hey mom

well im thankful that i am here on a mission and am having great time. i am thankful for the scriptures and the understanding that i have of them now and i am thankful for the people that i have been able to meet and teach and also the people i will meet. 

 

anyways, im glad that you guys had a good thanksgiving. wow im proud that sammy was able to go into the the bowl with a scooter. i have never been down it ever with anything hah. i dont know about any package yet but it is most likely here but in nairobi. i dont get told until they bring it to me.

anyways this week was pretty nice. our investigators are doing alright. we didnt have any dinner appointments tho but this coming week we have been planning for like 3 so that will be nice. also on thanksgiving we had a zone party kinda. everyone came over to our place cause its the nicest and the biggest and we made tacos!!! probably the first and last time i will have tacos for thanksgiving but it was really nice. we ate and had a good time. we all shared what we were thankful for and then we played some cards. a game called idiot. it is awesome. i will teach it to you guys.

 

Also we had some good news on sunday.  we found out that one of our investigators can be baptized so we will be having a baptism some time soon. i probably wont be here for it though, unfortunately because i will most likely be leaving next week because this week is the last week of the transfer. his parents are ok with him being baptized so we are excited, but i guess i already told you that haha. well we have been doing bunch of stuff with the sisters because sister n is going home soon so we have been hanging out with them. but that is pretty much it for the week.

well i love ya guys have a good one

reese

hey mom

um thanks for the birthday present. it was awesome. the shoes are like the most comfortable things ever, i love them. tell grandma thank you! my dad got me this awesome football for my birthday too! well im excited for the halloween package, i hope its nice. well with the christmas package maybe some gatorade mix or something. im not really good at this kinda of stuff just be creative. hah. im excited for the brazilian package from Lucianne. i think i want to go to Brazil. that would be awesome. i mean the hottest girls on the planet live there i hear haha. and i want to try the food. ya i was able to find a good sd card and we found a pretty good place for that kinda stuff. so i will try to send some more pics hopefully soon. trust me you are not missing out on too much. i mean you are supposed to miss me right hahah. jk. anyways sami is getting huge. i dont remember her being taller than the table and chairs so that was kinda weird hah. well that ragnar race kurtis and tina did sounds pretty kool. im not a big running type to tell you the truth hah.

this week for me was really nice. we had a lot of good things happen. we went and did a lot of contacting this week so that we could help our area and it was really awesome. we found a bunch of people. we had a few lessons with some people that were really good. usually we teach people on the street. but this was nice. a guy even came to the church after just meeting him one day on the road. it was kool. one thing that was awesome was that we went to teach a recent convert that we knew and when we were walking back to the church we walked back and this random guy stopped us. his own words were,"hey do you guys have book of mormon? i used to have one when i was in zimbabwe (ps where my comp is from). i loved it soo much. and i need it." it was really kool. i havent had anything like that happen before so it was really nice. we also went to a DA and they fed us pork and stuff. it was so good. i havent had that much meat in forever. and then on sunday she brought us a bunch more so we went to the sisters flat to share it and had a feast. it was awesome. so that was pretty much my week. oh ya one more thing it was super hot too haha.

hey so i have a favor to ask on thursday. will you send a message to sister ndiwalana because that will be her birthday. her email address is rosillah.ndiwalana@myldsmail.net. and also i have been getting money out to get her a present. and if you look at the pic of our fridge you will know what i used it on haha! anyways it will be good i will send you a pic of it later. well i love ya and i hope you have a good week.

love reese

hey mom

 

so first off yes i got my packages! they are awesome! i got one from my dad and one from you and grandma for my birthday (almost 3 months ago!).  i had to get some money out for the packages for customs because some one was really honest and put how much things cost and left price tags on stuff...... haha. anyways, i have been buying some stuff to take home because there might be a chance that i leave tanzania next month.  thats awesome that allie is going to argentina. i have a friend named dan who is there right now. he is the one who who sent the email too with the email address. so do they leave the same time or what? that would be really weird to go to the same mission as your sister for sure haah.

 

 our investigators are doing ok. with transfers ya i was ok with it because i knew i was going to stay anyways. ya with the status of how many people are members, its true, less than 1000 members are here but like less than half are active or maybe like 60%, which really sucks. if more people were active and were being good members the work would progress a ton faster. ya ive kinda seen how the hurricane has been effecting the east coast. im glad that dixie is doing better hopefully when i get there we will be awesome. thanks for send that stuff to dan and kellie. i hope she gets it soon... anyways i will remember those dates and make sure you tell Macy and Laytin happy birthday for me. well im excited to hear about the election.  

well this week was nice for me. we had zone conference this week and it was pretty awesome. we had elder hartman come again and teach us about the colors again. it was nice and i really know that i am a Red Yellow. but he says that it should be when you were younger. so i think you should do the test for me and figure out what i was like then. because he says after time you can change your color because of growing up and stuff. anyways it was nice too see all the people from tanzania. my old companion elder madubanya is the new ap with elder pocock so it was nice to see them also. it feels like a long time since i have seen president broadbent. it has been like 4 months almost and when i started i used to see him like once a week so it definitely feels like a different mission here. i wasnt able to meet with elder hartman which kinda sucked but i guess at the same time was a good thing. on friday i opened my packages and they were awesome!! my dad sent me a football (nike one by the way) and some olympus shirts and candy which was pretty awesome.  by the way the new memory foam flip flops are FREAKIN awesome!! i love them so much. thank you. its nice to have some thing new on my feet instead of the ones that are four years old haha. but on saturday we cleaned the church because no one came to do it so that was kinda fun. also zone conference was nice because president broadbent did some blasting. it was nice because a few people in this zone are being super bogus.

anyways that was pretty much my week. we will be doing a lot of finding this coming week because we only have kidogo a small amount of investigators. well i love ya and i hope you have a good week

love reese