He Made It!! He Made It!!

I will post pictures of what he has sent us so far, and his first email in the field. Yay for P-days!


"jabalei everyone,

so im finally in Africa and it is amazing we got here saturday night and president Jackson and the APs picked us up at the airport. it was crazy i stepped off the plane and looked down and saw a bunch of people walking around with ak-47 which was kinda shocking! But we stayed up til like 1:00 talking. The APs are so funny, i love them!

Sunday we woke up and went to church in a little branch! the people are amazing and so humble i had three kids hanging on my arm all throughout church. junior issac and travis were just hanging out with me! umm during sacrament this like 2 year old came up to me and just looked at me so i stuck out my arms and he crawled right into them, he was so cute! he sat on my lap the rest of sacrament! then the boys took me to primary where elder mair and myself taught them all about prophets and during sharing time they get juice and crackers, which is awesome! the teachers give the elders like a full glass of juice and a handful of crackers! this one boy that was sitting on the floor by me was eating plastic...so i opened my crackers and gave them to him! He was so happy and every other cracker he would put in his pocket to save it and same for his little sister! these people are so amazing and i love them!!

But after church we went to president Jackson's house and ate lunch and had a lot of training lol and found out where we were all going. umm elder salakielu is going to Ethiopia, and elder edman is going to Rwanda. Everyone else is in Uganda. Uganda is crazy! The driving is insane! People just pass whenever and stuff, its nuts but very fun! my companion is Elder Mbobosi. He is from south africa i met him like 20 min ago..so i dont know much about him. but so far he is really nice! and my first area is Bubembe or something like that..but its like 2 hrs. away from Kampala. some pictures ill send i crossed the river Nile, which is huge and yeah idk what else to say but that?
and the language is confusing. They speak many but mainly english and lugandan."

When I talked to him on Monday he said he was in a hurry and to excuse all of his typos! Haha! He seems so happy and so excited to finally be in the field!!! He also said that his mission president is one of the most huggable people ever! Lol and the guy in the last picture bought all of the elders lunch at cafe rio in the LA airport!