First of all I had a bit of a shock last night. President Packard called me late last night and told me that he was doing a "mid-transfer transfer". He told me that I will be leaving Manga, and going down to Maputo and I will be serving as an office missionary for the next few transferes and that I would leave on Tuesday... So I am going to Maputo tomorrow. I know alot of missionaries think the office sucks but I think I'll like it. You get a car, a nice phone, you work close with President and the other leaders. There is a saying here that office elders were less valiant in the pre-mortal life ha ha ha... that use to be so funny. No I'm excited. I get to drive again!!!! In a stick shift truck!!!! and everyone in Maputo drives crazy so I'll fit right in!!! I probably shouldn't be as excited as I am but I'm way excited! It's kinda sad that I have to leave everyone so soon but oh well at least I have a few days to do it! I'm also going from the jungle to the biggest city in the country so that will be a big change. I'm excited to get to Maputo and see it. It's a completely different mission. They have good food, big grocery store, nice houses. It should be good.
For Christmas we went to the orphanage and I gave out all the toys, it was fun and the kids loved them. I took a bunch of pictures also. We just did like a fishing thing with the toys through the window and then played some games. They sang some cool African songs which was cool. After that we went to the big chapel and watched "It's a Wonderful Life" which was way good! Maybe it's just cuz I haven't seen a real movie in so long but I really liked that movie. Then we ate and did a gift exchange it was pretty fun. It was the first time I really missed everyone though but the next day wasn't bad just that night. For New Years we went to the chapel in the city and played a bunch of board games, ate, and we also watched "Madagascar" and "Remember the Titans". I really liked "Remember the Titans", I don't think I had seen it before but it was a really good movie.
This week nothing really happened, with all the parties it's hard to find people at home so we didn't get much work done. But we did teach the diamond dealer and it was a great lesson! He said that he really felt something about what we were saying and that he would read and pray about the BofM. He's a great guy. Anyways that's about all I have. Thanks for everything! I love you! Elder Filho
Questions:
1. Tell us about the ward party. We didn't stick around, but we found out they started a fire in the primary room to cook with...
2. In some of the pictures you are eating at restaurants. What kind of food do you get in restaurants there? Do you like it? They have something kinda like a steak, and then they put a fried egg on it with rice and french fried potatoes. Or they have hamburgers, or pizza, beans lots of stuff. Its pretty good I like it.
Thanks fam (Click on the pictures to make them bigger)