Week 5

so on wednesdays and saturdays we go to a place called Kitengela which is another part of my area but its kinda far away so we take a matatu there. all of our progressing investigators are from there, its really good part of our area. there is this lady named sister matwale (ma-twal-le) and she gives us a referral to someone and she lets us teach them in her house and every time she feeds us so i love going over there cause she gives us soda, dinner or snacks and stuff. its awesome hah. we had stake conference on sunday and we stayed at elder smedleys flat. and funny enough his name is kirk. so i had to tell him that you have been stalking his missionary blog. he thought that it was way funny tho so it was all good. when we meet people, me and my companion like to ask people where they think im from and most will say south africa, kenya and zimbabwe but if i talk people know immediately that im from the US my accent gives it away bad ha. most people accept the things we tell them but the hardest thing with investigators here is that they wont come to church. they say they will but when it comes time for church they say that they are busy (which they are not) or they are up country which means they are going to see family that lives where they were born but most of the time they arent. i am teaching pretty well i think, but my companion is awesome and he knows his stuff. hes way smart and knows the book of mormon like the back of his hand. when we come up to people to start teaching we ask them why they think there are so many churches and should they have to pay. cause here some churches make people pay before they come in and depending on how they pay determines the seats that they get which is crazy. anyways we didnt have a baptism we just committed people to be baptized but soon we will have one and i will let you know when we do. last week we had a pretty good week. we taught a bunch of lessons. im having a good time its crazy to think that i am in africa! i really still cant believe it. its awesome tho. one really kool thing we did this week is on the outskirts of Athi River and Kitengela there is an animal reserve that you can go to without paying money and it doesnt have a gate. so this week i saw wild giraffes, zebras, wildebeests and gazelles!! i was like 40 or 50 yards away from them! you hardly see animals in the US only like pigeons and you can see those here too ha. its crazy to think that i am like a 30 min walk away from wild AFRICAN animals hah. took a ton of pictures too. it was fun! i tried to have someone make my pictures smaller so i can email almost all of them at once but it didnt work so i will try and send some next week as many as i can it will probably take a long time to send 2 or 3 but i will, i promise. but i have not gotten your pictures sorry but if you can just send some of you jay sam and everyone else.
so thats my update for this week. just let people know that i would love getting emails and questions from everyone cause we can email anyone. so when you send emails ask questions because its easier to write things when im answering questions. also can you send me recipes of zatarans yellow rice seasoning from online somewhere and dirty rice and french fries from a pan, taco meat seasoning, spaghetti and marinara sauce, and stuff for garlic noodles.
i love you guys and i will keep you in my prayers.
love Reese p.s i ate this stuff called casava it is freakin nasty. its a root that they love here so i took a bite and spit it out when no one was looking ha.