Dearest Daniel,
Between answering Dad's questions and mine, we are learning lots about what you are experiencing there. Is it ever cold? Where you need a blanket or jacket?
One of the mishmommas said your comp is great. It helps to have someone know the area.
I am thinking of you lots.
We miss you and are proud of your accomplishments.
Here are some quotes I ran across this week.
Keep on keeping on and stay strong!
Robert D Hales said in his conf talk this year, "Many hear the word disciple and think that it means only 'follower' but genuine discipleship is a state of being. This suggests more than studying and applying a list of individual attributes. Disciples live so that the characteristics of Christ are woven into the fiber of their beings as into a spiritual tapestry."
We love you so much and pray for you every day!!
Love,ma
Hey! yeah sometimes in the mornings it gets a little nippy but i have a shuka that keeps me nice and cozy.
yeah he is a good elder but he is going home this transfer! i am killing him! So i will get a new guy here in a minute and he will have to rely on me for directions. Love you so much! miss y'all a ton! I will try to come up with something to write home about so you guys can have a better idea of what it is like here, i know y'all are in the dark right now haha.
Love-Elder Fuller
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| Hey wait! Is that a whale skeleton? Holy mother of pearl! |
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| So tell us about it! |
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| You gotta lotta 'splainin to do sir! |
Elder Teron Tucker
Monday, June 12, 2017
Pizza, Ice Cream and Lava
This week we had zone conference and so we had Chyulu Elders for a few days which is always super fun! I know you are here for some crazy stories from Kenya so I'll do my best.
Story number one: The floor is lava!
So Elder Fuller and I were reunited for a few days since he was transferred to Chyulu. While he was here he stayed at his old stomping ground of Bamburi. One of the nights, we started a pretty legit game of the floor is lava. I survived and Elder Fuller Survived but our companions didn't end up making it. Randomly both of us stared at the ground and jumped on the couches and screamed the floor is lava, then proceeded to climb from the bottom floor upstairs to the bathroom in the guest bedroom to activate the "drainage switch" It was very intense and required some very precarious situations over boiling Lava.
Story number two: Pizza, a blessing to the world
So in Kenya pretty much the only place we can get pizza is this place called pizza inn. However it is super expensive so we have to wait till Tuesday to get it cause they have an awesome deal on Tuesdays. The other catch is these shops are only in big cities, so Chyulu doesn't get the chance for pizza cause it is straight bush. Anywho so it worked out that we had zone conference on a Tuesday, so all the Chyulu elders and me and my comp went to get pizza, much happiness was shared, and much pizza was destroyed.
As for teaching stories we didn't get many appointments this week, because with zone conference we were really only in our area for two days, so we were meeting all people we needed to strengthen and so not many fun stories on that side of things.
Anyways, have a good week, till next time, bike fast take chances, watch out for mangoes, they can be hazardous.
Elder Tucker
*Mom has looked through Elder Tucker's companions older posts but I can't find the story about Mangos in his words. So here is a paraphrase as to why Mangoes are hazardous. Missionaries are told to wash and at times boil the outsides of all fruit. The missionaries noticed that the Mangoes on the tree looked good. They did just what Teron would do and polished the germs off, ate a Mango and were very very sick. Teron's companion taught him about the Mangoes so Teron did not have to have the same experience.
(I think Elder T was referring to this part of Dan's experience earlier in his mission on March 20th.)
looking for elephants. Despite how big they are it can be hard to find
them in such vast spaces of land (we only found foot prints and what
they had for dinner). Anyway! Out of the blue my stomach started hurting
like crazy, It felt like a low-land gorilla through a car battery right
at my navel, It got so bad that I had to sit down and pray. i prayed
and asked the lord to relieve the pain. As soon as i finished the
prayer, i stood up, walked a couple steps and then threw up all over my
new sandals (eww). My stomach stopped hurting but the whole trek home
and for the rest of the night i was vomiting like a garden hose on full
blast. Elder Estimer started doing the same thing that night, We
narrowed it down to the fact that we were the only ones who ate some
mangos that morning and we didn't wash them. So people moral of the
story is PLEASE wash your mangos!Monday, June 12, 2017
Pizza, Ice Cream and Lava
This week we had zone conference and so we had Chyulu Elders for a few days which is always super fun! I know you are here for some crazy stories from Kenya so I'll do my best.
Story number one: The floor is lava!
So Elder Fuller and I were reunited for a few days since he was transferred to Chyulu. While he was here he stayed at his old stomping ground of Bamburi. One of the nights, we started a pretty legit game of the floor is lava. I survived and Elder Fuller Survived but our companions didn't end up making it. Randomly both of us stared at the ground and jumped on the couches and screamed the floor is lava, then proceeded to climb from the bottom floor upstairs to the bathroom in the guest bedroom to activate the "drainage switch" It was very intense and required some very precarious situations over boiling Lava.
Story number two: Pizza, a blessing to the world
So in Kenya pretty much the only place we can get pizza is this place called pizza inn. However it is super expensive so we have to wait till Tuesday to get it cause they have an awesome deal on Tuesdays. The other catch is these shops are only in big cities, so Chyulu doesn't get the chance for pizza cause it is straight bush. Anywho so it worked out that we had zone conference on a Tuesday, so all the Chyulu elders and me and my comp went to get pizza, much happiness was shared, and much pizza was destroyed.
As for teaching stories we didn't get many appointments this week, because with zone conference we were really only in our area for two days, so we were meeting all people we needed to strengthen and so not many fun stories on that side of things.
Anyways, have a good week, till next time, bike fast take chances, watch out for mangoes, they can be hazardous.
Elder Tucker
*Mom has looked through Elder Tucker's companions older posts but I can't find the story about Mangos in his words. So here is a paraphrase as to why Mangoes are hazardous. Missionaries are told to wash and at times boil the outsides of all fruit. The missionaries noticed that the Mangoes on the tree looked good. They did just what Teron would do and polished the germs off, ate a Mango and were very very sick. Teron's companion taught him about the Mangoes so Teron did not have to have the same experience.
(I think Elder T was referring to this part of Dan's experience earlier in his mission on March 20th.)
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