Pepe, Super P-day, & A visit from Elder Curtis

 Elder Taylor and I tried to be artsy when we went on an exchange. It looks kind of cool. Except it's blurry. Ah well.

One day a branch missionary and our Zone Leader came proselyting with us. And our Branch President thought we looked super cool walking up. So he took a picture. You can see part of where I go walking every day in the back ground.

Hello my people,

How's everything? All is well here in Afraca. First off, Jen: I want you to know that I am super grateful because I have been getting all your letters and I've just been doing a terrible job of writing you back! I'll try to do that today! Also, pepe is a type of pepper. People pound it in those nifty little wood things and then put it in their food. I'm pretty sure pepe powder is the secret ingredient in Tony's seasoning, by the way. But actually, funny you mentioned beating a kid. (Jen looked up the meaning of pepe on wikipidia and it said it was a nickname - see comments from last post)A popular punishment for children is taking the pepe pepper and squirting the fiery juices into their eyes... okay it's not very funny at all. You would be surprised to know how many people I've stopped from mercilessly beating their 3 year old with a stick because the kid walked too far away from the house or something small like that.

Today was a pretty good P-day. We had "Super P-day," which basically means everyone in our Zone (16 Elders) got together and had an activity. And the activity was..... football! Yeah it was super sweet. This time we played a bunch of members from the Wellington Branch. Once again we didn't keep score, but if I had to guess what one is I would say it was probably like 13-5. Yeah. We killed them. It was great. I didn't score but I had like 3 or 4 assists. So that was pretty cool.

So story for this week? Well, the most exciting thing this week was that we were visited by a General Authority! Elder Lee Curtis. He actually spoke at the last General Conference. So it was pretty cool to get to meet him and see what he was like. He gave us really good instruction about the Book of Mormon and the Prophet Joseph Smith. It was super cool. One thing he said that I feel like everyone might want to know, is that he said if you read 6 pages of the standard works every day, you'll finish all of them by the end of the year. I really want to try that but we don't have time to just read that much scriptures in a day. Plenty of things to think about and look at pertaining to the people we teach.

One thing that we don't get to use pretty much ever in our mission is the DVDs and other church videos people can watch. The reason being because people don't have power or TVs. But this one man we are teaching is fortunate to have power every now and then, and he is able to understand American accents and when the person talks normal. He's a really really smart guy. So, since Elder Holland is coming in February, and we had just taught him about living prophets and continuing revelation, we played him the audio of Elder Holland's talk Place No More For the Enemy of My Soul. Which is so good and anyone who hasn't heard it should go listen to it. It really puts things of the world into an eternal perspective. After it was done, it was quiet for a few seconds and then I said, "that was a living apostle of Jesus Christ." It doesn't sound very intense in an email but if you go and listen to the talk it'll make you just be like, "whaaaaaaaaat." Man Elder Holland is so sweet and our mission gets to meet him! So cool. Continuing revelation is definitely a great blessing for all of us, and I definitely want to study all of it a lot more. Anyway, the man was super excited that he will also have the opportunity to hear him speak and it's all really good. Fun fact, the last apostle to come to this country was in 1980 and it was just to dedicate the land for missionary work. So it's a pretty landmark thing in our mission. Anyway, that was the week and everything else is going great! I love you and think about you all!

Love,
Elder Stewart