Hello dearest family :)
It has been a bit of a slow week. I can't help but wish so badly that I could see my cute boys today! Especially with the arrival of Jackson, (who is so stinking cute) I am missing you all a little extra! We have been in the process of dropping quite a few of our investigators because they have not been progressing, and so we are in the finding stage again. But before I start complaining I MUST tell you about the African Safar we went on last week! IT was SO cool! Sister P. treated us so well! So this is what the african safari is like- you have a part where you actually drive in your car and see the animals so they are just outside your window! and then you can go and see other animals more like a zoo. But I saw lions, and cheetahs and Elephants....AND I RODE AN ELEPHANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am definitely very tired! Since we have been sharing the car with the Elders and the bus system is awful here, we have been doing a whole lot of walking! I think i'll probably walk right out of my shoes- they are going to get worn down quick! I have been feeling more anxious than usual the last couple of days so I bought a case of Diet Coke last week (it was only 3 dollars!) so that helps- it is totally my vice for stress. Last night I took a bubble bath and drank a diet coke. haha So with all this walking you would think I could lose a pound or two! but i am just the same weight! ahah that kills me! I don't want to come back fat! haha
OH and I must tell you about an investigator. His wife, is a member but he is not. We have had 4 dinner appointments with them since I've been here! He has been taught by the missionaries a lot in the past, but it just hasn't been right. He doesn't feel like he has gotten his answer. So during these dinner appointments we have just worked on forming a good friendship with him. I can be totally myself around him and be sarcastic and it makes him feel all the more comfortable. So things had been going really well and we were going to ask him if he would allow us to teach him...he goes to church and everything- completely a dry mormon, but there were a lot of people at dinner that night so we didn't ask. Now they are in the Elder area- makes me so sad. So anyways, his wife approached us yesterday and asked when we could go over for dinner...and we explained that they are now in the Elder's area. She got a little teary and said that he has really connected with us and really wants us to see if he would allow us to teach him. She is so sweet. She is from Ireland so she has the sweetest accent (she is the one who gave me the drawing stuff). So we have been trying to get permission to be able to teach him but it is up to Elder H.. He is somebody that you meet and he is like an old friend. I actually cried last night because I am just kind of beat up about it. As his wife was asking us we told her we would try, then she said...well I've been waiting 25 years for this. It is going to kill me if we can't teach him.
oh and a side note- Simon Dewey's son is in my mission :) haha
I did have a really neat experience this last week with prayer. I had been kind of struggling with how I can improve my prayers and so I read the article in last months Ensign about improving personal prayers and so I've started to have vocal prayers at night before I go to bed. I go out into the living room alone and it helps sooo much to just think about it a little more and really consider what I am saying. Another thought I had was while I was trying to fall alseep one night was about the parable of the talents. I thought about how it relates to missionary work and how Heavenly Father has blessed us with the gospel in our lives and if we do not share that and "increase" that, then we are wicked and slothful servants.
I love you all so much. I am doing well. Pray for me. Pray that I will be able to manage stress and that we will be able to find a family to teach!
Oh speaking of families- I have to tell you about some little girls who love us. We were street contacting and there was a mother and her kids on the otherside of the street playing. So I say to companion...let's go talk to them. ahahh so we got the mothers number and everything. unfortunately we haven't been able to visit with her yet but her kids are always out playing and so we see them lots! They come and give us hugs and sometimes follow us around. Love them a lot.
Anyways...I think this is my longest email yet!
Love you!
Sarah Sue
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