Phone call from Reese

I'm so excited!!! I got to talk to Maurice on the phone today! He arrived in Nairobi, Kenya at around 3:30 this afternoon (5:30 am Las Vegas time! I know because I was commenting to my friend Charolette that it was 3:30 in Kenya on our way to the gym this morning! Funny how that works! ;)) We got to talk for almost 20 minutes! Sami got to talk to him for a second too. Jay was at school..... He told me that he tracted in Sowetto, an urban area with over a million blacks that was historically involved in apartheid in South Africa Something like that??? I googled it, pretty interesting.... school children fighting against apartheid and starting the road to democracy in the late 1970's.
He also told me that his first area was going to be Athi River, somewhat close to Nairobi. He says his companion is Elder Hayes- crazy that he didn't know his first name, but anyways....he is 6'7" tall so now Maurice is the shorty! HAHA! He wants to go to Tanzania because they are now able to learn and teach Swahili there. His friend Seth from St George is going to Mombasa (coastal)!
Letters are 98 cents to send from the Post Office and take around 10 days to get there. You can also go to dearelder.com and send letters through the church pouch system for free- it takes about 20 days for those to get there. He doesn't have a lot of time to read/send emails and may or may not have a computer in some areas, but I don't think it is against the rules to email him at his maurice.maxwell@myldsmail.net account. I will know more later... He wanted me to let you know that if you do send him a package, make sure that you put pictures all over it of Christian images (Jesus, temples, churches, etc) and that say "missionary supplies" because he says Kenyans are extremely into keeping their "juju" good and if they mess with God's people their "juju" will be bad! Also, every package that comes in has to pay customs fees that Maurice has to pay in order to get them. I attached a letter from the mission referring to that... Some requests: candy, sd cards for his camera (taped to the inside of a jello or mac and cheese box and sealed back up- be creative)
Elder Maurice Maxwell
Kenya Nairobi Mission
PO Box 46162-00100Upper Hill Road Next to Citigroup
Nairobi, Kenya
+254-20-4985-220