50 Kilometers of Mud - 8/18/18

Some food from the awesome member family

Helping make food with the YSA we visited

Eating with Sister B, KD, and G at a funeral gathering for G's dad.

Elders Jorgensen, Eckersley, and Phasay at the (biking) halfway point

Us at the halfway point, after biking for about 45 minutes in the mud and rain

Hey Friends and Fam,

This week's been a good time. On Saturday we went and visited a member family up north and chilled with them. They are way funny people. 

We had a good day at church on Sunday. We got two new investigators, who are both these two little girls who came with all of their friends to church from one of the northern villages. We also gave one of the coolest people ever, TA, a date for baptism! She got super excited and almost cried during the lesson because she wanted to change her life, but didn't think she'd get an opportunity to. She is awesome. She is about 18 and is a friend of one of the YSA here.

The rest of the week has pretty much been the English teaching grind. Get up, plan English, go teach, study, visit a member, go teach, eat dinner, visit a member, come home and crash. So that's been taking up a lot of our time. 

A miracle that happened this week is that one of our less active members is learning to drive! The reason they haven't been able to go church is because the old church used to be directly across from their house, so they could walk there. Now, the church is about 30 minutes away from their house, so getting there has been a challenge. But now they are learning to drive! And not just any car, but a van! So they can take their entire family! Yay! That's pretty neat.

The most interesting thing that happened this week was probably yesterday. We decided to use our work day that we don't have English class to go and visit some members that don't get visits very often. We set out on our journey on the one day this week that rained all day. Wahoo! So, we faced the rain and biked about 25 kilos out to this nice old grandma's house. She was sweet and fed us some very Buddhist bread. She is a way nice lady, but she's been having lots of pain and she's pretty much deaf. Nobody really visits her, so she was way excited to see us. We also visited a member who is a member of the YSA. She hadn't been visited for about maybe 3 years now, so she was also so happy for us to come and talk/eat with her mom. Then we biked back another 25 kilometers in the rain and mud. It was a wild time.

Well, that's about everything that happened this week! I hope that you are all doing great! I love and miss all of you! You're all in my prayers!

Love you guyz,

Elder Ridd <3