Monday, February 13, 2017

"Huge enormous spirit! itty bitty living space."

Karibuni Mnaendelije (If anyone knows what he is saying let me know-mom- I can't get Google translator to work)

This week we had some fun fun times.  We had Zone conference so like the Western Kenya missionaries all came to Eldoret.  It was only twenty of us from four different zones, but we had ten of them in our flat.  It was nuts, but we made it fun.

Wednesday morning
So whilst preparing for our morning run, I was tired.  Usually what happens is I unlock the door and give the keys to Elder Le, because my shorts don't have pockets, or any room for pockets.  So I unlock the door and sleepily thought I handed elder Le the keys. However I just put them back on the rack, proceed to exit the flat and lock the padlock.  Directly after I am asked "if I have the keys?".  I thought he was messing with me.... he wasn't.  So I reach through the hole in the door and move the curtain to see the keys locked inside the flat just out of reach.  After a lot of waiting around this kid comes and is like ' just climb the building ( we live on the fourth flour) so this kid climbs the building to find the balcony door locked. We ended up having to hacksaw the lock. That was fun, we were a little late for DDM though. I almost got to climb the building, maybe next time. ("No Teron just no" as quoted from Zac-Mom)

A letter came from the Stake Presidency which was sent in November that was fun! We got to meet with the mission president and our first baptism should be this Sunday!

Following that ten elders came and stayed with us, needless to say it was pretty crammed till Saturday.  There were people sleeping on the floor, on couches, and using towels as blankets. Absolutely no food in the flat, we had to go to the small shop in front of our house like five times to get stuff to cook.  On the plus side I convinced most of them to go for a run on Friday, and they were pretty willing to do so.

I got to meet Elder C he is super cool. ( He is a grandson of one of mom's nursing buddies). He stayed with us. He was on the Cross Country team his freshman year. He looked at me and said "That I looked like this one really fast dude that went to Richfield high. I asked him who and he said "I don't remember his name I just remember he won region my freshman year, he was a senior and he destroyed the course time". I told him that was my older brother; which he thought was awesome cause he thought Colter was the coolest. That was fun we talked alot about Richfield. 

I got to eat at a really nice restaurant, because my comp memorized a poem and recited it to president,  that was fun, we cook better though. 

Another fun time
So my comps mom is super awesome and sends a ton of stuff for us to play with.  Most recently she sent 'Snowballs" which were a bunch of cotton glued together or something. We got them and had a huge snowball fight in the flat with the Kitale elders. Mattresses were used as shields and one elder made a tank,  it was glorious super fun.

Anywho, have fun y'all and just remember  when a drunk man asks you if you are from America. Say you are from Zanzibar in Kiswahili and confuse the crap out of him, live life to the fullest. Elder Tucker

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