August 17, 2015

  When I checked the email this morning...Carson had already written 52 minutes earlier.  So then I was worried that I would have missed him and our little Monday morning chat.  But after about 45 minutes of waiting and waiting and waiting...he came back!  Yay!

(Just a little side note...he mentions how we had a bad week....we just had a few breakdowns...the lawn mower....the garage doors and then Saturday I innocently went along on the Bishops Youth Hike.  I wondered why no other youth leaders showed up.  Just the bishopric.  And ended up going on the most miserable hike known to mankind.  So I may have cried on Carson's shoulders a bit trying to get a bit of sympathy.  That's all.)

Hey mom ya all is well.. i was bout to say that i had a pretty bad week but it seems that you guys bet me that side.

  As for us we did absolutely nothing this week. We stayed in kitale monday to wednesday. and then left wednesday afternoon for eldoret thursday we had Zone conference which was very  very boring i was wanting to sleep but very body kept calling on me so i couldn't sleep. we left for kitale that night and arrived in Kitale stayed there the night and then left for our areas on firday. WE went and saw a family which fed us which was a highlight, and then sat Mormon helping hands we went and cleaned up a police station.  and then after that we went and helped cleaned the church

  lots of fun. 

sunday we went to church are guy to be baptized didin't show up so we had to push his baptism until forther notice. which really sucked. 

But then a family from riruta came and saw me which was super super awesome then even had us for food again so williams was super happy. but other than that not much has happened this week. 

But ya don't worry no matter what home is home if it was all roses and diamonds it wouldn't home. Thats how i remember it and thats how i want to see it... Just because there is arguments and contention we all was overcome it thats all that matters. 

Hope to chat with you today.

Miss you lots
And love you all

Awww Carson.  You and your letters always make me happy.  Sorry you had a rough week too.  Maybe we are doing something right so ol Satan is trying to bring us down.  We'll have a better week coming up for sure.

Sorry about your baptism getting pushed back.  Ya that would really suck.

But cleaning out a police station must have been interesting.  Why did you have to clean up that?

Looks like you wrote almost an hour ago.  Hope I didn't miss you.  Love you.

That was just what the branch decided i guess...

no i m still hear what up

Did you find anything exciting in the police station?  Were there any prisoners in there at the time?  Did you have to pay any bribes in there?  Ha ha.  Must have been quite the experience.

So zone conf was a snoozer huh.  Too bad.  Did you ever get any more packages from us?  It would be interesting to know how many actually got to you.  Maybe I don't want to know.

What else are you doing today?  Anything exciting coming up this week?


Nothing to interesting... not very many people where there so... ha ha 
ha good one.
nope not this one.  just hanging out in kitale.

So no packages?  Aww I'm sorry about that.  We'll have to make it up to you in a couple weeks.  :)

Dad just woke up and says hi.  He's headed out to feed/train his horses and then start painting that last wall.  But it rained last night so we'll see if it's actually dry enough.

What are you eating today?  Any kale on that list?   What did those families make you that made you so happy?

Ok Ok no problem mom thanks

we don't know yet we don't have any water in the house so it might be 

fasting today and tomorrow.

They were just friends from riruta...and when they came they really 

praised us and said they were missing me and feeding us. because they

don't have any full missionaries that side.

What do you mean no water?  How can you have no water?  Are you seriously not eating today and tomorrow?  WHAT?  Oh two weeks can't happen fast enough for me!

That's too bad about Riruta.  You liked that area if I remember.  Thank goodness they came to feed you.  Maybe they could come back today.

So why the no water?

The water company are having problems... so ya we ll have to see... it 
is not for two weeks half of that i ll be this side and eldoret so it is just today.

How often does the water company have problems?  So you are only there for another week and then eldoret for a week?  Why so many changes?

It shouldn't be for too long but we ll just have to see.  We have
district conference this week and then traveling to Nairobi next week.
and then 3 days in a plane.
So ya lots of fun soon.

That sounds kind of yucky.  If you're doing all that travelling...how can any missionary work get done?

Oh well.  Hope you enjoy.  I guess I should let you get going.  I'm feeling kind of guilty sitting here and watching your dad paint.  And i'm just sitting here.  

Hope you have a great week.  Good luck with the water and all your travelling.  Hope that baptism comes around for you.  Enjoy but work hard too.  Love you so much!

thanks again mom hope you do too.
Love you lots

Here's Ken's letter....

Hey for sure dad we need you around. you need to write all of that knowledge of yours and put it in a book. Ken's guide to life would be pretty neat and probably a best seller too. 

But ya for me all is well. everyone keeps asking me that am i excited scared, nervous. realistically it is a combination of everything. i m excited to see my family, but i m getting nervous about trying to figure out my way home, kind of nervous that i ll miss my flight or something. 

But now i m really missing mission already, we had a bunch of people from one of my old areas in Nairobi come out this side. and it was great to see them, They were saying they were missing cooking for me and i was was like i miss your DA too really much. If miss could be like this always i would never leave. But then there is funny people sitting there making funny noisiness trying to great a mzungu who speaks in clicks and yells. 

But ya all is going good and i m also getting nervous about those worldy desicions i would have to make soon but overall i m just really happy that i came out... 

Overall all is going well miss you all but i ll be seeing you soon. 

Love you lots 

CArson 

Here's Grandma and Grandpa's letters......

Hey grandma ya all is going well. For the mormon helping hands we went and did community service at the local police station. 

I played the music last week but this week we were late because my comps bike broke

no primary i have tried to avoid that place. 

Ya im really enjoying it is alot of fun. 

Thanks for writing hope to see you soon.

Hey grandpa 

Thanks for the advise love you lots 

and i ll do just that and sprint to the end. For sure the time has been short but it has been alot of fun to get to know and see these people for sure i ll miss the members this side. 

hahah well see but Thanks again 

Love you too

Carson