Elder Zaugg Has A Release Date

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!  Enjoy this last one without me!!

This week was our Zone Conference in kpong,  4 hours from Hohoe. We went down Monday night to Ho (my last area) and stayed in my old apartment.  We arrived around 9:30pm.  The next morning was zone conference at 9am so we had to leave around 6 because it’s a two hour drive to kpong from Ho.  We're talking in tro tros.... 15 passenger vans... not the Chevy version either.  This is the wagon type. The flat front end, and when you see one passing down the road it looks similar to how Oak used to run.  (Oak is Elder Zaugg’s dog) Remember how his back end would run on the side of him.....?  Think of a car coming at you like that... better yet, a big truck.  It’s a miracle we make it to our destinations safely.  There’s a story of a woman who was sitting in the front seat, and when they went around a bend, the door that was "shut" flung open and gravity/the G force took hold of her and she got sucked out.... kind of funny, but scary at the same time. :)  Don’t worry, we always pray before we go!  Back to zone conference, we were there from 9am to 3pm... Lots of things were learned!  We even had interviews with president.  He kind of assured me of what day I’ll be going home!!!  He said I’ll be going home........ !  Hopefully the connection for the Christmas call will be good so I can tell you (; (Elder Zaugg thinks he is so funny keeping this information from his family)  When it was all over, we traveled back, but ended up having to stay the night again in Ho because of how late it was.  That meant KCS!! PIzza!!!  Can’t wait for real pizza...

The Hohoe group is still small... we'll be going to the Temple this Saturday!  It'll be a 6 hour ride down, and a 6 hour ride back.  So it'll be an early day! Plan on leaving around 4:30-5 in the morning.  But, the group is growing!  The area was split with the two missionaries coming up, and it seems like everyone we contact in our area lives outside of our area.... we work hard at contacting, yet we hand them all over to the other companionship.  :) We're all in it together though, so work harder right?

My companion makes me laugh.  It’s always interesting to be with Africans from different countries. They all have similar personalities but different living circumstances, so it’s interesting. You'd have to be here to understand it.  We get along great though!

A miracle that happened to Elder Iyamu that I’ll share.  The other day when they went to buy some food around town, they took a taxi home, then stopped by our sign out on the road.  They walked back, did the nightly routine, then went to bed.  When he woke up, he realized his wallet was gone along with all his subsistence...  No one knew where it was, and they were making plans of trying to persuade the mission to give him some small money.  Well, this morning we got a knock on the door, and a man said he found this wallet in his taxi.  He said that he found it in the back seat so he held onto it to try and track someone down.  Hoping there was a number on the inside when he opened it to call, but found none.  He decided to follow the sign boards of where he dropped off the missionaries and track down the house.  Well, he accomplished it, and found the owner of the wallet.  How he knew he should check here after all the passengers he took, who knows.  But all we can say is it was a miracle, and we thank God for looking out for him.

Sorry for slacking on giving things to read and what not.

Hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving! Eat some for me!  Love you all!!  Enjoy the festivities!!

Love Elder Zaugg