Your Smiling Face

things i do on p-day.... good question. :)

today we walked up the biggest hill in francistown, it took us two minutes.
this place is so incredibly flat that you can see all the way into zimbabwe
and south africa from the top of that two minute hill! we clean our house,
our car, buy groceries (at the local pick and pay where we take care of all
our food needs because we cook most of our food. rarely there is a time
where the members cook for us but that is very rare.) today we are going to
get sister randria's hair braided and then we will be slaughtering a
chicken! i am sort of really excited about that but don't tell dad.

are there kitchens in their houses?

most of the houses are concrete boxes, they are small, about the size of the
kitchen at our house. usually they have a small portable stove that they can
bring out during dinner and put away for the rest of the day. they do more
of their cooking outside with a dutch oven over fire.

running water?
they have a spicket in their front yard and that is all the running water
they have.

toilets?
outhouses all the way baby

the heat?
i love it!

knee highs?
i ditched those months ago

car, bike, or walk?
car :) and everyone drives on the left side of the road, my poor companion,
i think the Lord is really looking out for us because i know we should have
gotten into a lot of car accidents by now.

i should let you know, the living conditions of most of the people here is
NOT and i mean is nothing like how we as sister missionaries live. we live
in a palace that has a full kitchen, a two car garage, airconditioning in
every room, tiled floors, two whole baths and one half bath, an electric
fence, a security system and all the doors and windows have bars. literally,
it is like a palace/fortress. because of the electric fence, we often kill
snakes and chameleons by accident, last week we killed two chameleons and
today we killed a snake. turns out they can be electrocuted.

it was good to talk to you on christmas, i am glad i have such a blessed
family, i agree, skype is amazing! tate is big. his little voice is so cute,
i loved the story about tate, if i wasn't on a mission i would tell everyone
i met.

we have an investigator here who has a son attending school at U of U, he
was baptized in utah and sent us to his mother to teach her. he came here
for the holidays and we were able to meet him last night. he is a very nice
person, just like all of the people here. i got his email and his number so
that when he gets home you can call him and invite him over for sunday
dinner :). sorry if that wasn't ok, i did it anyway. karli, he is twenty and
is a very funny and outgoing person, i think he should be your new best
friend!



i love you all very much, is there anything else you would like to know?
keep me posted on the family and what you are learning in your gospel study
:)

cheers,
sister blum