Dear everyone,
If anyone asks how I am doing tell them... I'M SO GREAT! Mom, thank you for the motherly advice, although, you should probably tell my companion that, she doesn't eat anything. She pretends to eat by putting a lot of food on her plate, but after taking a couple bites, she gives me the rest of it because she is full. One thing I have learned to do is to never take very much because I know she will always end up filling my plate. If I say no, she will sneak it on when I am not watching, or she will feed it to the little kids around her. My Kenyan companion is a funny one! I love her very much, she is a great missionary and we are having a great time serving people around us. Sadly, this is her very last Monday on mission, she will become the dearly departed this time next week :( But the good news is, she is still going strong AND I will be getting a brand new little missionary, either from Zimbabwe or Zambia. Pretty excited about that, any tips for being a trainer?
There is a heat wave blowing through Botswana right now. It started two days ago and is expected to be over by Wednesday. Yesterday it was 37 celsius. today it is forcasted to be 38 and tomorrow 39. whatever the forecast says, it is HOT!
We were meeting with a member yesterday who has a pretty amazing story, right now she is suffering from a brain tumor and is here in Botswana visiting her children. She is going back to South Africa this week for her final radiation treatment. this sister started having headaches about two years ago, didn't think anything of it until they got worse and worse and lasted for a long time. so she started going to a specialist who didn't tell her anything. after a while of no success, she went to a random doctor who decided to run some type of test on her. When the results came back they didn't really show anything, except for one of the results (that the doctor didn't ask for). at first he was confused because he didn't ask for that result but then he realized that there was something there. from there she went in for a scan and found that there was a 2 cm big tumor just millimeters away from her optic nerve. she has now been battling this tumor for about 6 months. the amazing thing is that she has so much faith and never wants to think of herself. when another sister in our ward got sick, she went over to her house to help her clean, she found that the woman didn't have food, not even a broom, or a mop to clean the floor. so this sister went and got her all the groceries she would need for a week, a mop, a broom, cleaning supplies and the works, then she cooked for her everyday until she felt well enough to cook for herself! this woman is truly incredible. I hope all of us can learn something of her example. let us be more christlike in reaching out to our friends and neighbors.
the work continues, and i love it here in bots. ke a go rata tata!
sister blum
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