Hello hello! this past two weeks has been strange! but entertaining.
First
of all We had a funeral Here for one of the members
grandmothers....well a lot of the members grandmother actually! She had a
bunch of kids who had kids who had kids so half of the population here
is her posterity. We were sad to hear she had passed she was a wonderful
woman but she was 107 after all. But for the funeral we had to clear
out an area for the funeral to take place, and since Mbukoni is 90%
volcanic stone and 10% dust that meant moving a lot rocks. And how
joyful we were when we discovered that under every other pebble was a
hellacious scorpion! So since we are optimists, Elder Wilson (the one of
the elders from nthongoni) and I decided that the one to kill the most
scorpions would Receive a fresh machungwe from the other (machungwe is a
Kenyan orange, but they aren't orange they are green.. so we have to
call them that. my last companion was very adamant about that
haha.). Because when life gives you scorpions you make
scorpion-aid..wait don't do that. We were working pretty fast and I was
at about 10 but mid way through I got one on my shirt by accident and
almost for stung haha so we called it good. I know what you're thinking,
"He almost died for a weird African orange?" the answer is yes but
that's just because machungwe are NICE. The serve went well though.
Also!
we had 2 Canadians in our zone of 8 Elders, and as it turns out, July
1st is Canada day!! and they insisted on celebrating to the utmost
degree. We went all out! We put up the flag, sang their funky anthem,
got some kid to prepare some chickens for us and had a ball. one of the
elders even somehow got CHEESE for this dish called poutine which is
basically chips with gravy and cheese. I don't know how he pulled that
one off. But the night was wonderful and the Kenyans made me a bread
necklace, i don't know why they did this but i was nonetheless
thankful. we also climbed one of those huge baobab trees which was a
good time. It was super strange however because i did absolutely nothing
for the 4th... I cheated on my own country for gravy and cheese..(Worth
it).
Sadly Elder Otika and Elder Wilson got transferred, BUT i
got a new companion named Elder Shongwe from south Africa and he is
great.
Love all of you to death! missing and praying for you all everyday.
Cheers-Elder Fuller
For letters and death threats.
P.O. Box 46162-00100
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
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