Week
44 – 3/16/2014 T3
Hi
guys,
Those
pictures that you sent me of the family get-together are great; it looks like
it was tons of fun. Seeing the pictures and hearing about the food that dad
cooked on the grill makes me miss home so much! But not in a bad way, I'm happy
to be here of course. But there really is no place like home. Speaking of
which, when I talk to you guys in two months for Mother's day, I will have 1
year on the mission! Time always flies by, but I've never seen it fly by faster
than on the mission.
Things
here are going well. That's nice that President Kretly sent that email to you
guys telling you about my calling as trainer. I gave you some wrong information last week
about my new companion; I think it was a miscommunication thing or
whatever. But here is the correct information: my new companion is a
Mozambican, from Beira. His name is Elder Alfredo. He started his mission in
December, went to the Brazil MTC, spent a couple months in the Sao Paulo
mission, and is now back here to serve. His assigned mission is the Angola
Luanda mission. So he will only be here in Mozambique until he gets his visa to
Angola, which he will most likely get next month. So he will only be my
companion for this transfer. He's a nice guy. I will be doing the training
program for new missionaries with him this transfer. We will both be helping
each other out, me helping him with missionary work, he helping me perfect my
Portuguese. He is my first non-English speaking companion.
It's
a lot different now, talking Portuguese most of the day, I really like that.
Our district now has 4 native Portuguese speakers: Elder Alfredo, Elder Ndala
(Angola), Elder Matezo (also from Beira), and Elder Barroso (Brazil). The only
Americans are me and Elder Dustin, a new missionary. He, just like me, went to
the U of U and lived in the honors students housing also. So I probably saw him
before the mission, even though I don't remember. Anyway, my companion didn't
arrive from Brazil until Wednesday night, and then had to stay at the mission
office to take care of immigration stuff. So he didn't arrive at our house
until Thursday night. In the meantime while I was waiting, I tripled up with
Elder Barroso and Elder Dustin. It was nice walking with them and meeting their
investigators.
Since
me and Elder Alfredo only had Friday-Sunday this week in our area, we didn't
get a lot done, but it was still a good week. We had 2 families come to church
yesterday. They are the families that are making the most progress right now
and we are going to try to help them get married and baptized next month. We
are also teaching other families that have potential to be baptized either next
month or in May. The work in this area continues to be blessed. This is my 4th
transfer here, so it's very possible I'll get transferred out next month, so
I'm enjoying the time I still have here to help these families.
The
weather has been fine. Once again we got a nice soaking on Wednesday. As we
were walking home the power went out in the neighborhood so the only light we
had was the lightning, and there was a ton of it! It was a pretty cool storm.
But since Wednesday, it hasn't rained again. And I hope it stays that way for
the next little while. Mom, to answer
your questions: Yes the rain boots are rubber, like fishing boots. We have a
washer, no dryer. Each elder has his day to do laundry during the week, my day
is Tuesday.
I’m
glad Jacob always is hanging out with his friends. That's nice that he always
has someone his age to spend time with. I'm sure he had fun at the family
reunion as well. Why didn't you set aside any of the food to save for me? Haha.
Anyway,
I'm so glad to hear that you guys are happy and spending time together as a
family. Even though work can be draining, it's nice to let go of all that and
spend time together, that is what's most important.
I love you all very much
and pray for you guys every night and every morning. I hope you have another
great week!!
Love,
Josh
A short video from one of the weddings
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