So they do celebrate the 4th of july here, well at least ay the american embassy. SO all of us missionaries went there and they had a fourth of july party of sorts, kinda, okay it was really wierd cause everyone was white! it like was a little different for me, i cant imagine what the other misionaries thought, it really kinda felt like i was home or sorts, cause there was grass, white people, blue red decorations, hamburgers, hot dogs, sun, and COUNTRY MUSIC!
the music i felt really really guilty cause i knew a lot of the song and it reminded me of 'babylon' it was really wierd, lots of peace corps workers, other missionaries from other hurches, embassy workers, and some businessmen, but we totally stuck out cause everyone was in causal clothes and we were all dressed up. it was really wierd, i cant explain it, made me miss home and you guys, so that day i probably thought about home the most so far, but once that was done it was back top work as usual!
things are going pretty good here, we dropped alot of our non serious investigators, and so we did a lot of tracking, a lot, and going and searching all our referrals, i had a really cool experience on saturday, so saturday, they branch had football game they hosted, and it was the missionaries against the branch members, mae wea(blackman in Fong) vs yovo(whiteman in Fong). it was a blast and they slaughter us, we only scored a couple of goals and i scored one cause we wrapped un the goalie and dragged him away from the goal.
but afterwards, i was soooo beat, my companion was worst, so i convinced him thorugh physical force to go out and do tracking, we were pretty far away from our apartment in the outskirts of our cartier, and i was eating a fan ice,(more about later) and i looked down this street and i was really really curious what was down it, more than usual, so i decided that i wanted to go find out and my comp said it was a dead end, but we went down it anyways; at the very very end my comp started talking with this guy and i wasnt interested really, while i was standing there i saw this guy motion me over and and so i decided to venture out on my own and try to have a conversation with him, the guy that called me over wasnt serious at all, but his friend was amazing! so i sat down and started to tell him about myself and why i was here, it was really difficult cause my french skills are lacking but with the help of some animated hand motions i taught this guy the first lesson! by myself, answering all his questions and invited him to church! oh he was so interested acting and enthusatic and he understood my french!
so sunday rolls around and i was anxiously waiting but he never showed up. really disappointing but hopefully next week or ill run into him again, but i thought wow, here am i, amazingly tired, qnd there was this road with a dead end, and at the very very very very end was this guys that i talked to, and taught him, just a good example of following through with my feelings! *
oh yeah so there is this thing we went to, called a revenon festival,this one was like a block away from our apartment, basically it is where everyone gathers in the street, and these people dressed up in these colorful costumes go around and just whip people with branches, its used to be a vodo sort of a thing back in the day but some people took it way to seriously! it was kinda funny to watch, everyone running away from these revenons cause if the revenon catches you, you have to pay some money to them, they tried to get me to pay and they were whipping me with the stupid stick kinda hard, then i think they realiwed how much bigger i was than them and i was kinda getting mad so they left the yovo alone.
So july 12th we will have a couple of baptisms so we are pretty excited for that, a lot of traking again this week, well i guess not a much as i think but yeah, anways i dont think there i much else so, hope you guys had a happy fourth and ill talk to ya later!
love
elderly
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