Electricity and Spiders

     Ok so I can't reply to your email since I have so much to say and so little time. So I will look forward to the letter and reply to it through a letter or something!  Life in Africa is sweet. It makes you realize how much you take for granted.... Electricity 24/7, variety in food, queen size bed, no mosquito net, no HUGE spiders, paved roads, orderly traffic that you feel safe in, and much more that I think of right now...
     The Electricity situation... We have electricity on from 7 to 10:30 which helps a lot. we use a generator that is in a shed behind the zone leaders apartment. That is one thing that is so useful... Electricity helps with everything. When you don't have light in the morning to study, its by flash light. I love all the things we bought though! Like that lantern flash light we got at sportsmans works like a champ! It lights up the whole room so we can do our daily planning until the gen turns on. And that fan by the way... Its amazing to sleep with! I actually get cold at night and sleep with my blanket... weird I know. You think me being in Africa I wouldn't have to use a blanket.. but nope. I definitely don't hate being cold in Africa. haha It helps get through the night! and thats another thing... at night we are suppose to take in our pillows that we put on the weight bench to make it soft for us, so that the dog won't get them. Well, one morning around 4am we woke up to the sound of a dog getting beat... yeah when your in Africa and you hear these sounds... not the best way to get woken up. But once I realized it was I dog I went back to sleep. We woke up the next morning and we got told what had happened and we felt bad. We couldn't find the dog anywhere.... we though it was dead. After proselyting we came home and it was happy as can be! I don't understand how this thing still walks straight. Its been beat too many times!
     So this week we had to have a coordination meeting with the branch mission leader at the church on Tuesday. We went there and they didn't show up, so we sat in on the Book of Mormon class instead. Before we went to the class though, we went to use the bathroom. The church isn't very big and has no running water. So these toilets you have to use a bucket and flush it that way. Anyway, we walk into the bathroom and there are two stalls. My comp passes the first one and goes to the second one. When I opened the stall door, on the side of the wall, I saw a spider the size of my hand go running to the back of the stall... Yes this is my first spider incident and I hope it is the last.These spiders are ridiculous. But once I saw this thing run, I didn't have to use the bathroom whatsoever anymore. This spider could have been in a horror film... It was freaky. especially being in a stall in the bathroom. You better believe I check around the toilet whenever I use it now. I dont think I will ever be a spider fan.
     Another interesting thing happened to me during personal study this week. As I was sitting at my desk that faces the closet, I was pondering in one of the trances where you just stare at something and think. I was staring at the back of our closet, when I saw something crawl across the wall.... for a moment I thought my imagination was really good, but I stood up and walked closer and I saw what looked like to be a spider leg... It was massive. it then ran behind some clothes... I shined the flash light in and around the closet, and to my amazement, it was a gecko. It freaked me out when I thought it was a huge spider in my closet haha we still haven't caught it either. Its wandering around our apartment somewhere.
     I have more I want to say, but I have to go! so I will write it in a letter and send it to you guys! Could you send more stamps? I will answer this email when I get it in the mail! I wasn't able to read it because of time so please send it! I love you guys so much!

Love Elder Zaugg

I LOVE AFRICA