Wednesday, April 25, 2018

LOCO DE MIERcoles...


April 25, 2018
Another one of Patagonia’s slogans:
-"Built to Endure"...

I’m excited to talk to you guys in a week or so! It seems like this time I’ll have a story or two to tell... Just be sure that you cut me off early! Because I’m gonna have a lot to say and I want to hear more about y’all...

Just quick, I remember after my farewell talk Brother Reavley walked up to me and said, "Watch out for the animals over there, and remember that not all of them walk on four feet...". Prison wasn’t bad. We made it out fine and we got to teach 20+ people, so that’s chill. Can’t say I want to do it again, but its all good. I repeat what I said when I was in being shot at in Kisumu, in that as missionaries these guys can’t do a thing to us, they sure can get close though... I don’t like the police here. And I was talking to some of the other missionaries and they all told me to write a book about my experiences on the mission and that if I did it’d be crazier than any other missionaries... What they don’t understand though is that the things that have been hardest about my mission aren’t the experiences I’ve had to endure, but the ones I’ve missed. Everything that has happened since I’ve been out here makes things like this only another drop in the bucket and at the end of the day I feel a whole lot like Alma. Alma 29:5-6:

5 Yea, and I know that good and evil have come before all men; he that knoweth not good from evil is blameless; but he that knoweth good and evil, to him it is given according to his desires, whether he desireth good or evil, life or death, joy or remorse of conscience.
6 Now, seeing that I know these things, why should I desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called?

Considering the past year and a half, the next six months oughtta be exciting. Don’t worry too much, we weren't held for too long... Only for 16 1/2 hours, but it was a loooong night! I might say it was more frightening than the whole "elk whistle" experience but... We did have a nice testimony building experience though! Priesthood is real! Church is true! Gospel blesses lives! But I guess I got a lot of interesting stories to tell...

Also, my new companion came yesterday! His name is Elder Mahanzu from Zimbabwe! Super cool and he's finishing his mission in 6 weeks! Working hard here in El-d! again. Though don’t be nervous or sad or anything like that ALL IS WELL! the gospel gives us reason to smile on our way into prison and smile on the way out! :) :) :) Just get excited because it’s an awesome story with everything! Action, comedy, horror, romance, heartbreak, betrayal, false accusations about our documents to live here being false and how we are actually spies, and gospel! Really, a mix of everything! It'll be nice, but I’m outta time so I’ll talk to ya later guys, love you!

aidan 
(that’s what they called me in prison and it was weird to hear it again! haha)

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