WOW! cockadoodle doooo! How are you? Guess who!?! It’s me! Yes, your
partially African son. I'm feeling Great today and you know my day has been
good but you know what makes it better is that I get to write to the most
awesome family ever!!! That’s You!...not the Brady Bunch. hahaha Man! So I woke
up this morning and the temperature was nice and warm and the air was good and
dusty…mmmm mmm. I feel right at home! That is SO crazy that you already have
snow in the mountains! I didn't think that would come at least until half way
through October. What is nature THINKING! But wow, it sounds like your week has
been pretty good. I am glad mom that you were able to go and see gma and gpa
Davis! That is to bad that their computer has been down but I love them SO much
and that is good to hear that gpa is planning on living to be 100! I am looking
forward to it! But it kind of really just makes me laugh when I think of how
gma would get all frustrated over technology. Bless her heart. Dad, that is so
good that you got to go fishing! Way to Catch! That’s the way my dad does it! Haha.
Skyler, hope school is going great! I know you’re getting good grades! Ya? And
work, I hope that’s good too!
This week. This week my companion and I have been getting to
know each other a little better. We are finding ways that we can teach and I
know that I am definitely learning great things from Elder Ndwandwe. This week
we found one of our old investigators that we lost contact with a while ago.
His name is Edwin. We have been teaching him a lot and he has been asking those
good questions and it is so good to be able to answer him. We had an amazing
experience with Edwin though. We sat down with him after church and just
started chatting with him. It was nice to see him at church again and he said
that he had really felt the spirit. Earlier this week we had asked him about
the B question and told him to pray about it and we'll come up with a date.
When we were chatting with him, he actually brought up Baptism. He said that he
had found a date and that the Lord really has been answering his prayers. He
says that he wants to get baptized this next WEEK! So we are planning on having
a baptism this next week and are so excited for Edwin!!!
We also have been working with these two other sisters, I don't know
if I have mentioned but we've been teaching them since I have been here. Their
names are Caroline and Irene. They are college students and have just been
living in Eldoret for school. We actually finished teaching them about
everything that needs to be taught this last week. They say they feel good
about being baptized but at the same time they are not ready. Both of them
actually come from families that are apart of other religion. So that is just
one thing that they are struggling with as to tell their families and really
have enough faith in the Lord that all will work out. They just also really
want to fully feel like it’s the right thing. I have SO much faith in them and
am just praying for them. I can see that they are ready to enter the waters of
baptism but we don't want to force them to do anything. But looking to the
future for them! All we can do is just keep being their friend!
Ah. So my talk went great! I talked about one of my ultimate
favorite topics ever…Testimonies. Yes it is getting easier to prepare for
these things especially when you have such a testimony about what you are
talking about. My personal testimony just keeps climbing and growing! I
actually have really been gaining more of a testimony on families this last week.
It felt like everything that I was teaching or learning or just seeing around
me really came to family. I love it that in this culture, family is everything
and that everybody IS family. I also see that there are a lot of broken
families too. It breaks my heart to see someone that is so lost and away from a
family. I love to be able to help and show them this gospel though and show
them that we are an eternal family and that God is our Father and that He does
LOVE us more than we can comprehend. It makes me feel more and more grateful
that I have such a loving family that has showed me the way and that really
does love me. I know that family is the most important, and I have seen how
this plan really is just centered all together on family. What great blessings
that I have in my life and each of you are one of them. Thank you for being
just so great!
Anyhow, this is getting to be to long of a letter…haha but I just
love it out here. I can see myself changing and even into an African. One thing
that I have to work on is kind of changing my accent actually. It is fun to try
and communicate with some of these people. Sometimes a little frustrating but
if I'm teaching the gospel, then so worth it. One of the sisters is like, you
are living in Africa so you'll have no choice but to become an African!
haha I am happy and healthy. Life is
great. Oh, so we actually live in a flat. It is just pretty much an apartment
inside a compound, or surrounded by a cement wall. Hopefully I will be
sending pictures soon. Sorry…been slacking on that. I hope you all have an
amazing week! I love you lots lots and wish the best! Keep safe! And keep up
the good work!
Much love from:
Elder Andreasen
KEEP SMILING!
P.S. Halloween. Halloween? Does that even exist in Africa…I don't
even know! I'll have to ask for sure!
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