Tuesday, we had our monthly MLC meeting and it went really well as we discussed some of the weaknesses we are seeing with some of the missionaries in the mission as of right now, and it really set up well for president to announce the zone conference training ideas that we will be instructing on starting tomorrow!
Wednesday, we had a lot of office work and the like to do, but ended up catching a ride with President Kargbo out to Allentown where we were to join up with the entire Waterloo Zone for their Zone Blitz training on finding and contacting families. So we get a call that they started early and were having the training, and the traffic delayed us small, but Elder Stanford and I napped...yeah, we're pathetic and we got a call who we would be training...so then epicly of course, we see them standing at the junction, ready to go and teach the Lord's Lost Sheep, and our driver pulls up, we throw open the van door, scriptures in hand, jumping out with our marine haircuts..."Let's go save some lost souls boys!" so, yeah maybe Elder Stanford and I made it a lot more dramatic then it actually was, but Igot to take Elder Udofot into his proselyting area and help train him on finding and teaching families and kingdom builders...first contact, my mistake, 2 pastors and a muslim, show down, bear testimony, lets go! on to the next one, its a hardcore Muslim who won't even look at us and snubs our outstretched hands...going really sweet thus far. 3rd contact, inspired, stopped a man and he asks if we are Jehovah's witness, strange this is, he says it in perfect English, to be honest, quite better then even my own English , as I was having difficulty speaking to him because I am a stinking bush bobo who can't even speak english anymore, but he invites us back to his house, he is a journalist and recently divorced and trying to raise his children and just struggling with life and believes that God sent us to come and help him...prepared?I think so, so the training turned out pretty well and we returned to the chapel to meet with the other 20+ missionaries and close and fly home to go and teaching 1 lesson in the complete dark at Mr. Sherriffs house :)
Thursday, off to the Kissy Chapel where Elder Stanford and I were invited once again to do a training on the Urgency of the work, so we were able to give that insruction and got to see my good ol pikin Elder Rogers, who just got pre-transfer transferred here to Freetown west tody so I am happy to go and see that boy sometime this week...>AGAIN:) but yeah, we flew home and managed to get on out to the field for the rest of the day and teach and find some sweet families, including the Kamara family, which is a sweet pa teacher and his wife and their 2 sons...mohamed and mohamed ;) oh yeah, thats right and they are all christian as well, booyeah!
Friday, weekly planning and a meeting with President Ostler to discuss some emergency transers that would be taking place all over the mission to prepare for the 8 of my MTC who are going home...poor president, losing 2 APS and 3 Zone leaders and 1 district leader, he is a bit stressed, but these measures are really helping to make it a smooth transition, so then on Saturday we had our stake conference start and we were invited to the afternoon session which was pretty well attended and I was happy to see lots of my friends and converts from the various wards I have served in in the area, so that was inspiring and always uplifts me. President Ostler spoke as well as President Charles so it was really uplfiting and inspiring, then Elder Stanford an I were sprinting up into the dark hills once again to preach the gospel!
Sunday, we had stake conference at the U building once again and it was very ill prepared and the chairs were not even half enough, so about 50 % of the people got inside and got to listen and watch, about 20 % got to sit outside and listen and the rest of the people, who stayed (half of them didn't) couldn't see or watch, so rather disappointing to be honest and as Elder Stanford and I sat on the stairs outside, not able to see or hear, we silently and almost verbally prayed that all the investigators we invited WOULDN'T Come hahaha...sad, I know. After, got a ride back to the mission office with the Ostler and we sat down and planned and organized the zone conferences, then Elder Stanford went and sent out assgigments to the various zone leaders, then back up to the hills of Dwarzak, where we got to go and teach a Mr. K. and his family, and he is a really intelligent but deep in apostasy and it was frustrating but we practiced patience with him as he tried to tell us that James 1:5 should be interpreted if anyone lacks "Christ" because Christ is Wisdom, am I right...WHAT ARE YOU BABBLING ABOUT?! hahaha oh these Born again people, I love them so much, they are so funny. Home again in the dark to teach the Sheriff family, love them so much!
Monday, today, played some sweet football, and my best buddy Sonaldo from Bo came all the way from Bo to spend the day with Elder Stanford and I because he knows I am leaving. So we got to play some wonderful and sweet football...which, if you don't know, I love a lot and yeah, then we got swarmas in town, and now I am just waiting for the man with your guys Africana (clothing) to show up, he is on the way now, so I hope that they are sweet :) I am going strong and not giving up, I am feeling light and full of the spirit and ever so happy as I go out to do the Lord's work. It is so sweet and watching the atonement take place in these people's lives, over 2 years time, over a years time, over a weeks time, it truly is just magical and beautiful and I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so much...I wish I could understand the atonement more and more and know that I never truly will, but that doesn't stop me from doing my best to try to understand more and more through my studies of the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is so sweet and has changed my life and taught me so much, I am about to finish it for my 5th time, but I don't think I will finish it before I get back, only in Helaman 12 right now, and I like to take my time, but I AM about to finish the Old Testament for the first time, finishing up Zecariah and then Malachi and then bam! but, yeah, life is great I love it...Take care family and friends!
Love,
Jesse
Elder Sumrak
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