7/20
*siiip* "I'm trying a new brand of Hot Chocolate tonight."
"Which brand?"
"Fudge-something."
"Okay, how is it?"
"Weird. Not bad, but weird. I'll probably need to finish the mug before I decide."
Anyway, today was an interesting day. We started by going to Kayole 2 (late of course, we went to the wrong chapel, Kayole 1, not 2). The second we arrived there, I was greeted by a snacking Elder Saunders who was on his 6th Chapate of the morning. He recommended me to this guy just across the street who was making these really fire Chapate. I got two, and had to hold myself back from getting more.
Why were we at Kayole 2? Open House. I spent most of my time writing a phone number on pamphlets and barely contacted anyone. At one point I grabbed a member and taught him how to contact. The guy was nervous and shy, and I just cheerfully bulldozed right over that. The guy was a natural once I'd given him a push. He contacted more people than I did, and more than a lot of missionaries. Nice!
We headed back not long after that so we could be on time to our first appointment of the day: Correlation. We met with B.Eugene and hammered out some details to help the work move forward. I also ended up taking on extra responsibilities. It's fun figuring out what you have to do to move the work forward.
Our first appointment after that was these two kids. We discovered that they didn't speak English. Well, kidogosana. I discovered that I know more Swahili than I realized as I was listening to E.Kanda talk to them, and I pretty much understood everything he told them. He even turned to me to summarize the conversation, but I already knew everything, just missed a word every now and then. Just to be clear: missionary Swahili is very different from conversational Swahili. I still can't understand that.
The spirit even blessed me with enough Swahili in the moment to ask a clarifying question in Swahili. It's not something I can repeat right now, even as I try to remember what the hecky I said. I got the answer though: they are attending Sunday school. We'll be taking a translator next time.
The guidance of the Lord is apparent in our next move right after this appointment ended a lot earlier than expected. My comp turned to me and was like: "what do we do now?" At first I thew out contacting, but then I had a person pop into my head, so I suggested that we visit with her to see when she can help us with missionary work. We headed there, she wasn't home, we chatted with her Dad for a minute, then she showed up. We'll have someone to work with on Wednesday this week now.
We had to head back the way we came after that, past the place of our last appointment. We had to go looking for the flat of the person for our next appointment, but we got a little lost. Fortunately, it was only by one street. We were only one street over from the one we wanted to be on. We found the one we were looking for, and we met with the Woman in question. Nice lady, her name is Evans (eee-vans), but I'm gonna nickname her Sister E. She seems rather promising, she was a referral from her mother in law: the relief society president. It was a good lesson, but it looks like things might be hard.
7/21
Oh boy, looks like I'm going into overtime. I'll explain in a sec.
Anyway, we started the day off with sacrament, then we had Sunday school. Nothing too interesting. I had a bit of free time so I finally finished the book of Judges and the book of Ruth, now I'm in Samuel. Fun!
"We" taught those two kids from yesterday with a member named Bradley "helping." He's a returned missionary who serveed in Uganda. He taught the entire lesson, we just sat there and looked pretty. Well, we did have a +1 for this lesson in the form of a 2 or 3 year old little girl. I spent the lesson letting the more complex Swahili go right over my head and trying to teach this little girl how to wink. She never quite managed to do it. It did keep her quiet though, so it was worth it.
After that, we headed back to do the weekly planning that we'd been putting off. Got through it nice and easy, then we met with Bradley again and went to visit a member who'd invited us over.
I learned something today: I like Bradley, he told me I should blast people in a loving manner if they lie a lot. Okay, here's some context. We were talking about how a lot of Kenyans here like to say that they'll "come" to an appointment, or that they'll "come" to church. Bradley has nicknamed those people "entertainers." He said that you just call them on it in "a loving manner." I translated that to mean: "Blast 'em with the spirit, don't just blast to blast." He agreed with my translation. I like the guy, but he sparked the desire in me to watch Marvel movies. He told me how much he liked Endgame and I'm like: "Dang son, that's wicked. So would I be if I watched it right now." (Didn't say that, but it summarizes what I was thinking) He was absolutely shocked when I told him that I haven't seen any Marvel movie since Spider-Man Homecoming. Fun guy, good teacher too. He's the kind of RM I want to be. We're working with him on Friday this week.
We visited S.Linda after the member visit (Bradley tagged along). We didn't have much time to teach her because we kept running into people on the street that we knew. It really slowed us down.
This is what I was talking about when I mentioned overtime. S.Linda has been low-key avoiding church, and I think I found the problem: she's nervous and/or scared. I suggested to her that we should bring a few Relief Society Sisters later this week to meet her so that she'd have some friends at church, and so that she could feel more comfortable. She agreed to it.
I texted the Relief Society President this evening to see if she could track down two sisters who would be free at an appointed time on Thursday. If I don't hear back from her by tomorrow evening I'm gonna give her a call. If she hasn't done anything then I'm gonna call every Sister in the phone to find out if anyone is free. This may be the last week of the transfer, but I'm done playing. People don't do anything unless you bug them half to death. So that's what I'll do. If I have to bug them to the resurrection and back I'll do it. Well, maybe that's too aggressive, but you get my point!
That's what I meant by overtime by the way.
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