This was at the MTC. I didn’t get to send these!!!
I built a snowman!!! The biggest one I could manage!!! But it was nice to see snow before I left!
I went shopping for food!!! That was good I was starving!!! I didn’t have food and had to wait until today!! Mondays are awesome!
So there are a whole four missionaries in my zone, us and two elders!!! That’s fun!! Haha!!! My comp. doesn’t do Christmas that much!!! Not cause she was poor they just don’t!!! She says it’s like our Thanksgiving!! Food and family-no tree, stockings, presents, lights! nothing!!! I will try to buy her a stocking!!! I don’t have money because for some reason I only got 40,000 K on my debit!! I don’t even know how I am going to eat lunch and pay for transportation but I will figure it out!!! I get paid on the 15th so I just have to starve until then!!!
This was my feet the first day out!! Boom! Nasty, right!! Yeah, only out for about 3’ish hours that day!! Days are weird here! Not normal missionary hours!!! I don’t have to be out until 10:00 every morning and I leave my area at 5:00! get home at 6:00! I spend a lot of time in my flat!! But that’s the rules we gotta stay safe here!
I love bug spray and my mosquito net! I found a light switch to my room by my bed last night!! It was hidden. Made my day!!!
Christmas here isn’t like at home!!! It’s not that big!!! Today was the first day I’ve heard Christmas music besides the stuff I put on!
So, mom asked if I was in city or village!!! A village!!! Not in the big city!!! It’s a tiny place called Zingwangwa! Also in Chilobwe!
It is so beautiful!!! This is a picture of my area!!! My people’s houses!!! I love all the trees here in Malawi!!! We call it the Garden of Eden in the mission! Geez, I love it here!!
Here there are no addresses for the most part!!! But it is fun!!!! It is crazy learning another language though!!! I don’t get to study it like most people learning, who get an hour everymorning, its just on the go!! I’m using Chichewa and African-English. I wish they had a Book of Mormon in Chichewa!! That would be cool!!!
I sent some of this home!! I don’t think anyone would take it. It’s like stealing pennies!!! Actually, I didn’t send coins!!! So nobody will be able to tell it is there!!! You’ll get it in a couple of months 😉 It’s for the girls though!! Dad’s is coming in a bit but I didn’t get his letter sent off this time so I have to wait for somebody to come get the mail!! Remember we have no mail boxes!! No addresses!! That makes it fun when asking somebody where they live!!! My church’s address is “behind housing, by the broken down truck!” They understand! I don’t!
Malawian Kwatcha worth close to nothing!!! I get 50,000 Kwatcha every two weeks!! All those coins, about 80 cents American money!! My wallet is FAT with all the money and I am not rich!!
They like their pictures taken here!!! They ask!!!
Oh, and monkeys just chill here like cats do at home!!!
This is on the hike!!! Africans are afraid of Paschal (think Tangled)… it made me laugh!!! His face, man!!
He loves you, I love you! Stay strong!! Keep the emails coming!!! I will too!!! 🙂 Zikomo kwambili, teonana! (Thanks so much, Bye bye!)