Dumela!

So first off I’ll say sorry about last week. My comp. got sick on Monday so we had to email on Tuesday then suddenly we got a call from a member saying that this kid was deathly sick and had to go to the hospital so I didn’t have a chance to email my BIG email. The kid that was "Dying" was not even that bad he just had a high blood pressure and he seemed fine when we got there. So that's all good :)

So what happened last week? I kind of have a hard time remembering everything, it just blends all together. Time is going super fast! It’s been raining a lot lately because I guess we are in one of their rain seasons they have about 3 months where it just rains all the time.  And when I say it rains I mean IT RAINS! Remember that time a couple of months ago in Utah where is suddenly rained like crazy after the Weber county Fair? Yeah that was nothing compared to when it rains here!! I’ts windy and Everything gets sooooo drenched. I LOVE IT hahah!! Anyway though all that last week there was a member that had his roof blown off through that storm, his family was just about to fall asleep when it all of the sudden ripped off as if a tornado hit. His family was fine and his week old baby boy was ok as well so we rushed over and helped put the metal roof back on before it rained again. Luckily we got that roof back on before it started raining again. The whole village pitched in and helped out this member, the people here are so humble and willing to serve others.

We had a lot of fun moments during that week as well. Me and elder Mears had an Ice cream eating contest at KFC. We challenged each other who could each five ice cream cones the fastest..... I WON hahah. My comp. is like an older me! He could definitely be a Grange for sure. The missionaries in the boarding next to us are our zone leaders and they are soooooo funny! They don’t even try to be funny and they just make me laugh so hard every night! Elder Mulumba who leaves in a week and Elder Ikube who leaves in 3 months. They are both Power.

So our Backie (truck) broke down last week so we had to fix it, which meant we had to walk everywhere... Yeah that wasn’t too much fun. But I’m not getting fat. I’m actually still growing I think because my shirts are getting tighter... that or the washing machine is shrinking them... But I wanna think my muscles are just growing hahah :)

I have started to cook things lately like pasta, cakes, cookies etc. I actually enjoy cooking ha ha. I made no bake cookies and they were so good! It’s kind of hard to find the right ingredients around here though I don’t know if it’s because I don’t know where they are or if they are a different name :) But I’m not starving so don’t worry..... MOM...;)

We have had a lot of people come up to us that are wasted and want to talk to us. So that is always fun because for example last week there were these two guys that were super hammered and you could tell them anything and they you freak out! One guy was like What are those fluffy things in the clouds? IS it foam? and he asked me about the moon and i said it was Gods Fingernail and he started to freak out and was scared I guess hahah man messing with drunk people is the best ha ha!

Speaking about messing with things, there is this huge beehive on the outside of this guy’s house underneath the gutters. Yeah we messed with those. Splashed water threw rocks, in the end only Elder Muumba go stung no one else though haha. We would splash and dash we called it :)

So that all happened last week :)

This week wasn’t as exciting as last week. It kind of went slow because a lot of people canceled on us.. But that is just mission life :) hahah So we just found things to do :)

so this week it rained like crazy Once again! We found a lot of frogs and i put the frogs into a pot of water and put them on the stove in Mulumbas and Ikubes boarding... Don’t worry I didn’t turn on the heat. We went back into our boarding and waited and nothing happened. Right when we went back to check to see what was going on we noticed that elder mulumba was walking to the stove. So we just waited outside and watched. Suddenly he jumped and he yelled like a little school girl! hahaha He ran into his room and slammed the door hahahah it was the best thing ever! Just imagine this 28 Year old African man doing this hahah!! I guess around here they HATE Frogs!

We did some service this week and it reminded me or home, because we were working with pigs. We made a new pen for the pigs into the mountain side. So that was some fun service we did. We also did gardening at the Grandmas house (gogo, that’s what they call grandma and grandpas)

It once again rained but this time is was right during general conference so it was supper loud! The Lighting and thunder was crazy!! Then it started Hailing and that was crazy too!! The weather here is like Utah... Bipolar... one day it’s about 115 Degrees then within hours it raining and cold! I love it!

We played soccer against a bunch of kids on the really green nice field by the lake. I don’t have my camera with me at this time I left it in the backie so If I have time I’ll run out grab it then hopefully I can send some pictures but yeah that was a lot of fun!

So as we tracted this week we had some crazy things happen to us! We had a guy that we tried talking to and all he wanted to do was bible bash. He was like what can you tell me about Jesus Christ at your young age! Every time we tried to talk to him he would just cut us off haha. We then proved him wrong and he just sat there in silence for about 2 seconds then just started going off again. HAHA then we just said ok Entante have a good day and we did what it says in MARK 16 verse 13 If you wanna know go read that scripture hahah :) the next day we ran into a member and he was talking about how his dad was a witch doctor and that he had been struck by lighting by another witch doctor. I guess the witch doctors around here control the rain and lighting! He was telling us crazy stories about his dad and what he could do. He told us that one day his dad was telling him that something bad and life changing will happen in two hours. He then went outside and watched his dad crossing the street then got hit by a car. Man people here has crazy power but Not the True and Right power! And the guy telling the stories does not lie! He is like a very spiritual guy in the church. So yeah there answers your questions about witch doctors.

General conference for us was yesterday. Man its crazy how general conference is like the super bowl on a mission. I have never paid that much attention to general conference I love it!! It was so sick. Especially the bishop that got called to be in the 12 Man those guys are powerful! I love everyone’s talk especially Monson’s. Short easy to understand and powerful. That guy is a fighter for sure! He is getting old though. Spirit is willing and strong but his flesh is getting weak. I thought he was going down. That whole thing was crazy! A lot of family and Sabbath throughout the talks though.

I loved what Uchtdorf) "This gospel is so simple a child can grasp it, But it will take and eternity to understand it" Man that guy is Power!!

This gospel is so simple and it so powerful. It’s crazy how the church members have such an effect on this gospel. The members are the one who pushes this work forward. Without the members here we would not be having a baptism this week. I love what this gospel brings to my life and the people around me! I love my family and all my friends you guys are the best!! Have a great week!

Sala Hantle (stay well)

Elder Grange