20 September 2010

Hey everyone, thanks for the birthday wishes. I hope you guys are doing fine at home. This week Elder Maloni and I did a lot of work. And too much of it was in the rain. It started on wednesday when we were beaten severely by buckets of rain as we rode from one side of our area to see a guy who on the saturday before disappointed us for an appointment, on sunday disappointed us by not coming to church, and on monday and tuesday told us to wait and see him til his appointment on wednesday. Well on wednesday when we came, through the storm, to see him he told us: that it's raining, that he just got home from work, and that he was eating dinner (a bowl of rice that he could have finished in 5 minutes), and that on saturday he would meet us by all means. Well we went back home having learned a valuable lesson about riding our bicycles in the mud when we saw the state of our shirts. The backs were completely black with dirt. So we had to scrub that night. On friday and saturday it also rained so we again got soaked, but we walked so only our trousers and shoes had to be scrubbed and not our shirts. I'll let you guess for yourselves what that guy told us on saturday night. Sunday we had a pretty good day at church. The usual mixture of disappointments and miracles in getting investigators to sacrament meeting. We had a new family come who seem pretty cool. Hopefully we'll meet them again tonight. On my birthday we should have a baptism for one girl, Jeremina, who's really great. She's been investigating the church for awhile and is way brilliant. Well I love you guys so much I hope to see you all safe and sound once again. Love, Elder Chambers