07.04.11

Happy Birthday America!!  blow up some thing for me... even if it's just a firework :) 
So this week has been one to remember.  Thursday night, Elder Frost and I went into town and met up with some other missionaries in Nairobi and had dinner at a very nice restaurant.  Endless ribs!!!  it was delicious, i packed down 11 racks before i tapped out.  Both Elder Frost and I were so full the next morning that we didn't even eat breakfast.   This week we have a crazy schedule, tomorrow is zone conference. and Saturday we are planning on 8 baptisms, there was suppose to be 16, but we don't have enough clothes and the confirmations would take way to long in the sacrament meeting on sunday.  so we talked with the leaders in the ward and decided that the best thing to do is to spilt the group in two.  half will be baptized this weekend and the other half the next weekend. 
At the chapel in Buru buru there is a big field where the members can plant a garden.  usually we go there on tuesdays to help people dig or weed or do whatever they need.  well a couple of weeks ago, nobody was there to help, so we decided to plant our own.  we burnt the grass down and then dug up the soil.  then the next week we planted carrots and watermelon.  well believe it or not the seeds have begun to sprout and now we have little mounds of water melon and a couple of rows of carrots. it's pretty cool to see little seeds spring up out of the ground.  i hope that i'll be around to see the watermelon get a little big, i doubt that i'll be able to eat it, but maybe i'll be able to see it.   well have a good week and enjoy the celebrations.  love ya all!!
Elder Larsen