We had a baptism this past week, and it was really good. This woman is totally converted (her name is sister Agnes), and she asked me to baptize her. It was really neat. I'll send the pictures next time, because I don't have so many to send at the moment. I must apologize for that. It's hard because we're only allowed to snap when we're not proselyting, which is almost never. I did make up for it today by shooting a video from the back of my Honda on the way to the cafe. You'll get that when Elder Tippets goes home in May. :)
I know you like hearing about spiritual experiences, so I'll tell you some more about this Festus guy that we baptized two weeks back. So, we started teaching him from a chain sort of thing. We were teaching one person named Daniel, and a neighbor by the name of Ishmael came and joined him. Later, we went to teach Ishmael, and a man named Kenneth (Festus' uncle) was passing by, and stopped to listen, and invited us to his home to teach him (a place we had never proselyted before). We then met with Kenneth to teach him, and Festus joined the lesson. He was baptized three weeks later. Since then, we've started teaching his sister, a friend of his, and two of his neighbors. This whole new place is opening up because of this one EXTREMELY solid convert. It's so awesome!
It's kinda funny how Elder Lancaster and I joke about how we enjoy stopping by his house. His family is really well off, so they have a nice stereo system in their house, and there's TONS of western music playing (think high school dances). It's nice to hear a piece of 'home'. Last time we stopped by, I heard a movie playing inside (shocker! Most people don't have those here), and it sounded somehow familiar. When he came out and greeted us, I asked what he was watching, and he said he was watching Eclipse with his sister (that Twilight movie that was BRAND NEW soon before I left home). I couldn't believe it! It was so funny to me. He also watched 24 a lot, and watches a lot of other popular western shows like Heroes and CSI. It's almost AMERICAN! He recommended this BBC show 'Merlin', in case you're looking for a new television vice. He says it's really good, and from what he described, it sounds awesome. Needless to say, he's my favorite convert. We're going over to his house tonight to watch The Testaments if he has power (he usually does. We haven't had power in 2 months!).
I was thinking today about asking for some recipes. We have just about everything you'd need to do basic baking, save for a mixer. We get to do that by hand. I made those Lehi Roller Mills brownies yesterday, and they're already almost gone. Those instant baking mixes and boxed mac n cheese are probably the best. Still waiting for power to open the cheese to test that stuff out. Maybe we'll make quesadillas with them using Lebanese flat bread (think pita) and some chicken. I dunno. But yeah, any simple recipes you could send would be great. We can substitute milk with powdered, we have eggs, we have butter, in fact, we have just about anything you'd need for a host of very basic food, minus cheese. We don't have too much though. We don't have canned soup, so we can't do those awesome pastas. Pretty much anything we make has to be from scratch. Any ideas you have would be great! Rice is in overabundance, so anything using that would probably be best. Rice pudding recipe? Though we don't have raisins. Or maybe scratch banana pudding, since those never go out of season, and they're EVERYWHERE.
You asked about my cooking skills. Well they aren't bad. There's 100 + 1 ways to cook rice. I only know a few now. If you want to fix a meal of what we typically have for breakfast, here's the recipe (be careful, it's not very good, but it's pretty much all we have):
1 tin can (a measurement) of dry uncooked white rice
1 can of spam cubed
1/2 onion, diced
2 Tbs veggie oil
1/2 Maggi cube (it's a weird type of bouillon cube)
1 tsp Pepi (Chili powder works)
some season salt
1 can of beans in tomato sauce
Directions: Cook rice (however you want it). Saute everything else minus beans in a frying pan until onions go clear, then add beans to heat. Then, eat it on rice. Not super tasty, but it's food.
Here's some fun Krio for you to try: (say them like they look)
"Mi I no able fo do 'em." means "I can't."
"Boku Tankee." means "Many thanks."
"Mi I no sabi wa ting yu da se." means "I don't know what you said."
"Yu sabi wat side wi da go?" means "Do you know where we're going?"
"I da go now-now." means "I'm going now."
I celebrated my 3 month mark last week. That means I'm 1/8 the way done with my mission! ;) Not that anyone's counting. Til next week, sending you all my love!
Love,
Elder Vaughan
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