February 17, 2014
helloooo family!
thank you for your wonderful letters!
it was a good week this week! nothing revolutionary but just a hard but good
week.
so on wednesday we had a dinner with
sister aurora. shes angolan but she lived in canada for 20 plus years soo....
shes great! haha! anyway we learned something really funny while we were
there!
so there is a place called DEFA and its
for all foreigners. they have to register at DEFA where they live. so when i
came from luanda to huambo i had to tell DEFA aka the angolan government that i
was now in huambo. its so they can keep tabs on you. haha and people complain
that the US govt is difficult for foreigners. anyway so us missionaries we walk
everywhere and when i say everywhere i mean everywhere! and we have our favorite
restaurante in town thats called boca loca. and we go there at least once a
week on pday. and the owners of the restaurante are from lebanon. okay so DEFA
starts asking questions about us to some of the higher ups in the govt. and
they get one of the members of our church and start asking questions about us.
THEY THINK THAT WE ARE THE CIA! hahaha they think that our missionary badges
are cameras! and then they asked why we eat at boca loca so much? they think we
are in cahoots with the owners! hahaha what a crack up. Angola spying on the
missionaries. they also are confused why we walk everywhere.... hmmmm because
we dont have a car? anyway funny stuff. i got a good laugh.
so we are teaching this girl (30 years
old) named natalia. and her sister as well. and last week was a reall struggle
trying to meet with them. and so i was thinking that they kinda were not
wanting it anymore. because thats what angolans do. they just say yeah yeah
yeah i want you guys to keep coming... but they dont really want you to. ironic
because when people tell me no or they dont want us to come back i am actually
grateful for their courtesy! anyway so we were finally able to sit with
them. while she was out of the room i peaked at her bookmark in the book of
mormon... 1 nephi 2. DANG it! so she gets back and i ask her how her reading is
going. shes like good! im in 1 nephi 7. im thinking okay better than i thought.
and then she says yeah i read it once and know im going through it again to
really really understand it. CHE! nao brinca comigo irma! wow. i was
blown away. so then we watched the restoration video which is awesome as
ever! and then at the end it reads moronis promise and shes like ive heard
those words before! yeah theyre in the BOM! anyway the lesson finished great.
she believes that the book of mormon is true and acceped baptism! so we are
working towards that. we are going over there tonight.
BUT WAIT! so we are also teaching
giovania and her boyfriend jorge. who everyone says is my black twin because he
drips with swagga ;) anyway he was on a trip and got back this week. and
came to church. Natalia also came to church. and after the first class when we
were switching, jorge wiped something off natalias face, like without asking or
anything. and i saw it and i was like that was really really weird jorge. and
then i gave him a look like that was really really weird! haha and he smiles
and goes shes my sister. WHAT?!?!??!?!?!!? your kidding. no way. so we just
happened to be teaching both of them at the same time and none of us knew it.
natalia was from tracting and jorge through giovania! hmmm couinsidense (how
ever you spell it)...? I think not. God s got plans for this family. way cool.
Then yesterday after we got done with
our lessons we walked out. yeah there were clouds out but it hasnt rained in
like two weeks. then CRACK BOOM! i kidd you not it POURED in less than
three seconds! i didnt even have time to pull out my jacket or umbrella! not
that it even helped! flash floods in the streets! its was crazy! and actually
really fun.
well that was the week. love you guys a
ton!
Elder Tingey
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