hey mom

well zone conference was nice. they got pizza for lunch because of the man who wrote this email hah. but it was about putting on the full armor of God. so that was pretty nice. we got coins from the mission president which had like the full armor on it. thats was pretty kool. well the new mission president will be pres. hicken or something like that. he was a police chief in cali for like 30 years or something. so i think he will be strict which will be good for this mission ha.

 

well nakuru is doing really well. they gave us all of nakuru instead of two areas so we have a lot of work which im happy about because i would like to die working hard. well nancy is progressing again so thats good but paul hasnt come yet so hes pretty much lied to us for awhile now. well we have a few baptisms set for my last saturday on mission so im pretty happy about that. my other people i have baptized, most of them are doing really well but some arent but i communicate with some of them every now and then.  but my other comp, elder rako for short is alright. he is a little quiet but he is good. ya elder rama was awesome. easily my favorite comp in my entire mission. wow i didnt know that pococks mom died. ya i know he is still here but that would be super hard. i dont think i could stay. well i havent gotten your package yet but i think i will get it soon.... hopefully hah.

we have had a bunch of lessons this week since we have to combine both the areas here. i think its been the most busy that i have ever been on my entire mission. anyways, we have a guy we are teaching who owns a college so he is kinda big people but he is super humble and stuff. he is going to be baptized on the 20th and hopefully his family too. he is super sweet. and he has to come from a pretty far place. i think that he will be a branch president one day ha. but then we have nancy who has had a terrible life but she is going to be baptized the same day and she even payed her tithing this week which was sweet. then we have susan who was taught by people in eldoret. so she is good and then we have a few other people  so this should be a good few weeks. but we have been really broke this week just cause it is the end of the month but we just got money again so i can now afford food hah.

well thats it pretty much for me. but i love you guys and i hope you are having a good week.

love elder maxwell

hey mom

well it seems that jay hasnt really grown up very much yet.... but i think that instead of you looking at yourself. you should ask him "how would you judge yourself with the actions that you do?or how would you look on someone who is doing the same things you are??  cause thats what God is going to do..." or in other words made him be accountable for the things that he does. like either he is going to learn or he wont but one day he will but lets just hope he does before its too late. anyways, im glad that sammy had a good time at camp. and had a good birthday party. i hope that you told her happy birthday for me. well ive never heard of those people but i might soon maybe. well i think i might be scared of white people a little when i get there. cause i see black people every day. and when i do see white people i feel weird like what are these wazungu doing here haha. well i think you should just put me in a room where you think i will be best at. well people havent really been coming to church for us but we dont really have anyone coming regularly which kinda sucks. no  i didnt see pocock. and zone conference was sweet. i met a ton of people that ive never met before. i know like no one in this mission anymore but i guess it doesnt really matter anyways since ill be leaving soon.

anyways, this week was nice.  nairobi was great. we ate a ton of pizza!! so good. i miss pizza.... i miss awesome food. it was nice to have zone conference too since we havent had it since like january. it was the mission presidnets last zone conference too. every zone had to sing and as you could have guessed we were the worst haha. ya i was like the most musically inclined and thats really saying something cause i suck ha. zone conference took up most of the week so we were able to only do a little bit of work but we found a new part of our area that we didnt know about. so we will be working there more now soon. so we got transfer news!!! ................................................. so elder shutt is leaving to nairobi and my comp is going to TZ! lucky man. sanders is staying in the zone so thats sweet elder balls is getting a guy for madagascar , elder rokotomalala and me im getting elder balls and elder roko (nickname) so im dying in nax vegas!! so im pretty happy about that. it will be sweet. I love nakuru. its great. anyways, now i will have more time to get some sweet stuff and sanders and i are already planning to go to nakuru natl park. so thats pretty much my week.

hey i have a question. what size shoe do you wear and also sami? there are some sweet shoes i can get.

but i think that it love ya guys!!

Dear Family of Elder Maurice Marcel Maxwell,

Attached is a letter from President Broadbent and a flight itinerary for Elder Maxwell who will be leaving the Kenya Nairobi Mission on 24 July 2013.  We hope this will help you as you plan for his homecoming.  We are going to miss Elder Maxwell!

Sister Olsen

Mission Secretary

hey mom

 

things are going well here. we have some good investigators. one named nancy. she is an older lady who has been through a lot of stuff in her life. im surprised she is still alive cause of all that stuff. she was burned alive covering 75% of her body and has gone through a bomb blast. and she is pretty much normal besides things like burn marks. anyways, she is awesome. she even called us last night to see if we needed help with like money and stuff cause she still doesnt really understand how we survive here without getting paid. then paul hasnt come to church and we havent been able to see him for awhile its really making me mad because he was progressing so well. but we are still working with him. thats pretty much it for missionary work. we are still finding, looking, looking!  anyways, it looks like bro bulloch hooked you up at wet n wild! elder balls got a new game called bang. its like a mexican game and its awesome. i think im going to have russ and kori buy it hah. well thats pretty much it from me. hope you have a good week. love ya

elder maxwell

hey mom,

i will continue to use the B of A card until it says that i cant, and then i will use the chase card. but my question is when did you learn the word shida??? i think you used the wrong form of plural for the word too haha. jk.  i still have the same comp. elder omara. but it doesnt actually seem that i have had him for too long but i think that is because we get along alright and there is four of us in one house so its ok. oh and mom.... really? decorate? no, we don't decorate the church. we just clean and set up chairs hah.

tracting is really crappy here. we have better opportunities just street contacting cause we can talk to more people in less amount of time. usually we just get peoples housegirls (like maids). anyways paul is doing alright. he hasnt come to church for like 2 weeks now though. i think he is having some problems with work and stuff but we are still working with him. and the wife of the member is still kinda frustrating. we taught her about the restoration yesterday. they had some visitors (who were from her church) though so it was kinda hard to teach it just for her. i dont think she likes us very much but i think that since her husband is a member she will be a member eventually but hopefully soon. 

we taught a really nice older lady named nancy. she meet with some elders but she knows one of the names and we know it too but she says the other and then i have no idea who the other one is but she is awesome. she has come to church twice now. she really like the church because she had been thrown out of other churches because she asks questions that people cant answer them but for some reason we can. thats kinda weird..... i guess we must be true! we got bounced a lot this week which really sucked. i really hate getting bounced... and they dont tell us until we call and ask them.

wow! i can't believe you met someone from Kenya that's investigating the church . thats awesome. tell her, yes, i would love to baptize her. i would really love that. send her this message for me:

kwa hakika tutukutana. kwa hiyo nina maswali. wewe ni kabila gani? na unakuja kwa mji gani? nina furahi sana kwa sababu unajifunza kutoka kanisa hili. kwani ninajua kwamba ni kanisa la pekee la kweli hapa duniani. ukijua hii Baba wetu wa Mbinguni atakusaidia kwenye kila kitu ambacho unahitaji msaada. 

 (tutukutana indeed. So I have some questions. What tribe are you? and do you come to town? I'mvery happy because you learn from this church. because I know that is the only true church on earth.This knowing our Heavenly Father will help you in everything that you need help.)

and ya i would love to get her a dictionary. just know that you will be buying two then cause i need one too haha. and i will bring her a book of mormon in kiswahili. 

well i will look for a cheap drum and some more carvings. tell everyone to tell you what they want or email me  because i don't have much time left to find things for people. (Maurice.maxwell@myldsmail.com)

well i hope that you have a great week love ya

elder maxwell

We had a really fun talk and he was able to talk to Kurtis and Russell and Kori too and all the kids around here. These pics were taken at his last pday at Hell's Gate near Nakuru, Kenya. Hope you all had a Happy Mother's Day!!

hey mom,

im glad that jay is home. and im glad that sami is having a great time. im really proud that she is reading now, but she should have already been reading like before i left. haha. i got a camera from elder shutt because he bought a new one it is the older version of the nixon coolpix that i had before. transfer news happens on saturday so i will tell you on sunday night. but i will most likely be calling on mothers day at either 9 or 10 pm here so you can do the math for that hah. its like 11 hours difference.

anyways, this week was just there but we did some good stuff. we went to naivasha to do some baptismal interviews. it was fun. we played games and stuff after tracting and then on wednesday we had ddm. we were able to meet with a member and we are going to start teaching his wife and stuff. so hopefully she will accept and stuff but i think she has been really fighting the church for a long time but now that the branch is here i think she will accept the church. also the other guys had a baptism and we pretty much just went to a swimming pool. it was kinda fun. and kinda funny. it was really nice tho. but also we found out that we finally got a building!!!! now finally we can have people come to church from our area. it will be really nice. now we are going to start doing some tracting..... but i dont know if that is a really good thing or what haha. anyways, that was pretty much my week. paul didnt come to church so we are going to have to push his baptismal date to a little bit later and then we will have his baptism it will be good too because there will be a few more people being baptized then too. and today we went to a national park and hiked hell's gate it was sweet!

well love ya have a good week

elder maxwell