Women gathering sticks (Click on the pictures for a better view)

Wow this week has flown by for me, it feels like yesterday I was here emailing, but ya things here were much better this week. We spent a lot of time knocking on doors but no one let us in for like 3 apartment buildings so that kinda sucked but oh well. We will have a baptism this transfer on the last day of the transfer however. She is a great lady who just needed to figure out a house situation. Her name is Luisa, she's in her 30's I think and she's great. She said in her baptism interview that she wants me to baptize her so I'm way excited about that.

Here's the questions. I put the answers under the questions:
1. How is the Language is coming?
I have my good days and my bad days but over all it’s going pretty well. I can understand every word from some people and almost nothing from other people just depends on the person. But in Beira everyone talks really fast and everyone mumbles so it’s really hard to hear them as it is. But I can communicate well.

2. How's the food? Have you tried anything unusual? Do you ever eat with members?
The food isn't bad, I miss fast food and milk but it’s not bad. We eat occasionally with one member family and they cooked this fish last time... you know how much I like fish... and it was the ugliest looking fish I had ever seen! It was about the length from my elbow down to the tips of my fingers and almost just as wide and about 6 inches thick... but it was so good!!! I loved it which is way weird but it really was way good.

3. Have you seen any unusual customs?
Nothing too bad, whenever you eat anything in their houses they bring out a cup of water and a bucket and pour it on your hands while you wash them that's kinda weird but not too bad. And when you knock on a door you yell "excuse me" into the window after you knock. Everyone has a cage type thing made of rebar around their doors so there is about a 4 by 4 foot area between the door and the cage. Usually people will just talk to you through the cage but if there is a young girl who lives there they have her answer the door because they hear a young man’s voice. She comes out, opens the gate and will get right up within inches of you sometimes just to talk. The personal bubble thing doesn't exist here.
I think that’s about all that happened this week. I love you! Thanks for everything!
Love Elder Brown