Thanks Dad for the letter! Your letters always keep me going! I told
my companion about some of the letters you send me and how they always pump me
up! And now he always asks me, did your dad send a pump up letter? And I pretty much have always responded yes!!! Don’t
think that there is any pressure on or anything, I just wanted to let you know
that your letters really do help me press forward thanks so much!! I think I am
going to have to respond to your questions this next Monday, so maybe remind of
those questions that you have thanks!! Love you!! Elder Tilley
I am doing
well, things have been frustrating with the house we are living in because one
day the generator doesn’t work, than
we fix that than we run out of water,
than our air conditioner breaks, than once we get everything figured out
generator breaks again, so tonight will be hot night! But the work is going
well we have 5 people right now that
have a baptismal date! So that is really good we have 4 people for the 16 of June
and 1 for the 23 so that is really exciting! This week we have also taught the
plan of salvation more and I told about the Atonement and I just felt really
good and I was definitely feeling the Spirit! I have been praying for you very
hard this week that the Lord will help you and lift your Burdens and I hope you
have been able to feel my prayers. Yeah I am adjusting pretty well, but some
days are harder than others. The Lord has definitely been helping me and
blessing me though!
Food here really actually isn’t very
scarce here, and the food is actually really good for the most part. I eat a
lot more when I am at a members house for dinner than when I am at home. IT is
really hard to make good food on our own because of our house issues and lack
of time, but food is not really a
big concern.
…I wrote a
response last week and than the Internet shut off and erased that part and all
I had time for was to log on send what I had and than it turned off again,
sorry! I am learning so many things all at once it is pretty crazy! One of the
main things i have learned though is apply
the scriptures in our
lives. For
example a lot of times we have a scripture study and we learn about some
principle and after the study we close the scriptures and maybe right down what
we learned and than we walk away and do not really thing about it the rest of
the day. I have learned that after we learn something we need to think of a way
that we can specifically apply that principle in our lives that day or that
week etc. And maybe we can not do that everyday or even after every scripture
study, but I think we need to do that often. I learned this a few weeks ago
when I was having a hard time and I would read the scriptures and find something
that would help, and while I was reading it I would think sweet this is going
to help me, but than an hour later I would forget about this principle and I
was still having a hard time, so I leaned that I needed to write down
specifically what I was going to do that day to apply that principle. I hope
that makes sense, (I do not have time to proof read it) The Safari was awesome! IT was way fun! We
did not see any predator type animals, but we saw a giraffe, zebras, elephants,
wildebeest and things like that! Also we got to feed wild monkeys so that was
fun!! Also my camera battery lasted the entire time so I was able to take pictures,
so that was good!!
I think I
was able to answer all of your questions this time! I hope I did not miss any!
I love you so much Mom!! Thanks for all you have done for me and for all that
you have taught me!! You are an awesome, wonderful mother!! As I hear about
other missionaries mothers, I continually think "man my mom is sooooooo
Awesome!!!" I love you Mom, keep up all the great work you do for our
Family!! Love you!!! Elder Tilley Love you!!! Logging
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Quicama Park for Preparation Day
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We
first visited Quicama Park back in January with the missionaries who were
serving in the Luanda area. Since that visit, we have more new
missionaries and they had the opportunity this week to visit the wildlife park
for themselves. It was quite a surprise when we entered the park to find
this beautiful giraffe off to the right side of the road quietly munching on
the tree leaves. We were ecstatic and took more than our share of
pictures of him eating. The giraffe let us photograph him as long as we
kept our distance. Elder McAllister quickly handed me his camera for a
more personal picture. We were hoping this was a good sign that we would
be seeing lots of animals in the park that day!
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Once
we got past the electrified fence (just like Jurassic Park) ... All was ready and waiting for us, so Elders Perry, Tilley, Richter, and
Hansen climbed aboard for the window view. Little did they know that they
would constantly be whacked on the arms and legs by passing tree branches.
...What a ride!
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In
addition to the giraffe, we saw two different herds of zebras with some giant
sable antelope, and two elephants that were throwing mud on their backs to
escape the heat of the sun. The truck we rode in was noisy, but we were
able to get to places remote and choked with vegetation to find all the animals
we saw. It was the best preparation day yet!
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After
the safari tour, we stopped and ate our lunch with a view to die for. We
were up the hill from the Kwanza River. The blue of the water and the
green of the surrounding fields and trees were all stunning. Elders
McAllister, Tilley, Wilhelm, and Hobbs relaxed and enjoyed the view.
Elder Kearney and Elder Hansen successfully got the monkeys to eat out of
their hands. ...All the missionaries had a great, memorable day including (back
row) Elders Wilson, Wilhelm, Perry, Hansen, (front row) Elders Kearney,
McAllister, Richter, Tilley, Hobbs, and Chandler.
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| After a full morning of touring the park, we left the animals behind and stopped at this huge Imbondeiro tree. It towered over us and is the icon tree of Angola. Elders McAllister, Chandler, Tilley (at trunk of tree), Wilhelm, Hansen, Perry, Kearney and Wilson all had a great first safari in Angola! |
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