Hey everyone!
This week was really cool, I still love it here, they people are amazing and in most parts of the city people like us, in other parts they are really racist, it kinda sucks being a minority, but it’s all good. To answer a few of your questions I haven't seen any monkeys yet because I'm in the city. However, I do see spiders that are the size of my face, rats the size of a house cat, and cockroaches the size of a small bus, not really but they are huge. Anyways there is this crazy old lady who just sits on her door step all day in one of the apartment buildings we teach at and every time we pass by she gets all excited and waves and smiles. But the last few days she wasn't there so I thought she died, but good news! She was there last night! Seeing her just makes my day ha ha! There are a lot of crazy people here and they are so funny I love them! The best is after dark when all the drunk people start coming out, drunk Africans are even more friendly than sober ones.
Today we went to a really cool beach where there is a light house and wrecked ship. This country is so beautiful it’s awesome! Then we went to the Grande Hotel. It was build by the Portuguese and use to be really nice but after the Africans took over they just turned it into another apartment building. It was like walking into a ruin but with garbage and dead rats everywhere. We took some really cool pictures at the top. Oh and speaking of pictures I can send them via email but I have to use a different computer so I will send them I just don’t know when.
I found out that this is the 2nd farthest away mission from SLC besides Madigascar so not by much. We gave one investigator a baptism date for the 17th of May so I'm way excited for that. I found out it is pretty safe for you guys to come and pick me up, and I decided that it would be a really cool experience for Tyler and Kaylee if they came too but I'll leave that one up to you but its totally fine by me, I think it would be cool, they will learn alot in the first few hours of being here I know I did. Everything is great here, my language is getting better and better all the time and my comp is great.
That's cool Mitch is going to Zimbabwe but it’s kinda a mess right now I guess. I don’t know if you hear much about it cuz you’re in the US but here it’s all over the place, the president I guess his term is over but he likes being pres so he's not leaving but the guy who won the election isn't likin that idea so I don’t know. There is alot I can get here like razors, shaving cream, toothpaste most of the basic stuff I can get but I'm not sure about him. Tell him to bring a lot of American candy cuz you won’t get any in Africa. Other than that there are a lot of the basic stuff here. I got some mail yesterday actually, 2 dear elders I got the 2nd week in the MTC and a letter from the stake pres. other than that I don’t know how long it takes. Anyways I'm eating pretty much normal, but there are these things called chamooses, they are like meat filled nacho things I don’t know how to explain but they are way good, other than that nothing weird. The computers are in an internet cafe owned by a bunch of Chinese people and the computers are terrible. I got most of my luggage but one bag that should be here soon. I can send pics but I have to use a couple missionaries computer cuz these have viruses but I will soon. Anyways I better go but I'm doing great and the language is coming along great. Hey Kaylee, HAPPY B-DAY!!! I haven't given any blankets out cuz i'm in the city and no one needs them. I better go, thanks for everything! I love you!
Love, Elder Brown
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