hey mom

 

things are going well here. we have some good investigators. one named nancy. she is an older lady who has been through a lot of stuff in her life. im surprised she is still alive cause of all that stuff. she was burned alive covering 75% of her body and has gone through a bomb blast. and she is pretty much normal besides things like burn marks. anyways, she is awesome. she even called us last night to see if we needed help with like money and stuff cause she still doesnt really understand how we survive here without getting paid. then paul hasnt come to church and we havent been able to see him for awhile its really making me mad because he was progressing so well. but we are still working with him. thats pretty much it for missionary work. we are still finding, looking, looking!  anyways, it looks like bro bulloch hooked you up at wet n wild! elder balls got a new game called bang. its like a mexican game and its awesome. i think im going to have russ and kori buy it hah. well thats pretty much it from me. hope you have a good week. love ya

elder maxwell

hey mom,

i will continue to use the B of A card until it says that i cant, and then i will use the chase card. but my question is when did you learn the word shida??? i think you used the wrong form of plural for the word too haha. jk.  i still have the same comp. elder omara. but it doesnt actually seem that i have had him for too long but i think that is because we get along alright and there is four of us in one house so its ok. oh and mom.... really? decorate? no, we don't decorate the church. we just clean and set up chairs hah.

tracting is really crappy here. we have better opportunities just street contacting cause we can talk to more people in less amount of time. usually we just get peoples housegirls (like maids). anyways paul is doing alright. he hasnt come to church for like 2 weeks now though. i think he is having some problems with work and stuff but we are still working with him. and the wife of the member is still kinda frustrating. we taught her about the restoration yesterday. they had some visitors (who were from her church) though so it was kinda hard to teach it just for her. i dont think she likes us very much but i think that since her husband is a member she will be a member eventually but hopefully soon. 

we taught a really nice older lady named nancy. she meet with some elders but she knows one of the names and we know it too but she says the other and then i have no idea who the other one is but she is awesome. she has come to church twice now. she really like the church because she had been thrown out of other churches because she asks questions that people cant answer them but for some reason we can. thats kinda weird..... i guess we must be true! we got bounced a lot this week which really sucked. i really hate getting bounced... and they dont tell us until we call and ask them.

wow! i can't believe you met someone from Kenya that's investigating the church . thats awesome. tell her, yes, i would love to baptize her. i would really love that. send her this message for me:

kwa hakika tutukutana. kwa hiyo nina maswali. wewe ni kabila gani? na unakuja kwa mji gani? nina furahi sana kwa sababu unajifunza kutoka kanisa hili. kwani ninajua kwamba ni kanisa la pekee la kweli hapa duniani. ukijua hii Baba wetu wa Mbinguni atakusaidia kwenye kila kitu ambacho unahitaji msaada. 

 (tutukutana indeed. So I have some questions. What tribe are you? and do you come to town? I'mvery happy because you learn from this church. because I know that is the only true church on earth.This knowing our Heavenly Father will help you in everything that you need help.)

and ya i would love to get her a dictionary. just know that you will be buying two then cause i need one too haha. and i will bring her a book of mormon in kiswahili. 

well i will look for a cheap drum and some more carvings. tell everyone to tell you what they want or email me  because i don't have much time left to find things for people. (Maurice.maxwell@myldsmail.com)

well i hope that you have a great week love ya

elder maxwell

We had a really fun talk and he was able to talk to Kurtis and Russell and Kori too and all the kids around here. These pics were taken at his last pday at Hell's Gate near Nakuru, Kenya. Hope you all had a Happy Mother's Day!!

hey mom,

im glad that jay is home. and im glad that sami is having a great time. im really proud that she is reading now, but she should have already been reading like before i left. haha. i got a camera from elder shutt because he bought a new one it is the older version of the nixon coolpix that i had before. transfer news happens on saturday so i will tell you on sunday night. but i will most likely be calling on mothers day at either 9 or 10 pm here so you can do the math for that hah. its like 11 hours difference.

anyways, this week was just there but we did some good stuff. we went to naivasha to do some baptismal interviews. it was fun. we played games and stuff after tracting and then on wednesday we had ddm. we were able to meet with a member and we are going to start teaching his wife and stuff. so hopefully she will accept and stuff but i think she has been really fighting the church for a long time but now that the branch is here i think she will accept the church. also the other guys had a baptism and we pretty much just went to a swimming pool. it was kinda fun. and kinda funny. it was really nice tho. but also we found out that we finally got a building!!!! now finally we can have people come to church from our area. it will be really nice. now we are going to start doing some tracting..... but i dont know if that is a really good thing or what haha. anyways, that was pretty much my week. paul didnt come to church so we are going to have to push his baptismal date to a little bit later and then we will have his baptism it will be good too because there will be a few more people being baptized then too. and today we went to a national park and hiked hell's gate it was sweet!

well love ya have a good week

elder maxwell