Elder Dodger Smith

Post 10 part 1
Not  gunna lie this week was wild. Last monday feels like a year ago but  also like it just happened. I think I said it last week but we roasted a  pig last monday. Then tuesday was a normal day. I did find a croc jibit  but i dont know what it says because it is in chinese or something.  Then Wednesday was crazy and that is what most of the email will be  about but Elder Johnson had to do some baptism interveiws for the  sisters and it was exciting to say the least. Thursday was a normal day  again. The best part of thursday was our morning keke ride where we got  to listen to Buffalo Soldier. It made me happy and reminded me of  baseball and my man Kurt Felix. Then friday I had an exchange with Elder  Spears. He made me pancakes 🥞 for breakfast with buttermilk syrup. It  was pretty good. The rest of the day was fun, he had some baptism  interveiws to do to so I got to hang out with elder Phillip all day too.  One bad thing is that both times I have went to elder Spears’s  apartment I have gotten a sore throat. The last one lasted for like a  week and this time it feels way worse. That kinda put a dampener on the  weekend. Saturday was a little rough, I didnt sleep very well and my  body was sore so that mixed with the sore throar kinda sucked. We did  make spagetti with garlic bread and it was very delicous. Sunday was  good. We filled up the chapel again because it wasnt raining. Its hard  cause when it doesnt rain we need 2 wards but whennit does only like 10  people come so nobody knows what to do. After church we had a baptism  for a lady named Ester. Then sunday night dinner was potato leaf with  crab. It was way better than the casava and the crab was really good.  Then this morning we decided to do something fun so we woke up and went  golfing ⛳️ It was awesome but it was definetly africa golfing. They gave  us like 4 caddies which kinda sucked because we had to pay them but we  didnt lose any balls cause there was a kid chasing after them. The  prices were kinda expensive for here in salone but they were still  cheaper than the cheepest amarica prices so it wasnt to bad.

Post 10 part 2
Now  back to wednesday cause it was such a crazy day. We started the day at a  normal lesson in the market. Then we took a keke ride to the sisters  area. They told us to be there by by 11 and they didnt show up till  about 11:30. Then when they came they told us we needed to take a motor  bike to get to the first interveiw. Our mission is a little special  because normally this would be against the standards but certain places  we are allowed to ride motorcycles 🏍. This was not one of the areas we  were allowed to ride them. But we got on because they said that it was a  45 minute walk and they werent going to wait for us. About halfway  there we were going up a hill and we had to stop for a bike that was  coming down the hill. We kinda tipped over but the guy driving stopped  us from going all the way down. Then when we started to go again and the  driver hit the gas a little to hard. Because we were on a hill the bike  did a wheelie and then dumped us off the back and flipped over top of  us. Elder Johnson and I were unscathed but the driver got a few cuts  cause he held on to the bike while it slid down the hill we were on. We  then walked to the top of the hill and got back on the bike. 😅 When we  got to the house the sisters had been waiting for like 15 min. But we  went inside and it was literally the nicest house ive been in here.  Elder Johnson started the interveiw and me and the Sisters went upstairs  to visit with the husband. But the husband was watching Sing the movie  and so we just ended up watching that. The interveiw was really long so I  ended up watching like the whole movie. Then we had a bikeride back and  had 4 more interveiws to do. It took the entire day, just over 6 hours.

Post 10 part 3
Everyday  here comes with a new challenge and a new adventure. Its actually kinda  crazy some of the things that we come across as we go throuough our  day. Like just finding random things on the ground or things that  happen. Funny story from this week actually was that we were proseliting  sunday after church and I saw a guy wearing a Be Kind...Kind Like Josh  shirt. Idk if any Mesquite people will know what that Is but anyone from  Boulder should probably know know. We went and talked to him and he  said that he would come to church next week. I even got a picture with  him to proove that I found the shirt 😂.

Anyways this weeks post is kinda long but I hope that everyone is doing good.

-Elder Smith