Lifeless Lady

Family!

It is always good to hear from you all each week so keep the emails coming(:  I cant believe I am coming up on my 3 month mark either! It has gone by fast and continues to go by fast!  After I get done training my companion, I will be at 5 1/2 months... thats in 10 weeks.  This next transfer will only be 4 weeks long so that the Liberia mission will be on track with the MTC schedule.  So my companion will only be trained for as long as me.  That means I will be craming some of the weeks together so he can get everything he needs.  It will be fun for sure! Taking over the area and being the one in charge is a huge change.  Its a lot better than being the one getting trained.  Me and Elder Smith have been covering two ares this last week and this week to come.  It has been way fun going back and forth between the two.  But us both being white and from America... all the bike dudes try ripping us off.  I just think, "home boy, we take this road everyday, just stop."   :)  they think we are stupid I guess, because we were coming from this place called Point four and we were going to Iron Gate, and the guys said 80per person.... yeah thats an expensive ride in Liberia.  The ride should cost 40per person....  we got it down to 50 but that still is a rip off.  I can see why they don't put Two white people together very often.  I have noticed that people in my area call us over and want to hear what we have to say more often now because of us both being white.  Some of them only want money from us, but then you'll get those others who actually want to hear what you have to say.  The Lord works in mysterious ways though! Its really cool seeing how he is in your life everyday on mission.  Me and my companion prayed that we would be able to run into new people who were prepared to hear the gospel, or they would run into us... and that same day we had a mom call us over to talk to us.  She said that her son wants to join us and wants to listen to what we have to say.  So we made an appointment and said we would come and sit down with them.  Went back in two days and discussed with him and his two sisters about our message.  We shared with them The Gospel of Jesus Christ, which goes over faith, repentance, baptism, Gift of the holy ghost, and enduring to the end.  They were so receptive to the message, so we continued to go back to them.  They all three have been baptized now and are only waiting to be confirmed! They came late yesterday to church so they weren't able to be confirmed.  Being on mission and having these experiences is one of the greatest feelings.  I LOVE IT!  The longer that I am on mission, the more I love my investigators and desire for them to gain their salvation.

Another story that happend last p-day is kind of crazy.  Me and Elder Osayi went to President Twehweh Tweh's house for family home evening and rice. We showed up an hour late because we had trouble getting their so we weren't able to have family home evening.  But as she was bringing the rice out, we saw the size of the bowl she was holding...  It was half the size of the white bowl mom has that she makes her salads in for parties.  It was the same roundness, just not as deep.  She said she prepared food for 4 Elders.... only me, Elder Osayi, and President were there....  I about died when we finished the bowl.  Yes, we ate all of the rice...  the Lord makes your taste buds change for sure, because I remember not liking rice before I came out but now, I enjoy rice quite a bit.  The food here that they make gets better the longer you stay as well.  But back to the story.  Before we started eating it though, we were talking about the war that happened when a young man came running over pointing around the corner of the house.  At the same time we heard a lady yelling "O'Ma! O'Ma!" which they use to call moms over here.  Anyway, so we get up and run around the corner, and there's this lady, lifeless in this womans arms.... Just 5 minutes before we sat down to eat we were talking to her.  so we started helping them move her into a chair and she slowly started coming back.  President then gave her a blessing and she seemed to be getting better.  To this day, I dont know what happened to her, but it made a really interesting family home evening dinner.

I forgot my paper that I write on for the things that I want to write home about, so this is all that I can remember so I will write the other things next week! sorry I hope you all have a good week and I keep you guys in my prayers! I love you all!!!! Thank you for sending Osayi a package. I think it will make his day for sure!

Love Elder Zaugg

I LOVE LIBERIA!