Elder Collison at the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission Training Center

Elder Collison at the Johannesburg, South Africa Mission Training Center

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Hello! 

I did something stupid this week. So it's the end of the day and Elder K and I are at the little shop near our home getting some breakfast for the morning. He sees a container full of a bunch of little fish. I think they're called mukene in Uganda. But in Uganda they're just like an inch or two. These ones were like 5-6 inches. So he told me that if I eat them all, he'd buy me some Nutella. I of course accepted. So we get home and I dump them and a bunch of BBQ sauce and ketchup on my plate, then I popped the first one in my mouth. It was super tough and took so long to chew. And it tasted disgusting too. Man. One of those things might have been worth the Nutella. But then it became more than just the Nutella. I am not a quitter. And hey, it'll be a fun mission story. So after an hour of suffering, I finally finished them all! Crunching through bones, looking at them watching me, picking the scales out of my teeth, almost barfing several times... So terrible. My stomach felt so gross that next day and I had to wake up a few times that night to brush my teeth. Never again.
Now for a good food story! Mama Cecile is one of the best people on this earth. She's pretty much the funniest and sweetest lady ever.  Elder S (don't know if I've talked about him and Elder R yet... They're in the Kigali 3 Branch and work around Kagugu. We stay in the same apartment and we're all pretty dang close) is going home next week.  Just like you, Andrew!  So Cecile wanted to feed him before he left and when she feeds missionaries she goes all out. There was so much noodles and rice and soup and chips and fruit and soda and chicken. And she can cook well. Of couse we all had to see who could eat the most and just about ate to death. We just had to lay on the couches for a while until we were able to wobble the long way to the taxi stop.
I spoke in church this week on gratitude. I'm not a big fan of having to use a translator. I have to go a few words at a time and wait for him to translate it to Kinyarwanda for the group. It gets really confusing.
Well... Love you guys!
-Elder C. Collison

 


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