November 3rd email

hey mom,

yes i did take the train to Nairobi. we get up really early to go and come here so that we can email back and forth. we dont see the missionary couples too often because we are still considered to be in Nairobi. anyways, i am so happy that you got that job tho i have praying every night that you would get it. now you can send me $$$! haha!! YAY!! i found an awesome pair of jeans they are levis 505's and i bought them for 100/- or $1!! they probably cost like $50 so tell jay that if he wants any kind of clothes ill look for them here and theyll be cheap hah. well im glad that jay was able to play. i hope his shoulder is doing well. make sure you tell him that if it hurts that he needs to come out because if he hurts it too bad it will take a long time to heal and maybe interfere with scholarships and stuff. also make sure that you send some of his film out or have him talk to our dad about helping him with some stuff.

well im glad that you guys had a good halloween. mine was pretty good..... i guess. africa doesn't celebrate halloween. we went to this mall that is in a very rich part of town and we found a candy booth with american candy. so i bought sprees, sweet tarts and starburts for halloween and it cost me like like $7 but i was happy. we also had some really good cake. i had some chocolate cake and hays got some cheesecake and it was good.

for me this week was pretty good. on tuesday we met a ton of americans that were doing a study abroad thing. it was so kool to talk to them because it felt like i was at home just hanging out and talking to people and stuff. it was awesome. it was kinda funny because i would ask, "where are you from?" and some would say "america" really slowly like they couldnt tell i was american and thought i was kenyan (i do not look kenyan, do i?) then i was like "ok but where from?" then they would say some east coast state. and i would say "kool im from vegas" and then they would laugh and im sure that they felt pretty dumb but it was funny. it made me miss home a lot though.

the next day was funny. we were filling up some 40 liter jerry cans after our mama came and did our laundry. (a mama is a lady with kids, anyway we have them do it when we have a lot and will take us forever. we pay her 250/- (shilings) which is $2.50 which is awesome...) but we kinda forgot about it and flooded our flat! hah but luckily we dont have carpet or anything like that so we just had to mop it up and fan off the place for the rest of the day. i thought that it was kinda funny. i dont think elder hays thought that it was though. later that day we met with this lady who has the cutest little girl. i gave her my tag and she got it and put it up to her head and started talking to it hah. it was so funny so i will send you a pic of her.

Friday we painted a members house that was making part of her house a salon and kinyozi (barber shop). we had a good time with that except here in kenya they dont use paint the same way as we do. the guy that was helping us put a ton of paint thinner in the paint so that it was no longer thick it was like water. so it dripped a lot. i think that we painted mostly the ground hah. sunday sucked though.... we had 3 people that were supposed to be baptized next week and none of them came to church so we have to put their dates back a week or two but we will be having some soon....hopefully.

well i hope you have a good week and you have a good time. i will remember to keep you guys in my prayers. Love you guys, Reese