"no wishy washy stuff"

So, first ill answer all your questions. What i usually do is i have cereal for breakfast, and then something with my tortillas for lunch. with any left overs that people give us. I have never made dinner because they provide us with on each night. so that's really good. And its awesome because i am getting so many authentic Polynesian food and Mexican food. like really good stuff. And i dunno the people here are always trying to feed us. the Poly's like to give us food and rides. it feels like im in another country because there are a lot of times when I'm in a home and they dont speak english. I hear lots of Tongan, Spanish, Swahili, and Arabic and random African dialects. Only because we are teaching two different families from Sudan. ones a member and one is James Deng. But the food is also damaging to my weight. we dont get to work out as much. and im doing my best to stay fit. haha kulu walks fast so thats good. I am aroung 195 right now. which is not bad. I haven't gained in the field. but I gained a little in the MTC.

 

And for right now mom i can't think of anything i need. i just bought a nice new bike. i got a discount and it super nice. i bought it for $300 so that will take a hit to my bank account. but i don't think ill need to buy anything else really. We are still walking however because Kulu doesn't have a bike. Some other Elder took it in the other mission. Did you know? our mission was split right before i got to the field. so its even smaller now. That's why they had me wait till the end of august to report.

 

It is getting cold mom, i have an umbrella and hats. ill be fine for right now. i just need to buy boots and maybe a scarf. i have gloves. found some in the room I'm in from the last missionary. Today we are carving pumpkins and maybe playing rugby. kinda excited. i hope I'm on Elder Kulu's team.

 

So this week was okay. Talked to a lot of people who are just not interested. Our tracting/talking to people kinda goes like this. We greet them and force them to introduce themselves and shake there hands, then we don't give them a chance to speak and we just ask straight up if they have had the opportunity to be baptised. if they say no we tell them about the book of Mormon and restoration and ask if we can set up a time to meet with them. forward and direct. make them make a decision. no wishy washy stuff. if they say yes then we ask what faith and then we talk about the book of Mormon and the restoration and ask if we can set up a time to tell them more. hahaha basically the exact same thing. we are right too the point here. We are trained to not waste time on people that done want to hear what we have to say and to only talk to people who are prepared to hear the word. the work is increasing!!! This week we ran into an anti inactive member. Ya its so hard talking with people like her because she has absolutely no light left. none. she said she believes the stuff online. And we all know how truthful things are online. and she interprets all the scriptures wrong and when we false her she gets angry. so we dont talk to her anymore. there is no use. we also ran into some J.W.s haha. any advice Dad? we dont want to bash but that doesn't mean i cant be prepared with what they are going to throw at me. they didn't want to talk. they just walked away from us.

 

So my big miracle, are teaching a man named James Deng. he has a family with 6 kids and a wife. we are just teaching him because its hard enough just to get him to understand us. English is his 3rd or 4th language. So we try to teach him in Arabic. We give him a pamphlet and have him read it. then we try to explain it in english to him. Its good cause he is catholic and knows the bible really well. so he understand a lot. We got him an english Book of Mormon as well as an Arabic one. and he reads from them everyday. he wants to be baptized because he sees that we do it the same way as Jesus and he understand that we are the only church that has the authority. he knows Joseph Smith is a prophet and also Thomas S Monson is a prophet. i think we will have a translator with us next lesson with him. we took him to temple square. They didn't have an Arabic speaking sister... :( so we did our best i english. the funny part was the sister didn't speak english too well themselves so it was broken English talking to broken English and i was translating for both of them! hahahaha. but it was a good lesson and he said he had a really good feeling. he is really humble and so kind. the family is sooo good too. they are always cleaning the house. the oldest daughter who is only 6 or 7 leads the cleaning of the kitchen. she is awesome.  and there family is soo good. i really really want this for them. he is big on family and i want him to be sealed in the temple!!!!!!!

 

ya mom so keep me posted on the fam because only you, dad and Hannah write me! and Dan and Ben i have there stickers on my name tag. and Spencer wrote me once and claire wrote me once.. but its okay family i know your busy. and actually i would have time to read all of them and answer all of you. soo its all good. that goes for letters too. short and sweet are the best. I'm doing really great. I love you all. Keep up the good work and ALWAYS stand as a witness. that's the best missionary work that we can do.

 

Love Elder Salmon