Love from Elder Louw

 

Love the Members in Malone!

This fast Sunday was a great one for me. I didn't mind fasting because out here on the mission you can never fast too much. I'll take every blessing I can get, or get for my investigators/less actives we are working with. A lady yesterday got up and bore testimony that she use to be scared when people would come over when the missionaries were at her house cuz she didn't know what her friends would think but that the other night when we just happened to stop by and it was her daughter's b-day and people were coming and going she didn't feel a bit embarrassed. In fact she said that she was proud to have us in her home. It just made us feel so good. The lady who said that has only been a member for 7 years and they have the most wonderful fam (young couple, three kids...a missionaries dream fam.) The branch here is small but has some of the greatest members. They are really good to us. Not very often but if we don't have anything to do besides tract and we are tired of doing that, we will stop by a members home to warm up, grab some water and share a spiritual thought. Missionaries are a part of members lives out here. Not like home where you only see the missionaries once a year if your lucky.

Bizarre Foods in Greene

Fact: Tripe (cows stomach) always tastes like cow pies even when it is deep fried because you have to chew it and the batter gets swallowed first.

Why am I eating this? Why am I smiling? Why does my breathe still taste like a cow pie now that my plate is empty?

Thanks for the dinner invite!

One More Good-bye to Elder Williams and Goodbye FOREVER to Tripe

 
 

Moving to Malone 11-30-2009

It’s hard being in Malone now. I feel so far away from everything and since I had been in Greene so long it was like I was leaving home again and going to a far away place were I would know nobody. But it’s all working out. My new comp Elder Johnson is a cool, really funny guy from California. He is trying to make me feel at home. The branch is really small, about 30-40 people show up. I had a ten min talk yesterday for my first Sunday (didn’t know I was speaking till five minutes before sacrament, it was great.) Then Elder Johnson and I taught the combined meeting (the missionaries always teach every 5th Sunday.) So they put me to work fast in this branch. It’s sort of weird though cuz pretty much all the people are converts to the church and so most of them don’t really know the system of things. Our teaching pool is pretty small, only like 5-6 investigators but we have been doing a lot of finding so hopefully we will be able to pick it up soon.

Good-bye Greene

 
 
 

Envying the "Greeny" 11-24-2009

Transfer time…I’m going way north… all the way to the Canadian border…a little town call Malone. About the really cool lady and her 4 boys we have been teaching. Well let me put it this way...she has read the Book of Mormon, the 2010 manual for gospel principles, a few Ensigns, and is now working on the D&C/Pearl. She is just eating it up. She has a date for baptism for the 19 of December. I’m really sad I’m not going to be here for it. This same thing has happened in every single one of my areas I have been in on my mission. Work my buns off…find someone…start teaching them and then I get transferred and they get baptized without me. O well at least the "greeny" will have something to look forward to with Elder Williams.