Hello family! Hey there, I don't know how I felt about that little line about my crazy African accent! Haha, sometimes when I'm sitting there I find myself thinking about things in Krio. It's kind of weird. Glad the Relief Society enjoyed the little bit about me teaching it. Lets just say I never want to teach Relief Society again! Haha. There are no pictures attached of Savannah from prom and I'm a little upset about that. Not gonna lie. But it's her birthday today and HOLY COW I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE'S 17. WHAT THE HECK IS THAT. Doesn't she still have her braces? Sometimes when I show people a picture of all you guys they ask what's on her teeth in the picture. I tell them it's her grill. No not really. I just say she fell down and they had to use iron bars to get her teeth to stay in her mouth. Okay so usually no one ever asks. Anyway, happy birthday Savannah! Sorry I can't send you a present but, I'll do my best to find something cool for you. Speaking of those kinds of souvenir things- what are you guys wanting me to find for you? Any ideas? There's this big trend that has caught on with the missionaries and that's to "make homeboys." A homeboy is what they call hoodies here. But what we do is we buy some sweet looking african material and bring it to a tailor and have him make a hoodie out of it. There's this expensive hand woven cloth called country cloth that my companion and I are going to make some out of. Everything together costs about 100,000 leones to make one. So around $23 or so. They have other cheaper African looking material to make it out of though. We'll see. So I can make those, or any other kind of clothes out of african looking material. Kind of cool. Then they have like other handwoven bags like purses and lots of football jerseys for cheap and I guess right before they take missionaries home from their missions they take them to a wood market where there's lots of hand carved statues and stuff. So yeah. Just keep some things in mind and if you think of anything I can try and find it for you. They have all that cliche African stuff here too. So just let me know! Maybe you can tell me when I call home. Anyway, so this week was flipping sweet because we had our first ever meeting inside our new building inside Waterloo! It was great. There were 3 pairs of senior couples there so it was kind of exciting. We had a successful meeting and there was no problem there. We also had this one investigator come who is the mother and the boss of this one household. 3 of the people in her household are interested in the church and want to be baptized, but she keeps telling them they need to wait first. She came to church for the first time and she had a really good experience. She's a super smart lady and went to university in England. Which is close to impossible for someone from here to do. When she had first met the missionaries teaching her family I guess she was kind of rude and totally uninterested in them but something has changed and she's agreed to start taking the lessons. We've been having some sweet lessons with her and we're really looking forward to seeing what happens with her. All I know is she would make a great Relief Society President (so that way Elder Stewart wouldn't have to teach!). Anyway, the church is sweet. My area is sweet. My companion is sweet. The district is sweet. No problem. I just want to work hard and finish everything strong! Oh and I don't think I told you but the name of my area is officially called "Ibo Town." Anyway, I love all of you and will talk to you all next week! Love, Elder Stewart P.S. I haven't seen anything too wild other than the mammoth moth that attacked out apartment (about the size of my open palm), and the crazy people who dress up as "debuls." Nothing too crazy!
Here are some Krio proverbs GכD Nכ DE GI YU LOD WE YU Nכ GO EBUL TOT. God won't give you a load you can't carry. WE DεN TOT YU NA BAK, YU Nכ NO SE ROD LANGGA. If they carry you on their back, you won't know that the road is long.
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