Elder Daniel Thomas: Kenya Nairobi Mission!

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

6 MONTHS OUT!!!

So today marks my 6 MONTH MARK....... SOOOOOOOO CRAZY!!!

Ha but this past week was pretty good. Lots of interesting stuff!

So the big thing this week was that it was Elder Dobards last week of mission. So most of the week was spent by Elder Dobard packing his things and bragging about going home and how excited he was.... so yeah lets just say it was a little frustrating for me! haha but it was really sad to see him go. We were really good friends and had a lot of fun together. So as a going away "party" the night before he left. we had a little bon fire and burned a lot of stuff that he didn't need anymore. like some old ties. shirts, and other old missionary stuff and also made some no bake cookies and fried up some brownies! (we don't have an oven)haha. but it was pretty fun.

We also got transfer news this week... and i will still be here in Darajani, which is great! My new companion will be Elder Dimingu, from South Africa and he will be district leader. So I'm excited to meet him and get back to work in Darajani!

So because elder Dobard already left, i have been with the Zone leaders Elder Dewitt and Elder Simcock for the past few days here in Mtito Andei. Its been really nice working with them. They are in a really tough area with not much work and a lot of problems in the branch. But its been great to be with them and work. They are super positive and hard working, which is been really helpful to me.

But recently i have started to read the New Testament, and it is awesome!!! I love it soo much. I love reading about the life of our Savior. SO much good insight and teachings! I especially like how it talks about having faith and looking towards the kingdom of God. It has really helped me a lot on mission, given me a lot of comfort and guidance. So grateful for the scriptures! make sure to read the scriptures every day!!

But sorry i don't really have much else to report this week, Cosmas is still doing well and we hope he can be baptized on the18th.

But i love you all!
Elder Thomas (Daniel)

Giraffe Center

Daniel and Joseph are like twins separated by 8 years. They look alike and act alike. Joe has really missed Daniel. Last week while attending our Riggs Reunion, Joe commented that one of my cousin's son reminded him of Daniel. He said it with tears in his eyes. I wrote to Dan and told him of the experience this was his reply:

Just tell joe that i REALLY love him a lot and i miss being with him and playing catch, going to barros, playing games with him, our hand shake, and making jokes together. Joe is sooo awesome i love that little guy! i miss you all but especially my main man, my go to hobbit, JOE !!!!
this one is for joe:
normal hi five, backward hi five, down knuckle bump, up knuckle bump, normal knuckle bump, explode, then come together for a formal handshake. and a BIG SQUEEZE!! cheese please!!! hahhhahahh

Monday, July 29, 2013

Jersey Boys. Got a fresh Ronoldo jersey- for the low price of 300 shillings.
Elders Turner, Skidmore, Dobard and Daniel. They got to play soccer,
it got intense!

Daniel and his goat. Squeeze Please!

Daniel in front of a members house saluting the stars and stripes.

Elder Diodati cut his hair, tried a Mohawk but it didn't look so good.

In front of their prison, I mean apartment. He said it was actually nice.

Darajani sunset

Daniel found this snake on the side of the road.
Don't worry, he poked it to make sure it was dead.

Daniel frying up some delicious chapatis in his wonderful apartment.
He is wearing the beanie he found in the apartment.

Monkey face. All the kids wear these....so he got one for the low price of 100 shillings. Looking fresh as usual!

Githeri- a common food in Kenya. Members love to give it to them.
Not the best batch he's had so a stray dog passing by got a snack.

Elder Dobard and Dan out in the Bush doing work.

July 29, 2013

Mambo,

so this past week was nice! Darajani is getting better! we had lots of less active people come to church, including one guy who i am pretty sure was drunk and also this midget guy! ha it was good to see them there at church.

But this past week we were able to have a good lesson with Jack, our white investigator. It was cool because we got to find out a little bit about him. So he has lived in Kenya his whole life, but i think comes from British background (his grandfather came to Kenya to help build the big railroad tracks that goes through all of Kenya), he speaks perfect Swahili and kikamba. But we were able to start the Restoration with him. He really enjoyed it and also talked a lot about how he enjoyed church and how he really enjoys how we carry out our services. He has already told us that he would like to become a member, even though it takes him an hour to get to church, so we hope that he continues to have that desire and to feel of the spirit! Also met with Cosmas again this week, he is doing super great and has already started living the word of wisdom! he told us he had a problem with tea, but after we talked to him about it, he threw out all his tea and replaced it with drinking chocolate!! ha he is sooo great! hope to have his baptism on the 18 August.

Also this past week i finish the Book of Mormon!! Took me 4 months, but it was awesome to read through it. So much good stuff in there its almost unbelievable, except its not, because its the Book of Mormon, and its true, so yeah its believable!! I challenge all y'all at home to read it, and to pray about it. I really wish i would have read it a lot more before i came on mission, it is truly here to help us come closer to Christ, so READ IT!!!!! 3 Nephi is super awesome!

But Kenya is awesome as usual! This past week there was a lot of campaigning in our area for some position in Parliament here or something like that. People were going crazy!! hahah it was really funny to watch like 30 people hanging on to the side of a car shouting and playing loud kamba music trying to get people to vote for their candidate! haha lots of drunk crazy people running around, so that was interesting for sure!

But mission is great! this will be my last week with elder Dobard!! it has flown by, he goes home this week so i will have a new companion soon! ha elder Dobard was super crazy, but I'm going to miss him a lot. we had a lot of fun!

But i love you all, have a super week!

Elder Daniel Thomas