Dear Family,
Happy 4th of July!!!!!! in like 5 days. Elder Zaugg and I are still trying to plan something to celebrate with. We are thinking we are going to go all out and buy some hamburger meat from the super market and grill some hamburgers. He didnt like the idea of Chicken feet with a little BBQ sauce on it, on a piece of bread. Oooh that does sound nice. even drizzle some mayonnaise on it just to make it taste a little bit sweeter. Ya if you cant tell i am quite hungry right now.
Speaking of food... well i will get to that.
Speaking of missionary work, we did a lot of that this week. It happened to be a lot of physical work that we did though. On Thursday we took a few hours to go down to the other Elders area and pump water with the hand pump for people to get our name out a little bit more. We would fill the people buckets then carry it back to there house for them. There is just nothing as rewarding as service!
On Friday we got a call from our repair man for the mission that he was coming out again to Harbel to pump water from the river and take it down to the baptismal font to fill the font for our baptism the next day. No small journey through the jungle on the back of a truck filled with water. Yup just everyday life here in the Bush in Liberia. We also did another small service project for an older woman that morning who because of the heavy rain her dirt porch was partially washed out and i twas hard for her to step over because of the length on the water erosion. So we went into the rubber bush and found some bamboo to cut and carry back to the woman's house. You should have seen the happiness on the women's face. She was just so thankful for the help that we gave to her.
We taught a recent covert named William Glay, he is such a great man who just has an excited personality. He gave a talk on the Sabbath Day and it was really great. He just gave it just like a pastor would. Actually kind of funny. We were teaching him about priesthood ordinances and blessings which he didn't know too much about. His friends joined in about half way through the lesson. and he kept telling them, you see this is why our church is true, or this is why the church is true. One man was a catholic man and had many questions and brother Glay did his very best to be a wonderful missionary. We are going back to him this week, i don't know i just like his lessons.
As it is Elder Egbu's last couple weeks we are going to be focusing on teaching recent converts about the Priesthood and the power and authority we have in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints. We noticed not many people understand about the Priesthood and it is the last thing people would think about when they are sick or get hurt or anything like that. In which for me at least it is one of the first things that come to my mind. So we are going to helping people understand that a little bit better.
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