Patience is a virtue...right?

hey everyone,
this week has been fun you could say. the spirit isnt here and my companion hates me cause i wont let him turn in numbers that are incorrect. great combo i know. so i just study my book of mormon and pray a lot. he likes to now sleep all day and the work is slightly hindered which really makes me upset that someone would be so stubborn to hurt the work. owell his agency.
we have been finding the real desire of some of our investigators. apparently the last missionary gave out some money sometimes and that is why people were accepting lessons. so we are in a tight spot with that one also.
sacrament meeting is a joke here. everyone will come for the beggining of the year but not for any other time. we had record attendance this week but last week record low. people are funny and think they will be saved for repenting once a year but the sad truth is they never will. ha ha then a man started taking photos in sacrament meeting for money. i almost snapped his camera in half. but i kept my calm and talked with him after the meeting. he tried to chastise me for not letting him do it. i just laughed and walked him in to see the branch president. people can be so dumb. owell.
well i am doing my best and getting a little muscle from the weight bench we have. i can curl what elder rogers benches by the way. ha ha just and insight. but we are doing great and i love living with elder rogers. i hate the music outside. especially on new years when it never stopped. but all is well.
sorry no pics this week. i am on the crappy computer today.
love
elder lamb

Happy New Year!!!

hey everyone,
well this has been a crazy year. a lot has gone by and a lot has been done. like traveling on a little boat in the middle of the ocean and chopping snakes in some members house. i love everything that i have done and looking back i wouldnt trade many of the decisions i made.
i am doing great here in sierra leone. my mom says that i have a funny accent now and that i talk even more funny than before. which is hard when you are from spanish fork. anyways. it was amazing to hear from my family and to have thier encouraging voices. you never know how much you can miss someones voice. it is much different from reading emails or texts.
the work is once again great. my companion and i had a small confusion but everything is fine now. we have a lot of people to teach and never enough time to do it. they people here are really funny sometimes and i am having a great time serving them.
one thing i was thinking about that my mom sent to me. the line is "obedience is happiness." as i was pondering this i thought to my self how relaxed and happy i was when i knew that everything i am doing is right. well almost everything. it brings a peace to our minds knowing that you are safe from wrong and other things. it is a feeling of warmth that jesus and god are pleased with you. i love this thought. when we are obedient god is happy with us. what else matters in the world except for that?
just a thought for your new year and your resolutions. set goals that will make you stretch and keep checking up on them. dont just let it end in february like you normally do. set a goal for eternity. not a year.
love
elder lamb
happy new year!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures of Christmas in Africa!!

I sent two snowmen to Elder Lamb. Here he is posing with one of them with his musical Christmas tie I found at the Dollar StoreTucugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary - he told us that Animal Planet did a show on the Sanctuary
This is the restaurant that they ate pizza at for their Christmas Zone meal - he said it was"absolutely beautiful. it was out on a balcony over looking the pool
and the city with the ocean in the back ground. wow!!"

Learning to chum the krio....

ow di bodi?
yeah well they say it with a british indian accent here. it is really funny to hear the children say white man. it is not easy to chum the krio. (talk in krio). some of the people speak english but most just talk in krio. the lord has really blessed me with the gift of tongues and i have been able to understand very well and talk pretty good. krio is a mixture of many languages and it encompases english shortened with no past or present tense. so instead of us you say we. we always ask do you know we? ha ha i am getting used to it though.
the work is blessed here though. we have many good investigators who are baptism material. the branch president is great and is a great strength to us.
i love the work and my apartment is small but very nice. i even have running water half the time. the national power is run in segments. usually we get lucky like every 3rd day it comes on for 12 hours. if we are not lucky then we just run the generator. i prefer the generator because it kills the noise from the night club that is open every night. they love music here and there is always someone blasting it. the night club blares their music from 4pm to 2am. at 5 am the muslims put on the loud speaker so everyone can here their morning prayers. it is very annoying and i have just barely adapted to falling asleep with the loud noises all the time. i guess i will get used to it.
elder rogers and i have been enjoying what a mission should be like. there are many little things that satan has taken control of with other elders but i am now blessed to have other elders who are doing right so i dont have to stand alone anymore. i love the work and i am excited to go and climb the mountain every other day.
it is very beautiful here. i would describe it as a giant volcanic mountain sticking out of the earth with the ocean next to it. the people live on the mountain side and errosian is the enemy. although it is dry season now so dust is the new enemy. my shoes get dirty in like 2 min from walking outside. there are no taxis or motorbikes going up the mountain so its all by foot. we have some very dedicated members though that i know that i will come to love.
the funniest difference from here and liberia is that the women dont care about modesty. if you go to the stream you will see the public bath. naked people are everywhere and no one cares. owell.
the work is great here and there is a challenge and blessing with most of the people being muslim. we get to teach them correctly the first time about jesus christ and there is little corruption from other pastors and things.
anyways i have to go now. enjoy your week and keep asking questions.
no more sister wires so the pictures might have to stop coming.
osh ya. (sorry in krio)
love
elder lamb

Hard to say good-bye....

wow what a story today. ha ha
well it all started at 6 this morning . the mauldins came and picked my large bag up. we went to the small airport this time. we waited for the wires to come with elder echi-aboli to come with me. they finally arrived and we made our way inside after saying goodbye to my beloved couples the wires and mauldins. they have done so great for me and i will miss them alot. owell its time to go.
so we walk inside and the lady says i have to pay 100 us dollars for my extra backpack. well i talked her down to 60 and she took it. ha ha welcome to liberia.
we then proceded to the waiting room. we got bored after 3 hours. the plane finally landed. we went outside to watch. they filled up the gas and then hooked it up to a mitsubishi SUV and pulled it on the the runway. no joke. the plane is best described by Ron White in the blue collar comedy tour. "a pack of gum with wings" it was really small. but i managed inside. we landed in freetown and the island airport again . due to our 3 hour delay we were late. we chartered a whole nissan pathfinder to fly to the ferry dock. we jumped out and payed and ran down the dock screaming to not shut the door yet. the waited for us and we made it on the ferry. it was a miracle of God.
we sat in first class and made it across the bay. we sat and waited for 2 hours waiting for the AP's to come and get us. during our 2 hours a drunk man got in a fight with a lebanese man. the lebanese man beat him really good.
the AP's finally came and they took me straight to my new apartment. it is nice and right next to a club so there is always music playing. owell.
i am now in wellington branch freetown sierra leone. it was hard to say goodbye but somehow i was able to let go without crying yesterday. all is well and i am going to love it here.
well i have to go now.
see ya next week.
love
elder lamb
Airport in Liberia

Leaving on a jet plane...

The official word came today that Elder Lamb is being transferred out of Liberia. He will fly out Monday morning to go to Sierra Leone.

Sister Wire was kind enough to send some nice thoughts that I would like to include:

By now you have probably heard that your Elder will be on his way to Sierra Leone on Monday Morning. I was to see him today to weigh his luggage but he was so busy eating at three different members homes that I told him I'd see him tomorrow.He is to take one luggage that weighs only 40-45 pounds and then a backpack the extra luggage he will leave here and Pres will take it to Sierra Leone for him when he returns next week. So he will be there for Christmas he'll be taking our hearts with him but I know the Pres. prays about these things and I know his strength is needed there, He is really a good Missionary and the Pres. praised him greatly in our last meeting before he left. He brings HONOR to your name.

...He is a joy...some times we just need to grow and those around us aren't ready for the next level! He is more than ready. He's serious about the work and not caught up in "this will be fun" Just one mature great Man!

Elder Lamb has enjoyed his time in Liberia and I have appreciated all that the Wires have done for him. It will be sad to have him leave them, but I know he will be in good hands where ever he may go!!

Everyday is an adventure in Africa

how you comin on?
ha ha liberia was the best ever this week. on wednesday we had our elders thanksgiving. we learned how to make tortillas. which is super easy by the way. played a bunch of games, watched the work and the glory, and my personal favorite: had a huge thanksgiving dinner prepared by our amazing couple missionarys. they really outdid themselves and i am so grateful for thier sacrifice for us here.
the next day we had zone conference where we had the opportunity to watch the priesthood session while president squires was doing missionary interviews. i loved it. elder scott gave a very powerfull talk and i liked it a lot. afterwards president squires gave us some instructions and we all ate and went home. there is a new rule for us now. we have to be in by 6 instead of 7. this hinders the work in my area since i have a 45 min commute one way. so we lost another opportunity for a lesson. but it is the rule so we must obey.
president squires is really cracking down and me, i love it because it is what needed to happen.

we had the opportunity to have the ap's come and stay in the apartment. it was my first time to meet elder michael. he is a great missionary and i enjoyed staying with him. for elder ukpong it was a great reunion and we talked a lot about the good old days. it was really nice.
i have learned how to make tortillas so i started experiamenting with an african style breakfast burrito. still working on perfecting it but thats what experaments are for.

i want to say thank you to everyone. the support i have recieved is amazing. it has helped me so much get through hard times. and i want to expecially thank my mother who is so worried all the time i still dont know how she allowed the lord to take me to africa. she understands the blessings and protection involved or else i would of had to say no. ha ha but the lord has blessed me here through you guys and i express my deep appreciation and thank you all.
love
elder lamb