Tub Scum

Family, I love you guys!
Keep sending letters! I havent received anything yet. no packages or anything...
but continue sending letters because I hardly have time to read emails only to send one! and send peanut butter!! its expensive here! I should have packed some like mom said.  but you can get quite a bit of American food, the problem is that the price is outrageous on these products and we only get 140 a month...

here comes story time

So ever since I arrived at our apartment, we haven't cleaned anything. So today was the day we decided to clean. My companion asked me which one would I like to clean, either the bathroom or the room. Me being nice I was like, oh I'll clean the bathroom since it has a few more things to do. So He cleaned the room while I did the bathroom. Now when I first got here I looked around and in the bathroom and everything was stained. The bath tub had nasty black stains and brown streaks all over the place, so did the tile on the wall. so it was pretty gross because you have no idea what any of this stuff could be. Anyways I start cleaning the sink and around the faucet then I move to the tub. Now this I thought was going to be easy...... I thought wrong. I take one swipe of the rag on the side of the tub and all these black and brown marks that I thought were stains for the past 4 weeks, were built up scum. My companion came in and started laughing and I asked him if he had ever cleaned this tub before. He said that when he was in training he cleaned it once but not very good... well thats obvious. haha You better believe I cleaned this tub after I saw that! I cleaned for a good 30-40 minutes and made this thing look like new. My mother taught me well!! (; Our tub is actually blue now and not black. Its cool how a little cleaning makes things look so nice.  I took a before and after picture and it is incredible. I'll try sending them over one of these times!

Okay, so there is something that I have found out about a mission... It makes you dream weird weird weird dreams. Just the other night I woke up from a dream where I was on my mission in Japan teaching a family in Japanese. I was so confused at what was real or not. I just went back to bed and tried to forget about it. Another dream I had was I was back home doing all the things that i would normally be doing if I were home and when I woke up I realized where I was and it was a little disappointing. I love my mission and all, but that dream was too real so waking up from it was terrible. A mission is an awesome experience though(:

Before I forget! Tell parker that I am way excited for him to leave this wednesday!! He'll have the best time on his mission! I can't believe he is already leaving. Time really has been going by super fast. lt is already pday again!!! The weeks and days all go by way fast when you are on your mission. I don't know how it is for you guys back home, but out here time goes by fast. And I am not complaining (:

I lied last email... I didn't end up getting my first African hair cut on that day. I actually did that today already. My hair was LONG!!! It was growing over my ears like I was growing a shag or something. I would be riding the bikes to our area and my hair would just flow in the wind and everyone just stares as we go by. I would have to comb my hair back over after every bike ride. I think its coming close to two months of not having my hair cut now. The last time kendra cut it was the week before my farewell im sure.

Now their is some more scriptures I want you guys to read

Matt: 21:21 Having faith with no doubts, you can do anything
Matt. 22:22If you believe, whatever you ask in prayer you shall recieve

I've known that if you have faith anything can happen. but when you study the bible and actually pay attention to what can happen if you have faith... you can do anything that is righteous. You can be healed of ANYTHING and i mean ANYTHING if you have faith to be healed. Faith is the most important thing that we all can strive to improve. We need to always exercise our faith, because the bible tells us that faith without works is dead. Exercising our Faith will make it grow strong and we'll be able to do anything.

I love you all so very much and can't wait to recieve these emails in letters so that I will hear how you guys are doing and be able to reply! Love you all!! Tell the little ones to play lots for me because Uncle Garrett doesn't get very much play time.

Love Elder Zaugg

I LOVE AFRICA!!!!