Centennial 16

I Love Being A Barbarian --Sister Webster

 

I do not have much time to email this week so this will be very short and rushed.  

You guys remember that dragon guy? Well now he is back.  We found out that the Elders never really stopped teaching him so they passed him off [to the Sisters].  We have a lesson with him today and we are going to talk about the priesthood.  Right now he seems to have some idea that it will help him prove that he was a dragon.  We decided we should clarify.  

Mebrahtu is doing well.  He was sick last week but is doing better.  Our ward mission leader and him are really good friends now.  We are like the only friends he has and he has been here for 7 years which is kind of sad.  We found this Ethiopian restaurant which has a similar culture to Eritrea.  Toby and he went and got food from there so we all ate it together yesterday.  Mebrahtu wants Toby to come with him to Eritrea and Toby says there is no way because he would die.  Mebrahtu is a great example to all of us that we need to wash our hands before we eat; he is very good at reminding all of us.  He also lets us know that burgers, soda, coffee, beer, and smoking is "bad, no good" at least we know that the Word of Wisdom will be no problem.  I can now kind of say Jesus Christ in Tigrinya.  I am thinking I should learn "in the name of Jesus Christ amen" so in my homecoming talk I can say it in a language I learned on my mission.  

On Tuesday we were supposed to have a lesson with Kamelena but she did not show up.  The Gonzalez family did end up coming to church though so that is great.  Kamelena let us know that she is coming this Tuesday to activities.  We ended up just teaching the nine year olds that were there to help.  They are all now super excited to help us teach it today.  

This week when we were tracting we met this lady named Dorothy.  We knocked on her door and she said her pastor just died so she wanted a new church.  We told her when ours was and she was welcome. We went back the next day and taught the restoration she said to not be surprised if she showed up at church.  She also said we are super nice and that we should tell our parents they did a great job raising us.  She did not end up coming to church, but oh well it was still a cool experience.  

I think that is everything. Have a great week :)