The first two pictures are jakaranda trees, purple in color that bloom in late spring here. Since it is the last time I will be seeing these trees i have decided that I needed to take some pictures of them. The last picture is quite typical to Africa, when you make a mistake, make the best of it. I can imagine what these guys thought when they ruptured this fire Hydrant by mistake "WOW, this thing is gushing large amounts of water at an incredible rate, good thing cuz my hands are really dirty".... and then later one asks the other how are we going to fix this? This is probably one of the reasons we mysteriously have no running water at our house for days on end. Gotta love it
This past week was great, every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday we have an opportunity to do service for Members and investigators. On Wednesday we did service at the Binta's, a part member family who we are sometimes fortunate enough to teach. We are basically clearing their Simba grass and weed infested backyard in preparation for a vegetable garden. It proved to be tough work, which is good because we are building up some nice hard hands. We know that it will be a blessing for them once we have completed the almost endless amount of work. On Saturday we went out to the villages and did service for the Mamoza family, there we are busy moving dirt into the foundation of the house that they are waiting to complete, that too hardens our hands a bit.
Yesterday we had 7 investigators come to church, and the other guys had 10 so there was a total of 17 investigators attending church yesterday, that's a pretty large amount of investigators to teach in the Gospel Principles class. It's a good thing that I taught the Sunday School class, and we also had our lesson on the spirit world, and funny enough tonight we are holding a Family Home Evening and we will be teaching about the spirit world.
On Friday we are holding a baptismal service, we are really excited for that! Hopefully more baptism's will follow this one, we have really put in a lot of work in this area. This week we plan on finding a whole slew of new investigators, we have struggled a bit in the past weeks finding new people, but we have been kept busy with all of the appointments we have set up.
I think the house you are thinking of making an offer on is a good house, it looks very nice. It's much like the house on Se 47th, as far as the rooms to bathroom ratio. However this home seems to have a bit more room inside. Whatever you feel is the best home for you two I am completely happy with.
Glad the Vandals finally won, for some reason they always, always have to make it hard for themselves to get a win.I guess that's why they are a fun team to watch, cuz if they win it comes down to the wire.
Love you all So MMUCH,
Elder Nielsen
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