December 30, 2013

Mommy,                                          12/30/13

 

It was so cool to call you! And surprisingly cheap.. Does it cost

anything on your side? It cost me about $5 to call ha. They fed us KFC

at the Christmas party. A KFC just opened up here in Uganda within the

last 3 weeks so they thought they would let us test it out. It was so

good! Tasted like home! Yum! It’s really expensive though, a bucket of

chicken is about $50. So it won’t be anything that we can go get on our

own.

Nakawa house, Kampala

Anyways, this week, even for me, it was slow. Everyone is out of town

so we can barely get 1 lesson a day. We've just been visiting members

and such.

 

 

 

Calvin in front of the church.

 

 

 

 

 

That's awesome that Jeanie is giving you stuff. I miss her quite a

bit! Store people here, if they see that we are regulars, they raise

the price of the things that we repeatedly buy. She often let me get

away with free stuff so yes I am missing her too!

 

Christmas was very different here.. The way I picture Christmas is,

family, music, decorations, temple square, reading Christmas stories,

and learning about Christ. That is not what it was here. The day just

kind of came and went. But again there are lessons I have learned that

I will take with me forever. The Importance of family, and centering

that family on the Savior. It’s just becoming more and more crystal

clear. So I will say that this Christmas definitely was not a good

Christmas, but it will always be one of the most meaningful, now that

I have seen the with, and without.

 



 

All of us talking to Calvin Christmas Day on the speaker phone. Jesse Reynolds came by too.

 

 

Mom, I’m so grateful for all that you do to help and support me out

here, but in al honestly the things you and dad taught me before

getting here have been the most important. I came from a home where I

was just taught what was right and how I could truly be happy. A lot

of the people here, don’t have that. I’m so

grateful, and I love you so so much! Have a Happy New Year! (I think

we will be on lock down at new year because people just get drunk and

set stuff on fire on New Years ha)

 

Elder Bennion

 

 

 

1st Christmas down!