Well, I DID just have a huge email composed for you... which the computer deleted. I'm really not happy about that right now... >:-(
It's funny hearing you talk about your technology and gadgets back home. It's hard for me to even think about those sorts of things here. $500 for a gadget in my head equals 5 months of food. Man, why waste it? I get by on $4 a day, buying my own food, paying my own transport, everything. I'm excited to try my new skills when I get home.
Speaking of food, we have a free dinner tonight. My companion spent the morning foraging for snails, and he got a HUGE bucket of them that we'll fry up tonight. No worries, there'll be a lot of pictures. Being in an all-African district is so dang awesome! Snail is actually really good... I don't know why we make fun of the French so much for eating them... I think they're good. My companion is a lot of fun. It was actually pretty funny, because he disappeared into the banana grove in our compound (pictures of that forthcoming) and came out thirty minutes later with a bucket full of slimy goodness!
At the moment, the internet is being exceedingly crappy, so I'm trying to work that out. I'm here at the church, so I'm surprised by this problem.
To answer your question that I can remember, Elder Holland is coming in three weeks, so yes, we'll be seeing him. They've arranged for us to have a one-hour Q&A period with him. Sweet, eh? I'm prayerfully considering anything I might want to ask him. It’s unlikely, considering that the gospel of Jesus Christ is so simple to understand, even for the unlearned. The only questions that missionaries tend to ask are of deep doctrine, and I don't really even have questions about that.
Oh, I loved the snow pics by the way, but, honestly, I'm a little scared... Why? Uh, well, I get cold here... at around 80 degrees... O.o So, uh, in your next package, could you please, uh, send one of my hoodies? (Wow, did I just ask for that aloud??) That way I can wear it at night AND use my fan, thus protecting me from those vile mosquitoes. We all want that, right? Without it, I just get way too cold. I put it on the lowest setting when I lay down, and at around midnight I just shut it off because I'm shivering. Crazy, huh?
The computer has never been this fussy here. Lets face it, Liberia has just been a place of affliction for me, hasn’t it? I can’t wait to go back to Sierra Leone. That’s where I want to be right about now…
So again, sorry! This email will have to do for this week. Next week will be better; I promise! I love you! Have a wonderful week!! :D
Love,
Elder Vaughan
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