April 11, 2016.....Well, if I didn't email you, who else in Africa would?"

well if i didn't email you who else in Africa would? hahahaha this week
was a long one. I got the flu (cause its flu season and I'm a disease
magnet. so I ended up having to waste tons of time and money on rest
and medicine. We got out at the end of the week to go see some people.
We are teaching one kid who is super ready. his name is kondwani. we
have taught him all of the restoration and about 2/3  of the plan of
salvation. He is super spiritually directed and this week we want to
try and visit him thrice so we can blast out the rest of the plan of
salvation and gospel of Jesus Christ. whatever tho. just working
hahahaha will you send me some recipes? I can buy whatever i need to i
am about to become sick of instant noodles cause  I've eaten them for dinner
every single night for the past month and a half. I just want some
different food hahahaha. well transfers are next week.. actually they
are on Saturday so one of us is probably being transferred so pray for
me. other news. our branch is sorta falling apart. The branch
president last week announced that when you are at the pulpit and are
giving a talk there is not allowed to be a translator anymore so if
you give a talk in English it just gonna be in English if its in
chichewa its just gonna be in chichewa. so our entire branch is
throwing a fit and just about on the verge of apostasy cause they (the
people) suggested that the article of faith that says that men may
worship how when and what they may means that we can change the rules
to translate the sacrament meeting. almost all of the women of the
branch didn't come to church cause almost none of them can speak
English... so yeah we had a massive debate about it in branch council
meeting in which me an my companion gave a dump truck load of fire to
anyone saying that they should just do what they want hahahaha. but I
just pray that it gets sorted out.

Elder Scatena

March 28, 2016......"They're aiming to make this area a stake in about 2 years"

Hello Everyone!

so this week was super good, but kinda boring. we had zone conference and then district conference. they are aiming to make this area a stake in about 2 years... so after im home. hahaha. me and my companion had a lot of success this week. we met a lot of people and got to teach a lot. we should be baptizing like 3 people on the 24 of this next month. transfers are either at the end of this week or the end of next. im pretty sure that me and my comp are gonna be split cause we've been together for almost 18 weeks now.  dk im not too excited. I dont like transfers. they give me stress. yeah tho a companionship, it is like marriage. except its like a marriage in which your wrists are shackled together. cause you have to be together 24/7 lol. i just miss lying down in my room and binge watching random tv series on Netflix hahahaha 

.  We taught a man about the restoration this week and he was begging us to be baptized at the end. so that was cool. idk nothing much is new. im reaching 7 months in like 4 or 5 days so that kinda weird. idk when that happened but it did hahaha. in two months after that ill be at 9 months and i swear just yesterday it was Ammon reaching his 9 month mark. idk whats going on. and where the time is going but it sure isn't sticking around hahaha.

Elder Scatena