July 14, 2014

Dear Family,

Well just like I said I am outta Harbel, far far away! But thankfully I am not living the city life too much cause they sent me out to KAKATA. Kak city baby!!! So literally I will never see most of the missionaries in this mission ever again. Saddd but I am excited to be out here in the bush so I thought. To be honest Kakata is like little Monrovia. Everything moves very quickly out here. There is more business being done and bikes transporting people so it does quite have that bush feel like harbel but it is still pretty nice. Our apartment is Celestial because we don’t worry about turning on our generator but another person does it. We also have…..drum roll please…… working showers!!!!!!! I have taken two so far and that feel so good but to be honest I almost like buckets then you can control pressure to one section of your body.

Elder Egbu is now to the mission office preparing for his departure home. Saddd but good that he went home. We worked really hard this last week trying to prepare our people to not be taught by missionaries for the next couple of months.

I got to spend sacrament meeting in Harbel to give a talk on service and magnifying your calling, and then we loaded the truck and headed towards Kakata. This was the most scenic drive I have been on for a long long time. We were driving through firestone rubber trees on a dirt road and the trees cover the road and made like this canopy cover!! It was just beautiful.  We got there just in time to see the ending part of Kakata’s branch. I was just trying to get to know some people as one of the other Elders , Elder Marondera from Zimbabwe, was just taking photos cause he was going home.

My new companion is Elder Khasiahi from Kenya! He is just a sweet funny guy who is ready to work. He only arrived in Kakata 3 weeks before I did so we are both going to be learning the area! We sat down with the branch president and he invited us to eat some Fufu and pepper soup. It tasted pretty good, but the thing with Liberians is they say they can sleep if they don’t eat rice in the day. So he brought a bowl of rice and red oil as well.  We then discussed about what we could do as missionaries to be able to help this branch grow! He gave us some few suggestions and told us an interesting story. He himself is one of the most Christ-like men I have ever met. He just wants to always help people in every way he can. But he says he wasn’t always like that. He use to Drink, he says no small drinker as well. Couldn’t hold any job and people could not trust him with anything because he would go and pawn it off for drink money. But his friend introduced him to the church and he decided to change his life around. Now he is the man he is today. His house is very very nice, he works at the bank, and his family is just a Latter-day saint kind of family.

Well I am just happy to be out here in Kakata. The best place to sprint to the finish! Thank you for constantly praying for me and helping me in every way.

By the way, remember the Kenyans’ at the Noorda’s house who killed I think a goat and we had a feast! Ya, that has crossed my mind with my companion being from Kenya. Maybe we are lining up a Goat or a pig to do it with. I am pretty excited, I will try to send pictures if we do it. Maybe my birthday or something!

Thank you Kaden cuz for the letter. Mission will be the best two years of your life. Always live worthily for that call one day to come out on a mission! You will love every minute of it! just like i have.

Well that is all for this week folks, tune in next week when I actually teach people in Kak City!

Love,

Elder Skouson