September 13, 2010

Mema woaha! or I guess it'd be memo wo akye for you guys right now since it's morning there. How is it going back home? It's going great here, it was a really good week. We just got done playing ultimate frisbee on the beach.

The dinosaur bookmark is sweet!!! I use it all the time!!! Just pictures of family and friends really, I need more of those. Everybody asks to see pictures and I don't have many. (Editor's note-Griffin would like pictures!)So this week was pretty sweet! I went on splits with Elder Keller in Yamaronsa on Wednesday, so that was fun. Elder Keller is from Salt Lake and has one year let. Tuesday's district meeting was good.

I was going to teach a piano class at the chapel on Wednesday night, but then we went on splits, so that changed that. Literally like everyone in the ward wants to learn how to play the piano, probably 15 people ask me every Sunday to teach them. So I though that I could just teach a class once a week, and if they want to come, they have to bring a friend to come learn too! Everybody wants to learn so bad that they really will bring someone. So I'll do that this week.

Elder Adams' birthday was sweet. The Saunders (the couple missionaries) came by in the morning, brought his b-day packages and a cake! So we sort of had a little party in the morning, had cake for breakfast...haha. Then at dinner at the Pratt's we each got a huge plate of jollof rice and chicken, and then on top of that, a huge bowl of fufu with more chicken!! And we all got three Fantas and banana cakes to top it off. It was huge. We watched the last priesthood session of conference on DVD while we were there, played I-Spy during the songs for Elder Brown (Griffin was in the BYU Men's Choir that sang at the Priesthood Session during April Conference) Brother Pratt thought it was pretty sweet he could see me on the TV! Haha! We were so stuffed that night...I fell asleep nice and early.

Well overall it was another great week in Moree! We'll be having a baptism on Sunday, four people- Augustina, David, Ezra and Kwesi. It'll be at the beach so I'm super excited for that! The people we are baptizing are all really sweet people.

It's starting to get really hot here, the rainy season is coming to a close. Saturday it rained for a while, we had to sit in a house for a while to wait for it to pass. There are like a gazillion funerals going on in Moree and Yamaronsa right ow. They have set times throughout the year that you have to have funerals, they can't have them except for the weekends that are every three months or so.

Sorry to hear about BYU, that really stinks. Seems odd they kept Nelson in....hopefully they get it together for Florida State. Glad the Rangers are staying strong, maybe it's their year!!!!

We had "steak and potatoes" for Elder Adams birthday dinner the day after. His mom sent him a ton of beef jerky and powdered mashed potatoes. The powdered mashed potatoes were awwwwwesome. Idahoan loaded baked powdered mashed potatoes** (see bottom)

Thanks for all the love and support! The work is sweet here! Elder Joseph Sitati is coming to tour the mission the next few days, so we get to hear him speak tomorrow, it'll be sweet!

Yebehyia,
Elder Brown

Griffin has mentioned that it is "sweet" to get stuff like powdered drinks, powdered soups and sauces. If you ever want to send anything to Elder Brown, use the address on the blog page and it's best to use the Flat Rate envelope from the US Postal Service...please do not send electronics or CD's...tape the envelope well! :)