well im glad that you got those pictures! the halls are awesome people but elder hall kinda scares me (he doesnt smile much). and sister hall is a saint. an elder named elder trickett is flying home today or tomorrow and his parents came to pick him up so we met them today and they took some pictures and they let me know that they will email you them so probably you will have a picture or two by wednesday. youll be happy to know that i also gave them a disc with all of my pictures on them so you will most likely have 315 pictures of africa by next week hopefully. by the way will you mail a copy of the pictures to my dad and to kellie ( im sure you can email her for her address). im glad that jay is actually starting to get some playing time. i pray that he will every night because i want him to have the experience of his life with football because i did. im sure that his last two games are going to be fun. i cant wait to see how he did on his highlight tapes. make sure that you have him call my dad to have him come to his senior night game. make sure to let him know that i tell him good luck and have fun and make it rememberable cause i miss football so much. i think i have a lot of pent up anger i really just want to hit someone i dont know why. Not that i want to hurt someone im just in football mode cause its football season. i think i want a college sized football for Christmas like really bad it would make me happy and a lot of burts bees (im almost out of that stuff)
i cant believe that you havent start on my blog yet..... that makes me upset..... just kidding hah. but its has been like almost like 3 months... just saying. elder haynes was supposed to eat with me and a bunch of other missionaries on thursday but i was able to see him and another elder, elder sanders, it was awesome. it was kinda weird that i was so happy to see them. it feels like ive known them for like years but i only got to see them for about 20 minutes.
it sounds like jared is having a great experience. i know i did the mtc was so much fun. i loved all the guys that i met there and i know that we will all still be friends when we get back because we all live pretty close to each other. i cant wait. jared and i email each other every week its awesome. im glad that we keep in touch.
so where is Drew buckmiller going? is will lewis the one that is come to kenya also?? if so will you tell him to email me if he has any questions about stuff. but ya kellie is the only one who has sent me a package. how does that make you feel??? hah just kidding i loved getting the package but i dont want you or other people to send them if they are expensive to send cause they stuff and how much it took to send was a good amount. im gonna have to have a little talk with her hah. im glad that you were able to sub for some places to make ends meet. i pray for you guys a lot so that everything works out ok. but im glad that you and tina are having a fun time going shopping and eating delicious food that your son will like almost never be able to eat again hah. but ya they think its kool if they know what it is but mostly they are surprised that im from america hah. ya i even think its crazy. sometimes at the end of the day i look up at they sky and say," i cant believe im in freakin africa" hah. and i think that Aunt mary would love to come and i would love that too. i could show her all the coolest things about kenya she would die hah.
well this week was the start of the second transfer. and i am staying in Athi again with elder hays which i am glad because he is an awesome comp. he knows all the ins and outs and all the people love him. even tho they cant really say his name. but people love to say my name. just imagine saying maxwell in a broken british accent but eight times as fast and thats they way they say it but its usually just because they want us to buy something. i dont really know if there is really an area i want to go to but i heard that eldoret is pretty good place to go but im loving athi river besides the fact that people believe were devil worshippers which is probably the stupidest thing ever but people here are the most gullible people ever. probably worse than hillbillies hah. we actually did not get to baptize caroline. she was at work and stuff so we were not able to meet with her so i dont know when she will be baptized. ya but there is this kool thing called a supermarket that we go to. haha it called tuskys. it is a nationwide company well i mean like in the 5 big cities in kenya hah. but we buy fruits and vegetables from local vendors and stuff but we havent bought very much just like peanut butter and jelly and ramen noodles. we go eat at places for lunch but i usually get chips (french fries) from places and that pretty much fills me up sometimes. you can send me recipes anything that you think that would be good and very cheap to make like the one zatarans rice thing that you would slice sausage in i love that stuff. and also send me a recipe with yellow rice but without the saffron stuff if you can. and i have not yet made ugali maybe when i get an african companion. and im not to excited for it because its not really good by itself but i eat it at members houses. we walk all over the place mostly on dirt roads because there is only like 4 roads in this entire place and they are terrible. and i dont know if im getting skinny i just think im getting fat cause i havent been working out to much but im going to start soon.
so kool things that happened this week was on monday after i emailed you we went and played basketball at one of the nice chapels. this was the last time that a lot of the kool elders would be together in one place so we decided to have a last day of basketball. and while we were playing it started pouring and we just played thru it. and we were getting soaked so we all took our shirts off so we played basketball in the rain! it was so much fun probably the most fun ive had in basketball in a long time mostly because i hit two game winning three pointers haha. on tuesday hays and i said goodbye to the elders who were staying in our flat, elder khumalo and pocock we went to the mtc together, until their flat was finished but the problem was that it wasnt finished. they dont have beds, chairs, a fridge, water purifier, electricity, plumbing, and other things but they still decided to go. but it sucked to say goodbye to pocock because we were tight from the mtc and i love that kid hah. on wednesday hays wasnt feeling good so i gave him a blessing with the oil for administering the the sick. and that was weird, i was definitely not comfortable with doing that but i guess ill get used to it. on thursday we didnt go out cause he was feeling worse but he was better on friday.
well that was just some of the stuff that happened this week. let everyone know that i love them a lot and i miss you guys a ton
love reese