I have come to the conclusion that Kenya is the funniest country on the planet. Walking the streets all day everyday leads you to see some pretty funny and strange things. We laughed hard this week.
One such occasion was when we were walking early in the morning to teach a friend. The previous day we were casually talking about witchcraft and asked a member if they practice it here. She said yes but not really. Well, this particular morning was after a long night of rain so there were huge puddles in the muddy road. But that's all they were. Just puddles. There’re tons of them. Well along the way we saw a dude squatted by one of the puddles and at the spot just in front of him the water was bubbling and flowing like a fountain, but literally nowhere else was it doing that. Was it witchcraft? Did we meet a real-life water bender? That's up to you to decide.
We had a really positive experience and a really negative experience this week that I'll share. First the negative. A dude that we have been teaching for a while finally came to church. He's always been very kind and positive towards us and even told us that he enjoyed the service. Well, a couple hours later he called and just started ripping into us and the church because we "didn't use the Bible enough." Well funnily enough if he would have stayed for second hour, he would've seen that our discussion was ENTIRELY about the Bible. That's why you go to all of your church meetings kids.
Positive experience: Ian was baptized. Ian was a member referral...kind of. The person that introduced us to him said he just wandered into the chapel. Come to find out a week before his baptism that his mom is a recent convert. Ian is powerful! He always kept commitments and was always one step ahead of us by reading the pamphlets. He was always willing to do what we invited him to do. I was able to stand in the circle and it was an awesome experience to hear such a powerful and willing kid become a member of God's kingdom. He says he wants to be a missionary and he's definitely in the age range so hopefully we can help him!
Ajock didn't get baptized this week because of some health issues but we are hoping to reschedule for next week.
I have never been so excited for General Conference as I was for this month's and boy, I was not disappointed. A bunch of talks about missionary work as a missionary? That's what I like to hear. I hope you all had a chance to watch and receive revelation, inspiration, and some hope in your life. My favorite talk came from Elder D. Todd Christofferson! He taught that our faith shouldn't be based on the blessings we feel like we should receive, but rather from our relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. That is the ultimate blessing we could have anyways.
Please! Enjoy this week! Take some time to slow down and not be so hard on yourself. Gain some spiritual momentum. If I hear that you aren't then we're gonna have some problems, ok? 😁
Elder Miles
This is pretty much what most of our area looks like 
A gecko in the baptismal font 
Ian 
Elder Nelson's April Fool’s Day prank. Tricked us into thinking we got permanently reassigned
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