January 1st

hey mom

well this week was a pretty good week. we taught a lot of people and hopefully if everything works out we will have a baptism or two this week.  i learned how to make my favorite food called Chapati or Chopos. they are freakin hard to make you have to knead them, then oil them, then knead them again and then roll them out and cook em. sounds easy but way hard. they were really good tho. and ive been showing people how to make mexican food, or tacos, and people are amazed at it. when you put the food in the chapati they start busting up laughing because that's not what they normally do with them. but its a lot of fun. i went to my first kenyan wedding on saturday too.  it was like a regular wedding but it was at one of the lds churches in nairobi. it was pretty fun. there was kenyan dancing and they dance alot with their knees haha.  but i didnt join in..... im kinda mad that i didnt but they dance weird. they will get sealed this week in south africa so that was pretty kool. so the end of my third transfer happened this week well yesterday. so my fourth transfer starts today. i am staying in athi river with elder vilakati for i think at least 6 more weeks then i will go to my next area. elder smedley is coming back to nairobi so im excited to be able to hang out with him again.

well im glad that you guys had a good New years! here in kenya they cant celebrate with fireworks and stuff mostly because they are fighting a war right now so they will probably think that they are gun shots haha. but what they do is eat a lot and drink and party like most of the world.  we, on the other hand stayed up til 12 yelled happy new years, i ate my last reeses and went to bed hahah. sounds pretty exciting huh? then on Sunday we only went to church for one hour too and we didnt fast. which was awesome. we will fast this next week.

so, some of my new year resolutions are:

1)read all the books in the missionary library

2)go through the book of mormon and take notes about all the chapters that have a lot of importance

3)become EXACTLY obedient

4)get 20 baptisms

5)get some way kool African things

well i hope you guys have a happy new year and a great week. love ya guys!

elder maxwell