hey mom

im glad that you were able to go to see elder baldwins homecoming and im glad that you guys were able to go to st george and go to the homecoming week. i think that its pretty kool that theres a room named after paul and stuff. i hope you had a good time there.

well this week was kinda really boring. i'm sorry sami has been sick, my comp was really sick too and he was coughing up a storm. so we werent able to do very much this week. when we would go out he would act like he was super sick and so we pretty much sat at the church and hung out there. we did that a couple of times this week so it was ok. at one of our meetings during the week i gave a training about how important it is for people to go to church. it was pretty good and i think everyone learned from it. its kinda really basic if you think about it people need to come to church and thats pretty much it. we did find some pretty good people this week. one came up to us and the other was a referral. im really glad that people give us referrals because if they didnt we we pretty much have no work ha. i think i will give referrals to the missionaries when i get home. also i found out that our swahili teacher isnt too good becasue he doesnt really know how to teach grammar that well so that kinda sucks but he is still helping kinda. anyways that was pretty much my entire week. it wasnt really fun. anyways next week we will be having zone conference. so that means i will be getting my packages!!! yay im excited.

well sorry its kinda short... well i love ya a lot have a good one

love reese

hey mom
well i think it would be really kool if you started doing my genealogy again. i would like to know where my indian ancestor is from. like what tribe. maybe aunt margaret can help. sister ndiwalana's birthday is the 15th of november so im going to give her something kool then. i can find a nativity some time and i will try and find one soon. it also depends on which size you want it. like would you want it like to cover a table or what? well baldwin left early this morning and i sent something with him that you will like a lot.... i think well at least hopefully... i also gave him your phone number so if you get a weird number calling you some time just answer it hah. dont second guess it. samantha looks awesome in her belle costume. i like it alot. i hope she has fun this halloween. she looks really different now. like she is growing up. i think she looks a lot like gracie. im glad that tina had a good lesson at sunday school. oh and my packages have arrived but they are still in nairobi. but i know that they are there anyway, just not to me in tanzania yet . 

well this week was pretty nice. this was the end of the six week transfer but it was pretty good. we had some pretty exciting things happen too. on friday we only got like a half day. the reason for that was because there was a bomb in downtown dar es salaam. so all the missionaries here in dar had to go back home. so we went home pretty much the whole day. the reason why there was a bomb was because some dude decided to pee on a koran so some of those people got mad and rioted. just for the day though. anyways on saturday we went to watch conference. it was awesome especially the saturday sessions. my favorite talk was by dieter f uchtdorf. then then one by neil L anderson. they were awesome. we stayed there at their flat for like two days. so i spent baldwins last two days with him pretty much. anyways on sunday night we had a transfer dinner with the couples. so we went to there house and ate sloppy joes. it was ok but i wished they would of made something kinda fancy. but free food is free food i guess haha. well here is the big news on transfers. no one in the entire mission is being transferred. the reason for it is because of D&C 5:34. its mostly because a lot of the missionaries are not being good missionaries. so that kinda sucks. but thats pretty much everything that has happened this week.

well i love you a lot and i hope you have a good one

love reese.

hey mom

thanks for putting some $$ on there for sister n. i think i will be getting her some pretty kool stuff. i am working on getting her a nice usb thing with a ton of music because she loves music too much.

 

anyways im excited too for conference. we have it this coming sunday. i cant believe that this will be my 3rd conference. . anyways im sorry that you werent able to go to avas baptism. im sure it was really good tho. im glad that you went to the homecoming and that bro b talked to jay. he is an awesome guy for sure. im glad too that you gave some thing to barb cause she really has done some really good stuff for us.

 

i will try to find some kool stuff here this week that i can send with elder b, but if im not very able to im sorry because its sometimes hard to find the stuff. but if i do i will send some. well i have had some good fish like 3 months ago i went to this fish place and had some fresh tuna steak and it was bomb and i had calamary and i love it! its amazing and yes i know what it is hah.

 

ya i think that i might be getting all of my packages all at once because i dont think the mission likes us people here in tanzania. they make us wait until someone comes from there to give us our stuff. so i dont know when i will get getting my packages but i will let you know when i do. it will be either this next week or in november. and anything that i get in a package from home is 1000 times better than any candy here well besides the stuff that comes from the states or europe but ya better than anything so it doesnt matter if its old, smashed or partly eaten i will eat it haha.

well this week was alright. we found a couple of new people to teach. one guy talked to us and he wanted us to teach him and help him to stop smoking. so we met with him on thursday and we had an awesome lesson. he is kind of a big person in terms of money or at least his family was so we had a sweet lesson in air conditioning. it was really nice. the one thing that sucked was that he didnt come to church and he said he would but hey what else is new. we are going to get ahold of him this week and see if we can teach him again. on friday was elder sigauke's birthday. so i got him some candy and stuff. it was funny because i put them inside of a blue diamond package that russ sent to me. and when i gave it too him he was like i really dont know what these are but thanks a lot. then he opened it and realized that it was candy. i was dying. then later for dinner i got us cheese burgers at a nice place and we watched some football aka soccer. so he enjoyed himself. but this week we have been helping the sisters teach one of their investigators and he is progressing and he should be baptized here this or next week. so that kinda exciting. anyways thats pretty much everything that was exciting this week.

well i hope that you have a good week. and i will be sure to send my stuff with baldwin. so it should be there next week. love ya lots

love reese

hey mom

this week was pretty good. oh and ps thanks for telling me the big Conference news..... NOT!! i wanted to find out when i watched. but i guess its ok. im sure someone would have told me earlier anyways. contacting went well this week although we didnt really find anyone new, but things are going well. our new swahili teacher is awesome! like a 100% difference... im now excited to be learning it again. i will tell sister ndiwalana thank you, for you. i think she will think it will be funny to get her something for her birthday. if you put something in my account i would love to do something nice for her. her birthday is nov 15th so hopefully i can think of something by then haha. she is from uganda. she is pretty kool. i think its funny that you watched "the district" haha. in the mtc we watched those things to help us to learn how to teach and stuff haha. well about jess and stuff. i did get her email about it and i believe i wrote her a message. i even asked her what the baby's name is going to be. i think it should be a swahili name so that i can know what the name means haha. i think that wet n wild would be great thing to do especially if it involved really really nice food. because i like and miss food a lot haha. ok well for me im pretty much fine here. thanks for asking. if i need anything i will definitely let you know. wow im glad that dixie is doing well. i hope that i will be there when they are still pretty good. hah. well no one has come from nairobi yet to deliver any packages. i think i might have to wait until november when the aps come to dar again. so i dont know when i will get you and grandma's birthday present. and ya i know she sent it in july!

well this week was pretty nice. we had some pretty good lessons and stuff. we got a new swahili teacher like i said and he is awesome. the old teacher would just be like a dictionary and would just tell us words and stuff because he really sucked. i hated class when he was the teacher because i pretty much had to learn by myself. also this week we went to get some burgers and they were really good. i think i might just get some today too haha. well this week we had a really powerful lesson. we were teaching a girl that we have been teaching for awhile. we taught her about the authority from God that is needed in the church. she opened up a little and told us that she has been having some problems but when we come she feels peace and stuff and she cried. it was the first lesson that ive had where some one cried, but its was good. then on saturday we had a contacting day. we did this mainly because no one really knows that our church is a church because it just looks like a really big house. we have been teaching a guy with the sisters and he is going to be baptized either this week or two weeks after because the week after next we will be watching conference. im really excited for conference too. it will be my third time watching conference in Africa. it will be nice.

 

well thats pretty much it from me this week. i hope that you are doing well. i love ya

love reese

hey mom

this week was pretty nice. well the senior couples didnt make me a birthday cake but the nolls bought me a small candy bar. sister ndiwalana, the sister who is awesome here, got me the biggest candy bar that you candy find here in Tanzania and she is a missionary who lives off of what we get every month! i got some chips too, pringles, ha.  i hope that i get my packages soon. our zone conference wont even be until november next transfer so i will still have to wait. they might be here already but they dont send them. they wait until some one comes from nairobi. im glad that you guys will be sending a halloween package because i miss candy a ton haah.

 

i will try my best to send more pics but its kinda tough here because i cant just stick my camera into any computer i see because people can get viruses on them and then all my pics could be deleted but i will send some soon. im glad that sami is loving school. i cant believe that she is learning how to read now.  im really excited for conference. i think i need a little spiritual boost from the apostles and stuff even tho i guess you could say im on a spiritual high all the time haha. i hope you told alex and kenzie that i said happy birthday. and ava and joey and my other cousin who i think has the same birthday as me hahah. ps dont tell me much about how conference is because we wont get it until a week or two or three.

well this week went by really fast. we had a nice DA this week. we had a good spiritual thought too. the lady there told the sisters that they needed to get married to a RM or at least a worthy priesthood holder. it was kinda powerful. she kinda blasted them and us. but like for us she was telling us that we need to be worthy RMs and stuff when we get back so we can marry a girl because her salvation kind of depends on it too. so that was nice. this week i aslo had the hottest day of my mission ever. we went to go grab some veggies and put up some flyers and then we went to the church. by the time we got there my shirt was soaking wet with sweat. the moisture is killer. i couldn't even do anything after that. luckily we had a lesson at the church or i wasnt going to go anywhere. haha. we got a new swahili teacher so that is nice. my swahili might improve now. he hasnt taught us yet but he got hired so hopefully i will learn something that will help me this week. we have been getting along with members better now because my new comp is here. its nice to go to members and have them like for us to be there. other than that, thats pretty much what has happened this week. this next week should be good we are planning on doing a lot of contacting so we can get more people.

well i hope you guys are having a great time and i love you guys a bunch.

love reese