Working with wonderful missionaries

Wow! I can't wait to come help out back home, and I am so excited
to drive again that I will drive all of you people
everywhere haha.   Still I am just eating the same things pretty much
everyday...eggs, chicken, lentils, black beans, spring onion, sardines,
tuna...carrots, green beans, bell peppers, that is the extent of my variety
I think, yes it IS pretty boring, but we manage it for now. Working out
like crazy in the mornings with Elder Stanford haha, but the rain disturbed
our running plans obnoxiously last week :) but we are planning more for
this week. Can boast and say that last Monday I knocked out 1000
pushups...so sore, but I rounded off the week Saturday night, totaling the
week at 2,110 pushups, so that was a nice achievement for me...not quite
the marathon milestone I was looking for, but I will add that to my
repertoire of 5,000 jump rope too....oh what wasted time...

We had a very busy and powerful week and met on separate occasions with the
Lumley, Freetown, Kissy, and Kossoh Town zone leaders to discuss some new
approaches and plans for the mission as well as to be able to assess their
areas and how we can help them more in ministering to their missionaries. We
are blessed with such a fantastic mission that I just have to brag about how
wonderful all of our missionaries are. We aren't perfect, but gosh I talk
to lots of missionary buddies and some people in their missions just
are...not living up to their potential, and it makes me happy to know that
we have got some great and humble guys and gals here working their best to
serve their Father in Heaven. On Tuesday we attended the Freetown district
meeting with Elder Maxfield, on Wednesday we got to do a lot of proselyting
which was really sweet, Thursday we went and did a weekly planning in
Wellington, then Friday we went and attended the Kossoh Town Zone meeting
and gave a sweet and spiritual instruction on the urgency of this great
work and how to overcome casualness, and it was awesome, the Lord was truly
using us and it was a wonderful experience as Elder Stanford and I just
tried our hardest to seek the Lord's will and to be his mouth piece and to
just humble ourselves to say and do whatever He asked us to...and we really
did :)

Saturday was a FULL day of proselyting, after we attended the baptism that
we invited A. to...then on Sunday he came to church and was
interviewed and his baptism will be THIS saturday and it's going to be so
sweet. A....I can't talk enough about this great father and
husband. Really...I don't even know where to start he is about 42, has a
wife and 2 children, 2 step children as well. 1. He wants to find another
job because he is part of security at a hospital...which does abortions,
which he does not agree with after learning the Law of Chastity. 2. talked
to his boss about giving him Sundays off (not a Sa Lone accepted culture
thing to do by the way haha) 3. told his boss that he could give him
ovaltine(cocoa) instead of tea leaf, or he would taking nothing at all 4.
bought his whole family cocoa instead of tea leaf and preached to his
compound about its harmful substances. 5. came to the baptism straight from
working a 7 p.m - 9 p.m. shift, no sleep, guy is a boss and probably the
most ripped man I have seen in this entire country...I'm talking 8 pack,
but another change is he now wears a shirt all the time, which he never used
to do hahaha. gosh, he has already read almost the whole book of 1
Nephi...and he is just awesome.

Have another guy we are teaching, a muslim man, who used
to smoke 6 a day, and we created a plan for him to leave cigarettes by
June...but he has already not smoked for about 10 days now, so that man is
amazing as well, love him lots. He is(was) a cripple who could barely walk,
but ever since he came to church he has started walking without a cane and
now is walking quite fine...it truly is a miracle and the miracle is
growing more everyday :)

Not too much to say this week, just going hard and enjoying my mission so
much. I wish I could tell you that I was so stinking full of energy, but I
am EXHAUSTED, but still going harder than ever. Usually when we pray at the
end of the day, it takes me about 5-10 minutes to get up...but, tha'ts a
good time to go down and stay down, stay up during the day, go down at the
end, that's the way its supposed to be and I know it's the Lord's way and it
sure does make me happy that way...but tired too...oh, when naps will be
keeping the word of wisdom and not a sin! hahaha :)

I love you all, keep on enjoying life!

Love,
Jesse
Elder Sumrak