Rainy Season is Back!

Rainy season don come! Small small right now, but it has definitely
arrived. It rained a little bit about everyday this week and some days
it hammered down, enough to soak your trousers all the way
through...joy! saddest part is, light still hasn't come...so no
electricity with the pain of rain. Usually its a nice exchange of
comforts but we're not experiencing the perks just yet, but I have
faith it will come soon!

and AC...well, the supermarket we shop at has AC and oftentimes you
will find missionaries just standing there in the back corner with
their eyes closed enjoying the nice break. and the one restaurant,
Sabs, we go to has AC, so we get to enjoy for a little bit once a
month which is nice. But, the internet cafes just use fans, no wonder
they all break so quick haha, but its actually cooling down with rainy
season here, which is nice. it gets super humid but like this morning
I was super chilly while brooking and hand goosebumps, while Elder
Stanford was wearing a hoody haha, so its pretty nice right now!

My burn is doing great, its going to leave a sweet scar I can show my
kids, but small small, it is going away :) but no it didn't ruin any
pants, it happened when I was wearing shorts,
unfortunately/fortunately haha

oh mother, thank you for following the spirit and doing that :) when
we follow the spirit miracles happen, oftentimes we don't understand
and sometimes don't even understand that its the spirit prompting us,
but something is prompting us, and some people fail to act on it, and
I am working super hard to notice these feelings and act on them, but
gosh, it happens so much while teaching a lesson that I think its just
part of me now

and momma...I have no idea how I do seven days a week as well haha
but, it probably has something to do with being set apart haha...I can
honestly say its not possible without it!

Well...On to the week!

On Tuesday we sent our beloved Sonaldo into town to make us district
t-shirts and gosh they turned out pretty sweet. They say Sewa Road
district on the back with all of our 10 names, and then on the front
its a picture of Sa Lone and says Kayegoma! haha so awesome!

Well, we found a new area this week, known as Sherrif town! we have
this old lady in the branch who asked us to come and visit her family
and gosh we did not realize how far out in the bush her house was, but
a little boy met us on the highway and walked us like the 15 minute
journey through the hills and jungle to the house haha and came to
find the woman had 4 chairs and a table sitting in the middle of the
lawn waiting for us. She has been a member since 1991, super old
member! and found some other old members around there. it was awesome.
we talk her grandchildren and they all came to church with her Sunday,
so I am super excited for them!

So...I saw some new food sitting on one of the food tables this week
and decided to try it...it looked like chalk and she gave it to me for
free and told me I would enjoy...I almost threw up...Elder Hovley
later told me when I ate it that that was clay...that they dig out
from the swamps and leave in the sun to harden...tasted like it sounds
so I believe it!

Pretty much every Elder in the apartment had a dream with me in it
this week and it was quite strange, but one elder had a dream that he
broke the law of chastity and I was in the dream chastising him
saying "was it worth it buddy! Was IT WORTH IT!" so glad my district
love and fear me :) haha I love them!

Well...I was trying to cook crepes this week and the gas went out in
the middle of it, but this time making a fire by myself outside did
not go well, due to the much rain we have received this week...they
just wouldn't cook and I had NO FOOD so...I tried to eat the raw
dough, and almost threw up, so it wasn't pleasant, and Elder Stanford
walked in and was like, what are you doing, I'll give you bread! And I
was like, NO, I'm too independent to eat your bread, so I continued to
try to choke down this nasty tish and ah...no bad.

We went to teach Alimatu, Fatmata, Alice, and Isonatu this week and
after the lesson (law of chastity :) ) they brought out a big bowl of
rice and beans and then brought two spoons and apologized that they
did not have any other bowls to give us, so we could just use the
spoons, and I said NO WAY! we go use we hands, de same as una. So,
there we were, digging in the rice and binge with sauce all over us
with our hands plunged in the same pot as the 4 girls haha, so nasty
when you think back on it, but rather hilarious at the time :) good
times haha

Yesterday I got to go interview a girl....who only spoke Mendes haha,
so had to have another girl sit there and translate the interview for
me, which was a little frustrating, but kinda special and nice at the
same time. It was a sweet experience though and both the girls are
such sweethearts and I'm super excited to know they are worthy to be
baptized this Saturday!

Coal pot first time! Last night, with no gas, we got to break out the
coal pot for the first time. For those who don't know. Its a small
pedestal looking thing that you put coals on and then light plastic on
fire and get the coals nice and hot and going, then put your pot on em
to cook...so we made Jollaf rice and we enjoyed haha and it was a
nice experience cooking African style!

But, we had a great week and I really saw so many miracles :) we had
12 people come to church yesterday and lots of sweet little children
who came very far. We were teaching these 2 18 year old girls and they
didn't come to church...but their tiny tiny little 10 year old brother
came, and it was so sweet! we taught SO many lessons this week, the
most I have taught my whole mission, and I got to go on 2 exchanges
with Elder Woodhead and my brother Elder Weller and it was AWESOME!
the area is doing sweet and I am really enjoying it :) can't believe
its week 5 already, this transfer is FLYING BY!

But, I love this gospel and know that it is true...It has blessed my
life in so many ways and I do not know where or who I would be without
it. I thank the Lord for his condescension in sending his only begotten
son, and I thank Jesus Christ for his condescension in that he
suffered mortality for our sakes :) I love the knowledge that this
gospel contains and it's overwhelming sometimes to think of all I have
to learn, yet encouraging that I have a life full of continual
growth.!  I love una and pray for una everyday, I tango tankey for me
life, for me mama, and me papa, and all me fambul dem. I no set god I
de and I miss una boku boku. Bikakaka for all de love and prayers dem,
Tankey tankey!

Malo way!

Love,
Jesse
Elder Sumrak