~OOPS!! Sorry this one was a week late!! Sometimes my brain doesn't work :)
hey everyone,
liberia is doing fine this week. i am doing good and havent lost much more wieght. i am trying to work out every morning in an effort to put some back on. so we will see what happens.
sorry i didnt kill any snakes this week. just one more huge spider outside our door. speaking of doors. we have to make sure ours is locked with 3 or 4 locks and dead bolts now. the elders in duala were robbed on friday. the people that live around them were paid off and they let a group come and rob them. they bent the bars on elder seawrights window and shoved a kid inside. then the kid grabbed 3 cameras and all the elders money and a few cd players and stuff then snuck out. all during broad daylight while everyone was out working. so now we have to be extra careful. our apartment is better and we have a guard plus other people living around is in the same complex. they like us and know we give them extra food and stuff so they wouldnt let anything happen. also our 3 guard dogs make a lot of noise.
the church is slowly starting to change here and we are trying to make things like they should.
elder mogotsi goes home on sep 14th. i will then get a new companion. he is a great elder and has taught me a lot. it is sad to see him go but his 2 years are up and it is someone elses turn.
elder golden of the seventy will be coming to visit us next week. so we have to go home and clean our apartment today. it should be a great experience to recieve instruction from him.
i am doing good and the work is slowly moving forward. we have 5 people lined up to be baptised on saturday so if all goes to plan we should have plenty of work to do with finding more able people to teach. we try to find worthy people and it is hard here with the law of chastity problem. no worries, the lord is preparing someone and we just have to find them.
i hope all is well and i love hearing from everyone.
love
elder lamb
Monday, September 1, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Because my computer expert is in Africa....
If the videos don't work - someone let me know - please! I really don't know how come they worked today and didn't 2 weeks ago. I did the exact same thing!
Where is the Spanish Fork accent???
Sister Wire said he got cut off at the end, but she sent it so we could hear him talking "African". We put this on repeat so it played over and over and over - and Amy Lyn could not stop laughing!! He only has TWO QUICK seconds to talk - but it is so good to see him!
Weather forecast: Cloudy and less rain
hello everyone,
africa has been nice this week. the rain has let up a little and we have been enjoying the clouds that dont pour on us. this week we were able to attend zone conference in paynesville. it was so nice to not have to go and catch transport. sister wire had to use our kitchen to cook lunch and she said it is cleaner than hers so we did great.
sister squires talked about using our money wisely and what we should be using it for. then elder gibson talked about better scripture study. then elder mogotsi talked about forgiveness. but my favorite talk was president squires. he talked about how we are the pioneers for liberia. right now the church isnt running like it should. it is quite different from utah. the elders are now in charge of making sure everything is running good. it is weird to go to the relief society president and teach her. or to tell the elders quorum president how things should be done and to instruct him. i think things would run fine if the people would actually do what we ask of them. they all like to make excuses and no one ever does anything they are asked unless you piggyback them the whole time. the elders are the one in charge of home teaching, visiting teaching, teaching sunday school, primary, young womens, and whoever else doesnt come to teach. we are supposed to have p.e.c in the morning. the branch president and us are the only ones that come. the first and 2nd counselor always come late to church and it feels like the branch president and us are the only ones doing anything. but we are doing our best and no effort is wasted.
in liberia there is no address system. you just ask people to help you find someone. they say a broad area and you go search for them or have the person take you to thier house. sometimes it makes contacting hard. usually the people we contact lie to our face and tell us they will come to church then we never see them again.
me and mogotsi are trying to work hard. mogotsi is very homesick and i am dragging him out and then he is fine. as long as we get into the field he is great. when we come home he is slacking and trying to sleep so he wont think about home.
he leaves on september 15th. it is sad to know that he will be gone. he is truly a great missionary and has served and is serving the lord well. we are working hard and have a nice part member family that we are planning on baptising on the 30th.
the main problem we have with investigators is the law of chastity. whether it is fornication or modesty. they are intertwined. i am so grateful for the knowledge i gained from the church so that i didnt end up like a lot of the people here. here if you get a girl pregnant it is no problem. you just switch girls or move in with the girl.
we just had our branch mission leader released. he was breaking the law of chastity then coming to the gospel essentials class and teaching the investigators about it. so we talked with the branch president and now we are starting to iron out the problems here.
all is well and there is way to much to do. we cant fit it in the day and i love staying busy.
i hope all is well and thank all of you for everything. especially you frank for getting my dad a job and keeping my mom sane. all is well and dont worry i will be fine.
love
elder lamb
africa has been nice this week. the rain has let up a little and we have been enjoying the clouds that dont pour on us. this week we were able to attend zone conference in paynesville. it was so nice to not have to go and catch transport. sister wire had to use our kitchen to cook lunch and she said it is cleaner than hers so we did great.
sister squires talked about using our money wisely and what we should be using it for. then elder gibson talked about better scripture study. then elder mogotsi talked about forgiveness. but my favorite talk was president squires. he talked about how we are the pioneers for liberia. right now the church isnt running like it should. it is quite different from utah. the elders are now in charge of making sure everything is running good. it is weird to go to the relief society president and teach her. or to tell the elders quorum president how things should be done and to instruct him. i think things would run fine if the people would actually do what we ask of them. they all like to make excuses and no one ever does anything they are asked unless you piggyback them the whole time. the elders are the one in charge of home teaching, visiting teaching, teaching sunday school, primary, young womens, and whoever else doesnt come to teach. we are supposed to have p.e.c in the morning. the branch president and us are the only ones that come. the first and 2nd counselor always come late to church and it feels like the branch president and us are the only ones doing anything. but we are doing our best and no effort is wasted.
in liberia there is no address system. you just ask people to help you find someone. they say a broad area and you go search for them or have the person take you to thier house. sometimes it makes contacting hard. usually the people we contact lie to our face and tell us they will come to church then we never see them again.
me and mogotsi are trying to work hard. mogotsi is very homesick and i am dragging him out and then he is fine. as long as we get into the field he is great. when we come home he is slacking and trying to sleep so he wont think about home.
he leaves on september 15th. it is sad to know that he will be gone. he is truly a great missionary and has served and is serving the lord well. we are working hard and have a nice part member family that we are planning on baptising on the 30th.
the main problem we have with investigators is the law of chastity. whether it is fornication or modesty. they are intertwined. i am so grateful for the knowledge i gained from the church so that i didnt end up like a lot of the people here. here if you get a girl pregnant it is no problem. you just switch girls or move in with the girl.
we just had our branch mission leader released. he was breaking the law of chastity then coming to the gospel essentials class and teaching the investigators about it. so we talked with the branch president and now we are starting to iron out the problems here.
all is well and there is way to much to do. we cant fit it in the day and i love staying busy.
i hope all is well and thank all of you for everything. especially you frank for getting my dad a job and keeping my mom sane. all is well and dont worry i will be fine.
love
elder lamb
I have the Light of Christ
Here is Elder Skinny Lamb!! It is really hard to hear - so turn up your speakers. Sister Wire sent a video 2 weeks ago and I could not get them on the blog. Maybe now I will be able to. He only has TWO seconds to talk.
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Itsy Bitsy Spider......
In response to Amy Lyn and her many questions, Spencer said: yes we have pigs. yes we have toilet paper. yes there are freakin huge bees . the spiders are freakin big enough to eat sadie
"the spiders i have seen get up to 8 inches from leg to leg. that is my guess. the wasp bee things are as big as my big toe. no bacon. just pigs and the meat they chop off and bbq."
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