Pictures: Filling The Font

   To answer some questions from previous emails,  My health is doing good... I guess....  It can't get any worse if that makes things better.  I've hit rock bottom so I can only get healthier from here right? (;  Kidding.. my health is actually pretty good I think.  The only problem is we eat too much oil so my arteries might be clogging up. Yes my taste buds have changed.  I can't believe I'm saying this but...... I love rice now.  The food they make here is amazing.  I love Mostly ALL of it!  I have learned to cook some of the food, so When I get home, I'll prepare a nice African dish for us all.  But yes,  God makes your taste buds change, thats for sure.  I will miss all this food here when I have to leave.  Then, Rainy season is about to end.  They say October is the last month it will rain and then it gets hot again.... not looking forward to the heat.  It only goes to about May, and then it finishes, so after my year mark It will be rainy season again. Dad, how was the priesthood session on Tv? Do you like it this way?  When I get home we'll still have to go out and get some food or something.  I think it will be weird watching it on tv.  Is it better, or do you wish that you could go to the church still?  Elder Bowring says that he loved the present/candy from you guys so thank you he said.  Its fun only being a door down from him, so we still get to talk and hangout still, we just don't proselyte together.  Its really crazy at how close our families knew each other before we became companions. Small world... By the way, how was conference?  We won't get to listen to it for another month or so, which stinks, but hopefully we'll be able to listen to them all this time.  Last conference we only got to listen to like 3-4 talks and that was it.  I miss watching the full thing.  Thank you for the tie savor as well!! When I remember to put it on, its awesome!  Where did you even find this gadget at?  And Maybe in the next package you send, maybe for christmas, you can send a bag of popcorn kernals so that i can make some Caramel popcorn with my companion!  Elder Humphreys and I have a great time teaching together.  We think we'll be together until the 22nd of December. If he stays another transfer after that with me, he'll stay until the 2nd of February.  This year is coming to a close quick!!! Its almost Halloween and then Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!  My mission is going quick! I make sure to cherish every moment of my mission and I'm sure to not have any regrets.  Something President Kirkham has wanted us zone leaders to have our zones start doing, is having each apartment share miracles at night;  Meaning, a miracle that they saw in their day today.  ITs incredible to see how God works in our lives when we are actually paying attention to it.  It has made all of us missionaries go out looking for how God is blessing our lives each day.  We share our miracles at 10pm every night and then we say an apartment prayer and go to bed.  This is a great way for us to be thankful to God for providing for us, keeping us safe, and helping others everyday.  I love doing this.  Its a great way to end our day with having the spirit.  Even you guys could do it personally before going to bed, or even laying in bed, just think about ways God has blessed your life during the day.

On Saturday, I finally had another baptism!! This is my first one in over 3 months now.  We had 3 actually.  2 girls and 1 boy.  They are solid converts and we even have another one this coming Saturday.  Its incredible at how prepared these people in Doe Community are!  They have been WAITING for us to come along.  Its incredible.  We literally are harvesting converts here.  The members will just see us and say, "Come.  We have someone we want you to start teaching."  Do you know how nice that is when members give us people to teach?  It makes missionary work a lot of fun.  We are constantly teaching and that's what I love doing.  I love teaching about these basic principles that everyone needs to know.  There are sooo many people who have been lost and can't find the truth.  That's what I love about our investigator F. S. David.  In our lesson with him the other day, we were talking about the Law of Chastity, and he made a few comments that I loved.  I pulled my planner out and jotted them down so i wouldn't forget(;  one of them when we were talking about the law of chastity was that he said, "I've been sleeping all along.  Now I'm just waking up."  He compared it to getting shocked by 220 Volts and how it jump started his mind.  He said he has found the truth and now is inviting others to come join the church. just yesterday he brought two buddies along and after church he told us he will be bringing 3 next week so we should bring book of Mormons for them...  Alright! Whatever you say!  HES INCREDIBLE!!!!!  Another comment he made during the lesson was about how Liberians are struggling with the law of chastity and he said, "I want to take the forefront. I want to be a leader."  He wants to tell people about this!!  This all started with a Book of Mormon floating down the river by his house!  This guy is strong!!  And during this lesson of the law of Chastity, before we went into it, he sat down a brand new PMG.  He then went into telling us about the great missionary who went to Whales and was teaching.  He kept going off about how great this guy was and how he loves people like this.  Elder Humphreys and I just turned and smiled at each other.  I love this investigator!  He's solid!

One last story.  It was Tuesday or Wednesday night, but before we went to bed, Elder Humphreys and I  got taking about some scary movies and different things.( which is never a good idea to do at night in Africa)  And as Elder Humphreys was getting situated in his bed, he hit the fan slightly and thought someone grabbed him.  You can see how  sketchy it gets at night if you talk about scary stuff haha  he realized it was just the fan, until it happened again.  This time he thought someone was grabbing him.  So I got out of my net, flipped the light on and no one was there.  Sketchy.... haha we just went to bed after that and didn't think about it.  But in the middle of the night around 3 o clock,  I guess I started sleep talking in a weird voice (from what my companion says) and moving my hands around.  Elder Humphreys thought a demon was taking me over hahaha so he yells to me, "Elder Zaugg! Elder Zaugg!"  I slowly wake up from my deep sleep and ask him what's wrong.  He then asks me if I'm alright. hahaha  I at this point have no clue what's going on so I'm thinking he had a scary dream or something.  I ask him what happened and he said I was sleep talking and he thought something was taking over me.  I just told him sorry and tried telling him I was dreaming about talking to someone.  He didn't go to sleep for awhile after that.  :)  I'm glad my companion cares enough about me to wake me up. :) It was funny when we woke up because we both didn't say anything to each other until after apartment prayer, and then we just started laughing about what went down.  Even the other night, He woke me up and said, "Elder Zaugg! Elder Zaugg!"  So I sat up and asked, "what do you want?"  This is at like 2am again fyi. and he responds with, "Freedom."  Then he goes back to sleep.  The man was sleep talking and wanted to just tell me he wanted freedom. :)  I couldn't help but laugh that early in the morning even though I was super tired.  Needless to say, we have some great experiences as a companionship.
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If you have any recipes you can send them in the next package.  I just want instructions on how to make food. Even any good things I could cook like the pizza thing or brownies or any good cooking things like you've sent before.  I love you all so much and thank you for everything! I still haven't received any letters that you've sent so hopefully I get them.  Also, follow this blog Berrettsinliberia.blogspot.com.  They are a couple missionaries here and they update there blog a lot better.  I'm running out of time, but on Saturday our font didn't work at the baptism, so we had to pull water from the well to fill it up by buckets. It was a cool experience.  One I will never forget.  I'll try sending the video home so you can see it.  I love you all so much and hope your week goes well! Love Elder Zaugg