What a week it has been! We do this thing called street boarding here. Its where all the missionaries in a District hand out pamphlets to people walking by and we gave out 90 in less than an hour! We also got 3 new investigators from it! We were able to have Thanksgiving with the Pehrsons (the senior couple here) and we got to explain to the African Elders why we celebrate Thanksgiving and it was nice to slow down and think about it. I am so thankful for all of my friends and family and the unforgettable experiences and memories we have had. Those truly mean more to me than you will ever know. I am so lucky to have the friends and family I have. I am also thankful for the gospel and the church. Many people think it is not true or that we are a cult or whatever. But the truth is if it wasn't true I wouldn't be out here. As a missionary I gave up and sacrificed sooo much. A lot more than a lot of you know. So I am grateful for the amazing gospel and the experiences I have had thus far on the mission! The work is going good and the word is true! I invite all the remember our Saviour this Christmas time and to help others! I love the spirit that comes with Christmas and it will be sad to not be able to share it and experience it at home but what an opportunity I have laid in front of me to share it to the people here in Kenya! We have another baptism on Sunday for Brother Philip. He is so nice and loving and ready to join the church! He is one of the nicest people I have met here and am so grateful to be a little part in his life! Elder Mwanziu and I went to this members place in Iten. It is super pretty there and they have an overlook of the Rift Valley which we went to and I will show you! It was a crazy ride out their considering there was 24 adults in the Matatu and I was in the back...and the windows didn't open hahaha. Oh yes and it was an hour away! What an adventure! Then on the ride back we got in a nicer one and we weren't squished at all! We also had exchanges this week and it went really well! I was with Elder Le Cheminant who is from Canada! Me and him get along really well and the exchanges went good! Its good to be able to see how other missionaries do things. But at the same time it is so hard because you are so used to and comfortable with your companion that when you split up things seem wrong. Its weird how that happens. We also had some big rain storms here and funny enough we had to buy a heater! You guys are probably thinking what on earth!? Who in their right mind would buy a HEATER in AFRICA! You open the door and their is your heater! Well yes that is true....in the day time. But at night and in the mornings it is cold and is hard to escape from my comfortable blanket and start the day Some random things are that we saw this BRAND new Black Range Rover! I was just staring at it until I could no longer see it anymore and I was just like daaaang that is beautiful! Then like 5 minutes after the Subaru WRX STI drove by us and stopped at a stop sign and then he floored it and boosted like crazy! It was super fast and I was just like ahhhh man i miss the cars from home! Me and Elder Le Cheminant were also talking about F1 and how sadly Mercedes will probably win it again and how news on the street is that Nico Rosberg will win it this year. Funny moments of the week: So I have quite a few for this week. When we were handing out pamphlets this crazy lady came up to me (because I'm white) and starting singing and dancing in some African language that isn't Swahili and the Kenyans walking by were just laughing because I had NO clue what was going on. Then she stopped and put out her hand, I was like oh here we go. Then one guy said that she is from the tribe Turkana up north and he said that she has now "worked" for me by singing and dancing and I now need to pay her. I said I had no money for her but she insisted and then the nice guy gave her 10 bab. Another funny moment is we met our investigator Naftals family. He is a piki-piki driver and he was giving us a ride back to the church and he was like "Merz do you like the rain" I said yes and then like 5 seconds later it started raining. Like real rain, not Utah rain like dumping buckets of water. By the time we got to the church it looked like we jumped in a swimming pool but I was just laughing and enjoying it all! :) The last thing is when we got our heater I payed and then the guy at the till called the manager over I was a bit scared. Then the manager pulled me aside and was saying something about 500 kish (shillings). I asked him to explain it again and he said that at random people win free money and somehow I won! I was soooo surprised and shocked and excited at the same time! I got like a big check and he said we had to use it tonight. So we went back in and Elder Mwanziu and I decided to get a lot of yogurt. So we got like 6 yogurts that's are about double the size of the ones at home. I went to the same till and the guy said ahh you're back! Then he looked at all of the yogurt and at me and then back at the yogurt and I swear he was like "What is wrong with this guy? He just won 500 kish to spend on ANYTHING and he spends it ALL on yogurt. What an absolutely crazy white guy!!" I just started laughing so hard and just kept on going with it! It was so funny I wish you could have seen it!