I am just green with jealous rage right now. Man the fun better continue when i get home cause i am missing out! The trip to Nauvoo sounds so much fun. I cant believe grandma sheila is already at the mission pinnacle. Well good to hear you guys are having a bang up time you truly deserve it! Man i wasnt to sad until you mentioned pumpkin pie!
So things are going well. I cant believe it has been a year. We are working on our branch. We really have some out standing people. There is this little boy in our area that we usually see roaming around. I dont know if i mentioned him before, but his name is clifford. I am pretty sure i could fit him in a suit case and bring him home. He is so cool. Every time i see him i give him frooties. He says he wants to come to America so he can eat them everyday. Poor young chap i got another person hopelessly addicted. Anyway he takes and reads our pamphlets and asks questions, its pretty cool. So the other day we get a call from his mom, at first we thought she was gonna blast us for being nice to her son and filling his head with nonsense but she said i am impressed at how highly my son speaks of you guys, can you come visit me. Um, YES! She is a single mother named Linet and she is a very strong impressive mother. She is loaded. Her house is huge, I forgot i was in east africa for a second. We sat around for a while getting to know each other and sipping coco. She said she has never been married and lost her daughter to leukemia. She teared up and i asked her what she thinks happens when we die. She replied that is the end. I said what if it wasnt, what if you could be with your daughter again? haha it was like seeing a dog on point and their ears suddenly stick up. It was really awesome and so we are seeing her again this week. We really have high hopes for her and her little family. Clifford is 8 years old which is so cool! Man its amazing what the gospel can do.
The work here is unlike any where in the world. Kenya is one of a kind and sometimes i want to scream and other times i am the happiest i have ever been in my entire life. haha kinda sounds like a mission eh? Anyway i like how you all wrote separately. I will disclose a little info in each email so be sure to not be stingy and share the highlights. So man i have been wearing a bullet proof vest since i came out and now it seems like a heavy holy christmas sweater instead. It seems like when mission is going the best thats when opposition comes. I assume that is how it goes with most missionaries but i... i just.... i dont like it! Nope no i dont! But anyway i am hanging in there and joseph smith asked the same question when things were going so well then immediately changed. I am doing good though. i am still batting strong easily a solid .300 and my are RBIs are exceptional i might say even though satan is throwing the change up and a filthy curve! This reading of the Book of Mormon is really what is keeping me going. Allot of good stuff in 531 pages. Well thats all for me. Have fun at the raptors and bees games, man our family is bouncing around the country like a beach ball at a nickle back concert! I am jealous, but i should stop cause herd satan was jealous. haha
-Elder Haynes
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