Monday, January 16, 2017

Oh yeah so I dont remember if I told all of you before but Eldoret is called the City of Champions. Almost all of the Olympic runners come from here! So quick news, I am staying here another transfer! Both Elder Mwanziu and I! We are both super excited and happy! Eldoret is home! The thing about the transfers here is that they dont tell you until about 11:30 on saturday night so if you are moving then you dont know until then and then you have to rush the next day to pack everything! Its all good though we are staying here!! This week was a very good week! We got some new investigators and let me tell you about one. His name is Alex and he has been a Catholic his whole life. He feels that he hasent grown spiritually and so we wants that as well as to come closer to our Heavenly Father. So for him he saw the chapel here being built and was curious about the church. Well that was 4 years ago and he never learned about it. So one day he decided to come see and then boom! We met him and showed him around and got to know him vetter as well as gave him a Restoration pamphlet. Well we met with him on Sunday and he told us he read the entire Restoration pamphlet and that he prayed as well and knows that the Restoration is true and that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of God and that this church is true! I was completly blown away and was speechless! It was so incredible!!! His intentions are true and his desire is their as very strong! So that is very cool!! So here if you havent been able to tell so far we walk!!! So we walked on this super boring dirt road to this place called Kapsoya. It was Elder Mwanziu, Antony (our branch missionary), and me. Well we had like an hour to walk so what do you do when their is nothing to do? Siiiiing. So we start singing Delerious by Vistoso Bosses and sing like the entire song and I was hitting the high notes and we were all just dying laughing and the people walking by were like what the crazy white guy! Andwhen i ay people i mean the occasinal 1 we would see every 15 minutes. Then the day after we were coming from the market and again it was baren of people so we sang All of Me by John Legend and it was cool! We should do a duet but with 3 people. (Dont know the name for that). This week we also got to visit many less-active families as well as members. We saw Sister Jane and 2 of her adorable daughters! Rita (5) and Pinky (4). They are seriously so cute!! On Sunday they came and sat by me and Pinky held my hand haha how cute! :) On Saturday we decided to send a text out from our awesome Nokia phone to all of our investigators and less actives and just reminding them about church tomorrow and inviting them to come! Well the next day we saw the fruits of our labours! We have 11 invstigators at church, 2 recent converts (there arent many here....yet haha), and 7 less actives! It was incredible! The chapel was like filled and so we will be doing that every week!! One last thng for the week. So we were walking and just outside downtown Eldoret is a parking street. Well we were walking on it and I saw some skateboarders. So I decided we should walk over and talk to them. At this time there was 4 people there not including Elder Mwanziu and I. I made a deal with one of them that if I could do a pop shov-it and and 180 off the curb that he and his friends would have to take a pamplet. They agreed and little did they know I used to skateboard. So I did it and they were all like AYYYYY whaaaat!? No way!!!! So then I tried a few other tricks like a kickflip and heelflip and a truk trick. It was suuuuper hard in my church shoes but they all eventually took pamphlets and it was great! They said they hope to see me again and they like love me haha. They are pretty good though so yeah it made me feel cool! They were doing kick flips and heel felips easy. Anyways last part of this awesome story. By the time we leaft there was like 15 people there who all came when they say me skateboarding and some tried to just stand on the board but couldnt and almost fell off and so yeah it was a very good contacting opportunity. We contancted everyone hahaha!! Funny moments of the week: So those that were added about the week but also one day we were in a Matatu and Antony wanted to go buy a banana so he left but told us not to leave. Well he was walking back so we told the Matatu driver to like slowly drive off. So this guy starts booking it to the Matatu meanwhile everyone inside is laughing and when he gets in we are all still laughing hahaha. The 1st counselor is a little bit crazy here. So weve been here for 3 months and in his phone our names are saved Elder Mwanzui and Elder Merze. Keep in mind we have our name tags that show how to spell them and he then changed it but still says our names wrong and we just laugh everytime! The cool thing is, is that his birthday is the 21st of Feburary, mine is the 23rd and Elder Mwanzius is the 29th. Well he doesnt have a birthday this year so Mulati was like "Ahhh what shall we do then?" and he was like serous not even trying to be funny but we were laughing so hard. So then he was like "i will suprise you with a bucket of cold water and then take a picture" So both of us need to be careful becuase he is targeting both of us, but we will get him on his birthday so he better watch out as well! Haha he is great! Anyways thats it for the week and excuse my spelling! No time to fix it! All my love, Elder Merz

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