Pictures, and My New Area

Y'ello!

So, the picture of Brooklyn......  that girl has some serious attitude.  I'm pretty sure she has 5 boyfriends already and its the second week of school..  Tell her boys have cooties and she should stay away from them.  I honestly can't believe how grown up she looks!  I'll have to beat off all those boys when I get home.  She looks like she was ready to start school!  How'd she do with leaving mom?  Doesn't look like she had to hard a time leaving ha  which is good!  The watermelon pictures are sweet!  I'm sad I'm not there to enjoy the first watermelon from the garden....  make sure you write down what you did so it actually was ripe! Then when I get home I'll be able to try some!  and dad... you are killin that blue v neck.  I love it!  I leave for 6 months and everyone's style changes.... what'll it be like at 1 year?? haha  Then you have the picture of my sistas....  I really like it for 2 reasons, 

1. You guys look beautiful.  2.  There are no boyfriends in it. 

 so lets keep it that way yeah?(;  



"The Sistas"  sending their love to their brother in Africa!

 

 

 I'll respond to this email and last weeks email in a letter home so don't worry.  Maybe you could even send a silver paged bible and BOM if that's alright.  I want to put crocodile skin on them and then put them away until I get home! But I saw a missionary do it and it looks sweet! 

Now what you all have been waiting for!!  My new companion and Area!  We'll start with my companion.  His name is Elder Bowring from Blanding Utah.  We went by where he lives when we went hunting last October so we were talking about that!  We get along great and he is doing good with learning the lessons.  It's weird having an American companion because I've only had African ones my whole mission, so it was a change.  I was shocked when I found out that I was training again and going to a whitewashed area..  no pressure Elder Zaugg.  The area is nice. We are on the far end while Elder Osayi and his companion are on the other.  But let me tell you about the area.  The first day I get there, I go on exchange with Elder Osayi and his companion so they can show me the area.  They started taking me to some of my investigators and showing me around, and then we went to see some of theirs.  The interesting part about it, was that our investigators didn't live to far from each other.....  I asked Osayi where my boundaries were and he responded with, "This area doesn't have any boundaries..."    What area has 2 companionships working in it intermingling investigators.... Not True!  Come to find out on Sunday,  we weren't even in my area.    Needless to say, the area was horrible. Our area book didn't help like it should have.  We just started fresh and started contacting our own investigators.  We'll see how things go now.  Oh yeah, and when it rains over here, we proselyte in about 2 to 10 inches of water, depending on what part we go into.   What an adventure right?  Sorry if the writing doesn't make sense, I'm rushing to get all this information out, so its not organized,  but you can kind of get an Idea of what the past 2 weeks have been like. 

The apartment we live in has Electricity all through the night so we get to have a fan, which will be good with dry season coming up.  Its crazy having light for such a long period of time.  I feel spoiled and like I'm living too good for the mission.  Even having Electricity back, I don't use it that much.  I have learned to live without it, so I don't need it as bad.  It definitely helps for sure, but If I didn't have power I could be content.  On to the room situation now.  We have our own bathroom hooked to our room with running water, but our toilet doesn't flush.  Our room constantly smells like poop from the bathroom.     On the same poop topic, our balcony looks off into an industrial park with a ditch right below us.  So whenever it rains and the wind blows, the ditch fills with water and blows the smell into our apartment.  I'm really thinking, the ditch behind our apartment is where all the poops go too... but I'm not sure.  You know when its windy though, that's for sure!!   Scriptures to read Helaman 12:2-4      Being rich is not a bad thing, but what I have learned from studying the scriptures, is that we need to know who's providing our wealth for us.  Don't ever forget God, and don't just turn to worldly things.  Help others and help the church.

James 1:1-4,8,12,19-20 and 5:20      You can read all of James 1 but look at these versus specifically.

After 5 months of living here its Transfer Day.....sad day.

My MTC brother and me, Elder Smith got split up.

The other Elder Smith that goes home on the 30th of this month.

Elder Zaugg teasing the children

Traffic at night...Liberians are impatient. A two lane road becomes a five lane road with any open space occupied with a bike man.

Make sure you are taking time out of your day to sit down and just look over a few chapters or a few versus.  The scriptures tell us that if we rest them, it will be to our own destruction.  Dont ever stop studying the scriptures.  you need to make time for God so that he can make time for you.  Go to church with the desire to participate and to gain something from each lesson.  Don't go to just go.  You'll be wasting your time by doing so.  Make life count by doing what Mosiah 2:41 says and obey the commandments.  Then we'll be able to receive those spiritual blessings of having a stronger testimony and also we will receive those temporal blessings.  If God makes us rich, don't let pride sink in.  Why money is the root to all evil, is because people don't know how to use their money the right way.  They end up putting themselves in a worse place in life then if they would have been poor.  When you're poor, you  actually learn something from your trials.  Don't feel like your life is rough if you have a trial.  The scriptures tell us that we should rejoice if we have trials!  We will grow and become those people who God wants us to be if we go through them.  I know that this is the only true Church on this earth.  I love having this testimony and I want everyone I meet to have this same testimony.  Find out for yourself if this church is really the true church.  PRAY to know!  Don't just listen to everyone say its true.  Me telling you its true, won't get you a place in heaven.  So find out for yourself and reserve yourself a place in heaven.  I love you all and can't wait to hear from you next week!

Love Elder Zaugg