in swahilli) 

    Hope everyone is doing amazing, and loving the christmas season.  Here goes the two week summary. Last MTC week, super fun I learned how to play rugby. We taught some real people and had a lot of fun with the zone.  Same old schedule teach, learn, teach, read etc. etc. Had a testimony meeting on Monday then Tuesday morning I flew to Kenya.  Made it Nairobi, got through visa stuff to find out that they lost my big bag, whoo! Luckily I had all the essentials for a few days in my carry on. I stayed at the mission home had KFC (really big deal here, its one of the only Fast food chains). Then my bag came the next day, it was apparently left in Johannesburg. Met my new companion, Elder L, from Canada. We are one of two completely white companionship's.  Luckily Elder L  is really good at Swahili  We did training and then I went to immigration.  That took all day but I got my application for alien id done with a lot of trouble. Friday we got on a bus for eight hours to make it to Eldoret (running capital of Kenya, that's right be jealous).

    Finally made it, on the way I saw baboons, zebras, cows, donkeys, chickens, geese, sheep and goats. No Giraffes or Elephants or Lions, yet. They are closer to Kyulu which is the opposite side of the country. Standard mission stuff on Saturday, we had three appointment's. Only one of the appointments could understand English so I learned some basic points of the restoration. Yeah, I can understand the language alright, but I can say very little.  Pretty much Habari (News or How are you? Mzuri (good) Msungu (white person) Poa (Cool) mambo (sup) and some more but thats the basic.  So mostly I just sat there and turned pages it was fun,  I'm getting better.  Little kids love us here, they can only say, how are you in english so we hear that a lot. I'll tell you about who we are teaching when I find out, cause I know pretty much nothing. I can't understand them.

Now the food... we eat a lot of Ugali, which is maze meal and water,  tastes like absolutely nothing,  its a lot like platydough texture wise,  and is your utensils/napkin. Skumawiki, which is some weird seaweedie stuff, tastes pretty good actually.  They drink a lot of cocoa which I don't really understand, cause its like eighty degrees always, but hey when in Kenya right?

Love you all,  Book of Mormon is blue & Joseph Smith was a pamphlet.

Elder Tucker 2