We working hard

The Elders are keeping us very busy. We go to the Visitor's Center by the temple almost every day with investigators and sometimes 2 times a day.  The Elders are not allowed to give rides and most people do not have cars here.  Sunday is by far our busiest day.  We attend 2 blocks of meetiings and eat our peanut butter sandwich driving to the French Branch.  Sacrament meeting in French is very tranqualizing : >)  Then we have 2 hours of trying to keep the children busy.  We usually have between 4-10 kids in Primary.  They do not know the B of M stories nor the primary songs so that is where we are going to start.  Then often we have a fireside or baptism after church.  Once a month they have a fireside at the VC called, "Why I Believe".  The new converts are asked to introduce themselves and 2 are asked to give a short talk.  Wow, it is so powerful.  The converts are from all over the world.  I don't think anyone living here was born in the US.  The man from Iraq who we were helping the Elders with was scheduled to be baptised last week but it had to be postponed.  His immigration counselor told him that if he joined the Mormon Church they would not sponsor him anymore and he would be deported.  He told us that his father had been murdered in Iraq because he was Christian.  Everyone has a sad story and it is easy to get caught up in things.  We are loving it here and the cold weather has not turned out to be as bad as we expected.  We are working with a woman named Joyce Gulu from Malawi (a small country that was in our Zim mission).  She has been here about 8 years and left her children in Africa.  She sends them money when she can.  We sent their contact info to the Stevens in Malawi so it helps us feel that we are fiinishing our African mission.  We were invited to Monica's house (she's from Nigeria) and she fed us sudsa (called fu fu in Nigeria) and minced fish balls cooked in oil.  (Sudsa is corn meal flour cooked in boiling water until it is a thick paste.)