New Companion!

FAMILY! Friends! The madness is currently going on and I am trying to keep my sanity. My phone has been ringing off the hook with transfer news, questions, and transfer movement questions and when am I being picked up? Why haven't I been picked up yet? Where am I supposed to go? And boy it's just crazy and just writing this email this one paragraph I have answered the phone like 3 times.  So we are in the process of it all right now, with the 5 departing missionaries with us right now, Jones, Symons, Despain, Turner, and Mills and we just took them all to town to go blow all their money on goodies for home. Got some hamburgers and ice cream and now back to the mission office just trying to shoot off a lil email before we are off to the hardest week possibly of my mission haha....the reason being...I am flying pretty much solo right now, as my companion has received his transfer news and will be going to Lungi to open up that area, and I have received my new companion, the amazing and hard working Elder Stanford, who I have been praying to be compaions with my whole mission because of his work ethic, but he is new here and doesn't really know whats going on, so its all on me right now because I have been here, but my companion is prematurely retired haha, but I will make it through...and if not, then someone died and it wasn't because of ebola! 

Oh, the insanity of it all, this week we received the news about the Ebola entering the country and it has just been pandemonium. Missionaries calling in asking if they have the symptoms. So we had a staff meeting and we all discussed our emergency plans and ended up sending immediate funds to every apartment who went out and bought 2 weeks worth of rice, toilet paper, food, water, and the like to stock every apartment in case we were put into lockdown mode...its been a difficult week...were not allowed to shake hands with people anymore, even missionaries really, we aren't allowed to eat ANYTHING off the street, which we don't cook ourselves, so its super hard right now but we are working to get adjusted. I don't believe that the Ebola is really a threat anymore, even though rumors pop up of people in Freetown getting it...but gosh I had nightmares the first couple nights, thanks to the 3 hour video we watched wtih Mrs. Key in high school on it...geeze that is scary stuff, but all is well here and the exctiement and nerves are finally dying down...all is well... 

But...besides that all is well. Our poor president was so busy and we normally receive transfer news on Wednesday, but it didn't come until Friday, so we have been going ever since in that office until 10 PM just working our minds off! On Friday though, we did go to the bank, then joined Gyewu-Appiah and Lanier to go get Indian food at Saffron, some new restaurant...it wasn't bad. just fried rice with some nice hot indian dressing on it. super yummy though. By the way, last Monday we went to a place called Ginnas which was like a frozen yogurt/jamba juice place haha where I got some real frozen yogurt and it was delicious. It was so sweet! the place was so cool. Wireless interent and just everyobyd in there was white...it was very strange! so, I left and bought some african street food and came back (before the ban might I add...I'm obedient :) ) 
but, Friday evening the Kanzlers took us out for Elder Nwosu's last dinner with them and we went to the nice restaurant, Crown Express! Where we had amazing delicious food and a wonderful experience. I got 2 giant crepes, stuffed with chicken and shrimp haha, which was SOO stinking good! then back home to work the whole night.... And yeah 

Welll....I miss you and love you all...thank you for everything. sorry for how busy I am...I want to talk more but I am so busy right now. Love you all :) love you mamma and pappa! 

Love, 
Jesse
Elder Sumrak