And now he builds roofs!!! (But he's tired...and someone is watching Star Wars at the internet cafe......ahhhhh!!!)

April 11

So I finally got an arrival date from him!!  This was all he said......

My date that I will be flying home is August 1st. I will then probably be landing in Edmonton August 2nd.

.....but I'm glad he's still focused on his mission and trust he'll be happy to be home.

This week we did an INTENSE service project. We took off and built a roof. Sadly I did not take pictures.  (AHHHHH, he's hardly taken ANY pictures on his mission!!!) If you had seen the pictures you probably would not have been happy hahaha, so me and this one brother were on the top of the roof of this family (very very very poor family) and we were taking off the roof. I have never seen so many ants in my life. And I have never seen so many cockroaches in my life. Red cockroaches, black cockroaches, yellow cockroaches, white cockroaches, orange cockroaches, big ones little ones, HUGE ones, tiny ones. It was a zoo. Then the brother lifted up one part of the roof to take apart and we saw the biggest spider I have seen in my mission. It was a tarantula, white and skin colored. The brother killed that thing pretty quick. But it was an AWESOME project. The ants and cockroaches didn't bother me I'm not scared of those. And the new roof looked great!!!!

My best guess of the spider he might have encountered - Devon hates spiders BTW

April 25

First of all, I am under serious temptation right now.  Someone behind me in the internet cafe is watching Star Wars 7 on their computer..... MAN this is hard. But its not a sin to listen.... because I cant make myself deaf...

Things are really good down here! This week was a good week, lots of things happened, we had our interviews and special training, and we had lots of little miracles happen throughout the week, so that was nice.

In my last email to Devon, I asked him why he thinks he's been so tired lately - "are you eating enough, sleeping ok?" etc.  To which he replied:

Well lets see. I've been getting up at 6:30 in the morning for 21 months straight. And I've been walking ALL DAY for 21 months, without a single nap EVER, speaking another language, burning my brain trying to think and understand the peoples needs and help them with the Spirit, I've been working out all mornings, sweating like a dog in the summers, and having to deal with issues with members, missionaries and investigators, and for 7 months I was responsible for all the missionaries of a whole stake. For 21 months straight. Wouldn't you be pretty tired after all that?

The FIRST time I've had hint of complaint from him......so I wrote him a POEM (see the next blog post)