4-Wheelin African Style

This is the snake they ran over - story in the blog - Casey is supposed to be identifying it for us

What is the hold up Casey??

River in Grafton/Freetown area

Hey everyone,

Well things are going good this week. Right now I am sitting in president squires chair using his computer to email. I hope I never have to sit in a chair like this again. The other elders are making a nice joke about it. It’s a nice chair at least. Plus there is a/c so I am enjoying.

We got to ride in the truck with elder seawright driving. Since it is rainy season there were a lot of big mud holes and stuff. It was really fun and reminded me of home when me and my dad would go out in the s-10 or jeep and just drive around. Instead this time if the truck died we would be in much bigger trouble. But we made it alive and ran over 2 huge snakes. Then we got out taking pictures of them. They are really good pictures and really big snakes. I should have sent one I think, unless my mom chickens out. But I know that my brothers and dad will absolutely love them.

We arrived safe after a nice zone conference with Elder Dickson of the 70. He is an amazing person and very normal and kind. He gave a wonderful instruction about opening your mouth and always adding more families to your teaching pool, Along with many other things that I learned from him. It was a wonderful time and I loved every minute. His wife reminded me of my Grandma Lamb and made me kind of homesick a little actually. But I am over it now and still focused, somewhat anyways. Ha-ha.

One of our member’s fathers died the other day so we went to the funeral. I will emphasize 3 letters for a funeral here. F U N. they just play music and dance and do all kinds of fun stuff. They don’t really mourn at all and just have a good time. They play loud music and dance. Then they have the body taken to the cemetery and that’s about it. It is really strange.

Well we just got done with our meeting with President Squires. Afterwards Sister Squires fixed a wonderful meal for us and I really enjoyed it. We said goodbye to the Petersons who are going home on Wednesday. They are really fun and will be missed a lot. I will miss them but its ok I will meet them next year. Ha-ha. Well we have a lot of new missionaries who are making me kind of trunky and a few just went home which makes me kind of trunky also. But it’s ok I still have my focus; Not enough focus to remember where I wrote down my scriptures for the week so sorry you won’t get any today.

Well the work is much and I am doing it greatly and cannot come down so I will see you all next week. I hope you enjoy the snake pictures.

Love Elder lamb

Sunset in Bo

Pictures of snacks - drinks - and a bridge

YUM!!!!! Elder Lamb eating Kanda

(which is cow skin - double yum!!)

Elder Lamb out teaching in Bo during the rainy season
Fancy bridge - huh?

Nice advertisement! Makes you want to run right out and have a Coke

Converts and missionaries

New Converts???

Elder Gifford, Elder Lamb and Elder Gunderson

Elder Lamb with two of the best Missionaries that came home last Thursday

**Elder Rogers (Cedar City, Utah) and Elder Lamb**

** Elder Burns (Highland, Utah) and Elder Lamb**

Moving on a motorcycle - with luggage

Hey everyone,
Things are going good this week and I am just working hard like always. Being a zone leader aint to bad actually. I just have to take numbers and compile reports and make sure the other elders are doing there best and being obedient and stuff. I get to travel to Freetown next week and stay with the assistants so we can have what’s called a zone council. Where the zone leaders come together and discuss how to help the zone with president and the assistants there. It should be fun
On Friday elder Dickson of the 70 should be coming out to Bo for a zone conference and district fireside. It should be a lot of fun. I am kind of nervous and excited because as a zone leader I get to have an interview with him one on one. It should be really cool for me. But I am just nervous that I will do some thing retarded liked I normally am. Ha-ha well we will see I guess.
Rainy season is in full effect now. It rains quite often now. Not as bad as Liberia last year but just a little bit of rain now and then. It sure makes washing your clothes hard when they never dry. But I am doing my best and I just iron them to speed up the process. It is kind of funny and sad at the same time.
In church on Sunday the man giving the opening prayer got up and asked everyone to stand up to pray. The branch president had to get up and stop him and tell everyone to sit down and pray. It was rather funny. Then in elders quorum we asked what people like about the church. One man said home teaching. Then the teacher asked him if he does his home teaching. The man said. "Don’t ask me. No stop." Then the whole class just busted up because we all know that no one wants to do home teaching here. We can hardly get them to church. Ha-ha.
My foot is getting much better now with my steroid cream. It should be well in a week or 2. I am working out like crazy now so maybe it will help. Ha-ha. Sister Squires said it wouldn’t be enough to get to my muscles really so I don’t think it will do anything.
I had to move on Friday. I have one big suitcase a backpack and a small suitcase. I carried the backpack and big suitcase on the back of a motorcycle!!!! It was a long ride and my abs are killing me. I just held on for dear life and prayed that I would arrive alive. And somehow I did. Ha-ha.
Well we don’t have a fridge because the old one broke. But Elder Peterson is on one of his last runs out to Bo before he goes home so hopefully it will come today. It should be a nice one since we have good light almost all day now. Our generator is kind of sketchy now but I am a pretty good repair man so I got it running again the other day. Just no maintenance out here.
Well here are your scriptures for the week:
Ether, 3 all, 4:6-11,17-19, 7:23, 8:22-26, 9:28, 10:19, 12:3-4, 23, 26-27, 34, 38-41, 14:18, 15:2, 19, 34,
Moroni 1:2-4, 6 all, 7:4-8, 13-17, 39, 40-41, 44-48, 8all, 9:4, 6, 22, 25, 10 all.
And now I am done again!!!
I hope that my scriptures have lead you to a deep love of the scriptures which I now have. And I hope that you will help me to stay strong in it when I get back. Thank you all for your support and keep up the letters. I love reading them.
Love
Elder lamb

Transfers = Same city + old apartment

Hey everyone,

Well the work is going sweet out here in Bo. The line is down so I am using word to type this.

Well here is the big news of the day: Elder lamb is going on transfer again. Yup! That’s right. So I am staying in the same town and zone and I am going back to the first apartment I was in with Elder Echi-aboli - The Sewa Road apartment and I am in the Sewa Road Branch. We meet at the same chapel that I am currently meeting and it is pretty much just the neighbor branch.

Elder Yardley is in my apartment with a Sierra Leonean. Elder Borwah is getting a new American elder. Don’t know who yet. And my companion is Elder Muthwa from South Africa. He was there in my first apartment on mission in Liberia. Now we are companions. He is going home on my birthday. Feb 1st. Not much has really happened besides that.

Well not much is going on this week. I went and did a service project for my new branch president. You can just call me Edward scissor hands because I am a bush cutting machine. We just trimmed his bushes and had a good time.

Elder Gunderson is leaving for Liberia. Now I have no one to update me on twilight and Disney songs. It’s ok, I am excited to be in the same apartment as a new American and to see someone with huge eyes like I used to have.

Well the work is sweet and I am sure that Elder Yardley will let the congosar network know what I am just going to tell you anyways. The Lord wants me to be a zone leader for some crazy reason. I don’t know how to explain it except Isaiah 55:8-9. Well I think it is 8 and 9. Hopefully I can give my best and that is good enough. I should learn a lot I guess. Ha-ha! well now everyone knows and there are no surprises. Ha-ha!

In the next few weeks you should see a large influx of pictures. I sent all my cds full of pictures home with Elder Rogers so you should get some new pics soon.

Here are your scriptures at least.
Romans 12:1-2, 12:21, 13:8, 14:17, 15:1,
Acts 26:8, 28,
Colossians 1:9-16, 2:8, 3 all.
4th Nephi 1:12, 15, 24,
Mormon 1:19, 2:19, 3:3, 9, 17-22, 5:13-15, 22-24, 6:16-19, 7 all, 8:24-41, 9:20-21, 27-29,
Ether 2:3, 14, 17-18, 23

Well that’s about it. I leave for my former apartment on Friday. I get to carry my suitcase on the back of a motorcycle so that should be interesting. Haha! Well I love you all and hope that you can all write me some letters sometime. Haha

Love Elder Lamb

Misc Info and the Congosar Network

**Spencer’s “disease”: yup I got my medicine and it is slowly going down. I get to take steroid cream. Haha! Don’t worry I will be fine.
**Well I should be in good shape if I finish my mission in the mountains. Looks like I will be in Bo until next year maybe. Haha!!
**I told him that the YW are going to read the Book of Mormon in 100 days to pass off Personal Progress: sweet. I am trying to finish it right now. But looking into the future I won’t have much extra time to read now so maybe one more before I come home.
**Funerals in Africa: you don’t want to know it is pure insanity.
** I asked him what is congosar network: that is you and all the other moms little network of information. Elder Rogers thought it was funny. (I don’t think Elder Rogers is all that funny!! But no one tell him until I get Spencer’s pictures!! And I still think it is some African word he isn’t telling me the true meaning of!)
**And because I don’t know all of this mission “lingo’: Me and Muthwa are the zone leaders. We are in charge of the Bo zone. aka 12 elders. A district leader is in charge of temporal things. he is in charge of the house and only the elders in the house. Zone Leaders have more responsibility and have to instruct and teach the elders of the zone.

Two years are up...for some....not for Elder Lamb

Elder Lamb and Elder Albright (from Idaho)

Hey everyone,

Everything is going good. My feet disease thing is fine and Sister Squires found me some medicine that should work so don’t worry. Things are going pretty good now.

They just split my branch into 2. The Njagboima Branch and the new London branch. I go to church at 8-11 and 12-3. Yeah lots of fun I guess. Ha-ha!! Well I will talk with President to see if I have to stay the whole time. Most likely I will. But that’s ok and I don’t mind too much. Church is more of a game to make sure everything goes ok anyways. It should be fine.

Well on a very sad note, one of my best investigators, Brother Moses Sesay, passed away on Saturday. It was very sad because he was doing so well. But its ok, he is taking the lessons from much better teachers now and we just gotta get his wife to understand and continue on. It was sad for me but I have the gospel light so it’s not that bad.

The Petersons go home here pretty soon so that is really sad also. I got to see them on Saturday as they brought some things out for the new branch. It was nice and we helped them assemble a few things. They are really nice and I will miss them, but the Jones are still here and are getting to know the area small. Ha-ha!! I got some new ties called jatalas. They are the African best I guess. So I will come home and bluff with them I guess. Ha-ha!!

I have sent all my pictures home with Elder Rogers, who leaves next Wednesday. So everyone should be seeing a ton of pics here pretty soon. I kinda wanted to make my mom wait but she is too antsy so I have to send them. Hopefully they make it alive or else there will be no pics. Ha-ha!!

Elder Rogers one of my best friends is going home along with many others next week. Which means transfer time is here again. We will find out on Saturday so I will let you know what happens next week. I don’t think I am going anywhere, but I never know that. Revelation can be very far from what I think so who knows.

Here are your scriptures:
*3rd Nephi 15:9, 16-24, 16;7, 18:18-21, 32, 19 all, how many times does he say to kneel while praying in chapter 19?, 21;4, 9, 23:1, 5, 24:8-10, 25:5-6, 26:9, 27:5-8, 16-21, 27:33,
*Galatians 1:6-12, 2;21, 4:7, 18, 28, 5:1, 13-16, 19-26, 6:7,
*Romans 1:16, 2:7, 13, 16, 3:23, 5:3-5, 6:23, 8:6, 16-17
well that should be good for you.

Enjoy the picture of me and Elder Albright right before he left. Wow! it’s been a while now. Ha-ha!!
Love,
Elder Lamb