So happy that you got to meet Sister Labrum and receive all those pictures as well! that sounds like such a sweet time you had and ah, poor Elder Rogers, I know they are suffering over there and not having an easy time so I wrote him a nice long letter today that I am going to send out there this week. Love that guy and feel bad about the pictures as well, but fortunately I have a lot of pictures of his first 12 weeks :) so, at least he has those, and some pics of his recent converts as well, but I don't dare send them, his family can receive them when I get home :)
As for the bed bugs, no more of that fortunately, but my arms got scarred by it as well as my feet, but its not too bad, no pain at least. Today we had super p-day and I was a bit bummed because we didn't get to play football, but we got to watch Ephraim's Rescue, which was awesome! It was hilarious and touching and left me inspired to go out and minister and do the work, so I recommend it as a must see for anyone, Mormon or not, you will enjoy!
So, last Tuesday we went into town and fought for transport in the morning to go to Kissy to attend their district meeting. The road to Kissy and Waterloo is the crappiest road in all of Sierra Leone, its so tiny and so busy and the most traveled road in the whole country,I can't imagine how many millions use it, poda poda, bike men, people pushing handcarts and wheelbarrels and just craziness! Well, it was craziness that morning, thats for sure, as traffic was completely stopped and we ended up jumping outta the taxi and running down some back roads to look for a poda poda, to then find police men pretty much tackling bike men off their bikes because bikes are illegal on the main roads now, so we jumped inside a moving poda and made our way to Kissy for an awesome district meeting...took us almost 2 hours to get home afterwards with all the transport issues...so we finally get home by about 3:00 or so and have to take care of tons of stuff in the office, so then we were finally packed up and ready to go by 5...to go to waterloo for exchange, waterloo is past kissy...by like an hour...so we fought and fought for transport and eventually got to the road where you load up to go to waterloo and there was a HUGE line, and we could NOT wait, so we managed to beg a driver in the line to let us load early, much to the anger of the crowd, who all stormed the poda when they saw us enter, which left some wounds on my legs, but nothing serious, as I made my way to the back and sat down...for 2 hours or so, because we didn't arrive in Waterloo until abut 8:15, but was happy to find my man Elder Weller eady to receive us, and this time we thought ahead and brought nets and everything, so we had a wonderful time with those elders that evening in the Waterloo apartment sleeping on mattresses on the floor.
Well, Wednesday I got to go on exchange with Elder Weller all day in the Igbo town area and it was so cool because I just made such great friends with everyone in the area so quickly. Honestly, one day with those people and we were already great friends laughing and sharing experiences and inside jokes somehow and ah, I love the people of Sierra Leone so much, and it was already hard just to leave that area! Even found 1 of my recent converts from Mt. Aureol there and got him with the missionaries given them referrals :) So, we went home early to get transport and made it back to the apartment around 8:30 or so and cooked up some dinner and collapsed in bed...too much transport destroys the body!
Thursday was not a day of rest, as we were up early to the Kanzlers arriving to pick us up to take us back to the new area we are helping to establish so we could look for apartments. We boarded the ferry and fell asleep for most of the ride, and met our awesome guy W. and he spent the day showing us all the apartments he had found for us as potentials. Some, out in the bush, just mansions and what not. Others, tiny little houses. Another, big one, owned by an american woman from New York who I had fun chatting with, and others, and it took a couple hours. Then, the awesome Kanzlers fed us a nice lunch and we even stopped at a beach to look at some shells that were there, but the beach was absolutely filthy, so we didn't stay too long and made our way back across on the ferry, and even found time to go teach a lesson after we got back, so a very successful day!:)
Friday, we got to have our report with President and then our weekly planning and then we got to go out and teach for a couple of hours which was super sweet, and then Saturday we got to spend the whole day out teaching and it was great!
Sunday was a sweet day as well as another american guy from New York was visiting and he wasn't in our area, but I spent the whole time fellowshipping him and getting to know him and he already agreed to baptism...so cool!:) I love the gospel! Went out in the evening and accomplished much. Some muslims were playing some apostate pastor/shek tish that talked about how Jesus Christ didn't die on the cross on some LOUD SPEAKERS and Elder Nwosu and I went and confounded them, bore testimony, and they took the CD out and promised not to play it anymore :) we took our recent convert/future missionary Hawa out to teach with us and we taught a pastorish guy and she started throwing scriptures out at him confounding this guy and all his false doctrines about the Trinity and the creation and atonement and I was just so proud of her :) so...yeah, that was my week in a nutshell haha
I am seeing miracles everyday, and even the tiny ones are the biggest testimony builders, like today, as we were trying to get the DVD player to work and NOTHING was working, and my companion was being stubborn, and I just said a short prayer, and hit the play button, and it came on...its just those little ones that really mean the most and really testify to me that God is watching us and listening and just waiting for us to ask, and sometimes we don't ask because we feel like its silly, or he doesn't care, but I testify he cares..He loves us and he cares and he just wants us to show our faith by closing our eyes and asking...I can testify that this week if you try it show your faith in the big and small tings alike, and watch the miracles that you will, you will see God's hand in your life :) So, a great week and more to come I am sure...the journey never ends...onward we go!
Love,
Elder Jesse Sumrak
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