There is something seriously wrong with that boy-Some random mom on the street.

What's up guys?  How is life going?  I am doing great thanks for asking, yes still in Kenya, yes it is still hot, no no no lions yet, but one day...

STORIES!

Number 1: conversation between God and an Angel...

"Hey look, Elder Tucker is actually preparing for the rain, good for him."

"Nope, make it dry, but look like it will rain all day, in fact all week"

" Isn't that kinda rude"

"Yeah but it is hilarious."

So as you remember last week we were rained out the whole week, every day was wet.  Well iIdecided to smart up and get an umbrella, and walk with it.  So I have this nice cane umbrella, that I walked around with all fetching week, and not one flipping drop of rain has hit the ground; until yesterday, when I decided to leave my umbrella at home, THEN IT FLIPPING RAINED! I swear Heavenly Father is just trying to mess with me.

Number 2: subject

Today we went on some adventures, to a small cascading waterfall, I walked around in a river for a while, and tried to catch a crab. Then we walked through the forest for an hour, to find a restaurant that is only closed ON MONDAY.  but it was worth it.  Well anyway on the way through the forest, my sandals were kinda hurting, and one of the other elders had broken his sandals, sooo I did a Christlike thing and gave him mine, and have been barefoot most of the day.  I told him just to bring them to our district meeting.  Well I forgot that I needed to go to the cyber.  I have been walking through Eldoret barefoot, and this mom said this as I walked by.  I guess only Kenyans are allowed to be barefoot in Kenya. If a white guy does it, he's nutz.  

Welp I hope you have a nice week, let me know how things are. Elder Tucker

"The bubbles make my feet feel good" -Elder Nkosi

Lets see, well this week is a new area featuring new characters, and new-ish places.

As I said last week I am back in Eldoret next to the area I was trained in.  I am at a place called Sosiani, which is mostly the town part of Eldoret.  It is fun, but here are some of the highlights from the week.

Story 1: Wet Socks

I managed to arrive in Eldoret just in time for the peaks of rainy season,  Ever since I stepped off of the bus, I have not had dry socks.  One of the days we were walking back from a DA and I was with elder Nkosi, who is in training.  (he is one of the other elders that lives with me) he just turns and said the above statement to me.  This was followed by me dropping my Samosa (its like a triangle eggroll) on the ground and my juice and just laughing my head off.  It was a great moment.  This Elder is funny.

Story 2: DOORBELLS! *fail*

In my new flats, we have three sets of missionaries.  I found a very nice way of entertaining myself and making sure the other missionaries are in check.  So while I was running stairs one of the foggy mornings, I decided I would doorbell ditch all of the missionaries in our compound.  Well after doing this about three or four times, and not seeing any reaction I was extremely upset with the results!  Well turns out I was running right when the Kenyan power guys were working on some power lines.  In the end I just looked like some freaked out white guy in shorts, running from house to house pushing buttons that do nothing.  Turns out the lord does protect his missionaries from troublemakers like me.

Anywho, I will share some pictures in a little bit from the last couple weeks as promised, for some info my comp is named Elder Mukengela and he is from DRC.  He is awesome.

Signing off,

Elder Tucker

"But we already found you a house"- Sister Mxxx

So this was week six, week six means transfers.  This also meant that my time in Naivasha/Nakuru has come to an end. I have really loved this area and the people, and all the adventures I have had.  To be completely honest I actually wasn't thinking I was going to be able to email today.  But looks like you guys have to suffer through another one of my emails. Lets hear some stories

#1:"Elder DON'T DO IT!!" - Elder Munyaradzi

Well so we had another baptism in Nakuru, which meant another baptism in a lap pool.  This time I was chosen to perform the baptism.  It was really spiritual, super exciting for Our new member.   As well I got a chance to do a couple strokes of breaststroke to the wall of the pool, so that was fun.  My companion saw my plan beforehand so after Brother Bxxxx was out of the water he shouted this at me, it was funny.  

#2:SURPRISE!

I have been in this area for a while so I was kinda expecting to leave.  But the members didn't expect that, hence the subject. Sincse we work two areas and we needed to pack up my stuff from two houses, on the way we did some drop in good-bye appointments.  Elder Munyaradzi  and I being jokesters we decided to tell the family, that he was leaving. The family laughed about it for a while, then we told them the real news, and they thought we were joking.  The mom kept saying I am supposed to finish my mission here, it was a good night.

I am being transferred back to Eldoret an area over from where I started my mission. I hope you guys have some fun.  As i said before I wasn't planning on emailing today. So I don't have my camera on me, so next week I will send a ton of pictures.  

Love 

Elder Tucker 2

Extremely Rare Double Spiritual Letter

This week has been really wet, lots and lots of rain.  I always seem to forget my jacket when I need it the most, but when I wear it, it is hot as Hades.  Turns out God does like to mess with people. Okay guys, I know that this is weird behavior for me, but I literally had the most awesome thing happen this week.

Wxxxxxx

So first off everyone rewind over a year ago when I was serving in Eldoret.  One of our neighbors drove a super sick Subaru outback with red racing stripes.  And I always wanted to talk to him to tell him that he had a super sick car.  But I never got to cause he was always driving it and blasting music. He never really seemed liked someone who would be interested in our church. Well one day he called me and Elder Le Cheminant over cause he said he wanted a book.  We gave him one and told him church was on Sunday, and he was welcome.  We kinda thought that would be the end but then HE SHOWED UP!  So after kinda freaking out for a little bit, we sat with him showed him how to read the hymn book and sing and stuff, met with him, the whole missionary stuff.  We taught his family a couple times then I got transferred. 

Fast forward about nine months when I am sitting in DD Meeting and his name comes up for some Elders in Nairobi.  So I asked afterwards for a little bit more background.  Turns out he lost everything, his family, his car, his house, and then went to Nairobi and was hustling for work.  Then he found the church again and started taking the lessons again.  Then one night he was kicked out of the house he was staying at and went to a bar for some free water. Got some help now is back on his feet and GOT BAPTIZEDI! He just got the priesthood last week. 

Now you are wondering why I would be telling you all this.  So turns out Wxxxxxx never forgot that book from me and Le Cheminant.  I was on exchanges in Nairobi and on our way to visit him, he found us on the road, and lit up and came over shouting ELDER TUCKER!!!!!! ELDER TUCKER YOU'RE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  He gave me a nice hand shake bro. hug and then thanked me for that small gesture of giving him a book, and helping him get his life back with the lord.  He told me all that happened and all he had been through, and he said, that he knew that he just had so much love and respect for me and Elder Le Cheminant that he had to stay true to us, and finish what he started.  It was a truly tender moment for me to know that even though I didn't really do anything other than give out a book, and it changed this guys life forever!  It was so sweet.  I love that guy, he is so sick. 

Some lessons from Wxxxxxx, is 1)don't judge to quick and 2)plant all the seeds you can, you will never know the harvest time. 

HE GOT BACK WITH HIS WIFE AND HIS FAMILY!!! His wife will probably be baptized as well!

Welp that is it from me, have a great week

Elder Tucker

Insert funny quote which escapes my mind.

I am going to be one hundred percent honest with you guys.  The majority of this week was spent travelling and sitting in zone conference and waiting for interviews.  I only did missionary work Friday and Saturday. I don't have much funny stuff to report.  On a super good note though we had a confirmation in one of my branches!  And we got three more people on date, so that was flipping awesome.  Since I don't have many many stories today I thought I would try to teach something spiritual (I know crazy right).

I just thought I would share something that I found pretty incredible.  This week I got to be someone's answer, and that was awesome!  In the Nakuru group we don't have many people, and it is kinda chaotic.  So sometimes us as the missionaries can get called to give a talk in sacrament minute of.  Literally no notice just on the pulpit say that elder so and so will be speaking.  Well that happened this week to me.  And while I was walking up to front of the room trying to come up with a ten minute talk on the spot, i just decided to do what the scriptures say.  So I walked up there with no plan and literally just opened my mouth. after a few seconds of "UHHHHH"  and almost swallowing a fly, words finally started to flow.  I know I mentioned something about prayer, and that is about it. I have no clue where any of the talk came from nor do I remember the great majority of it.  I do however remember what happened after church.  A certain sister came up to me and told me about some of the problems that have been going down at her place.  She said that the talk I gave was directly an answer from god to her.  It gave her faith and hope to move forward.  This was a testimony builder to me that god does answer prayers, and in complete honesty it is the spirit that does all the teaching.  As well I learned more fully that the lord is completely honest when it comes to his promises. 

(For the record to those of you who feel like you want to do this next time you are asked to give a talk, it goes a lot smoother if you prepare.  This is used in emergencies. not for every talk) 

Welp that is about it, have a great week

Elder Tucker 

ARTS AND CRAFTS

So this week I spent a lot of my down time making random stuff.  Don't really know why I just got really excited to make stuff. This email is the list of stuff I made.

1: Rainbow bead lion necklace.

I  have this ebony lion necklace that  got from some Masai ladies that I love to wear.  Well somehow this week it broke.  So after moping for a second, I gathered up all the beads that I could find and fixed it.  The only problem is the beads weren't all there, so I had to improvise.  Luckily I still had my makeshift hacky sack I made a few months back during lockdown days.  I stole some beads from that and finished it out, it looks a little funky but it gets the job done.  

2.  A bag true to my heritage

I got a package on Sunday. In this package was the most useful tool in all of existence... the one... the only.... DUCK TAPE!!!!!!!!!!  I was super excited!  So my proselyting bag I have sewn up like eighteen times but it keeps ripping in different places, and it isn't water proof.  Sometimes my books get ruined if it is super rainy, so I decided I was going to fix that.  I had my mother send me some lime green duck tape, and this morning I made myself a duck tape proselyting bag, with some flattened bottle caps as buttons.  I am really proud of this bag, it totally made my week.  I will send a picture.

I made some other stuff but they were kind of a failure, and other just little trinkets

out of papers and wires and crap to put on my desk and play with when I am bored but yeah, it was a fun time. 

Love you guys

Elder Tucker

Nectar of the Gods, a pool baptism and elephants.

Sup, I don't have much of and intro so... STORIES!

1. "I am going to get high off of sniffing this aluminum can"-me

This week was great for a few reasons, one of them being after literally a year and a half of searching. I finally found it...ROOT BEER!!!!!!!!!! A&W!!!!!!!!!!! STRAIGHT FROM THE STATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I drank seven of them and almost cried at my first sip.  Then after every can would smell them to still get some sensation of this beautiful beautiful creation, straight from heaven.  We also bought some ice cream to make some floats and it was so amazing! Literally best thing I have had in over a year.  I can't wait till I get some Brigham's Brew  Root Beer again.

2. "No jack, no cannon balls"

We finally had a baptism in our area Nakuru.  It has been over a year and our building fell down a few months ago.  Causing us to be shifting from a hotel and some members houses. Which caused attendance to severely drop. However the work of the Lord will progress. We finally had a baptism, and we got to do it in a swimming pool. I thought that was pretty sick, then we had the service under a palm tree.  Not something you get to do everyday.

3. "AHH! IT FARTED ON ME!!!" - Sister Bamu

Today for p day, we went to the elephant orphanage.  Turns out baby orphaned elephants are really gassy and love to pick on sisters haha.  They were super cute.  They would run up to the bottles and just down like three gallons of milk, then just play around.  I tried to get an elephant hair so I could hang out with the cool gorillas. (Refrence to Disney's Tarzan)  but I sadly failed, turns out those suckers are pretty tough to get.  But I did get too pet an elephant, and also I got to pet and feed a giraffe named Kiko.  Cool little dude.

Yeah good week, here are some pics since it has been forever​. We weren't able to get the pictures to load. We have to get permission it says. Working on this. 

Interesting/Funny side note from Mom.  Teron's 1st cousin is also on a mission he has been out 1 yr and a 1/2.  His weekly letter also included a description of happiness. This week was the first time he has been able to taste Root Beer since he entered the mission field in South Korea! It ws a Root Beer kinda week.