My birthday

Hello everyone!

Thanks for all of the birthday wishes, my birthday coincided with zone conference, so luckily I was able to spend most of the day in an air-conditioned room, and it also came with the perks of having a delicious meal made by Sister Turner, and the chance to wear a birthday hat~ Pictures are attached at the bottom.. It was a really great training, we discussed making Jesus Christ the center of all we teach, and becoming more unified in doing the work of the Lord :)

In addition, last P-day we made a trip out to one of the islands in our mission (the one with the airport on it), and had a Mud Flats adventure. It's kind of like the beach except instead of sand it's mostly mud, so you go out during low tide and try and find lots of creatures(little crabs, clams), and the idea is that you take them home and cook and eat them. Part of it was that we didn't know how to cook any of these sea creatures, part of it was that we were inexperienced and didn't find them very well, and the biggest part of it was that we had too much fun looking for little creatures, but at the end we didn't really have anything to show for our efforts. I think the staff and everyone else felt really bad for all the foreigners that weren't able to catch any delicious clams, because a man passing by just handed the sister missionaries a giant bag full of clams and told them how to cook it.

Other than that, all is going well here, it's pretty hot and a couple nights ago when we went to sleep, it was 33 degrees celsius in our house (about 90 degrees) with a whole lot of humidity, at that point it's less sleeping and more of just waiting until morning, but we are still happy :) We were trying to work towards 4 baptisms in our ward on the same day, it didn't quite work out but we should have 3 baptisms scheduled throughout August, we are looking forward to it! We are working with some really great people that have come to see the joy that following the teachings of the Savior Jesus Christ can bring.

That's all for me this week, have a great week everyone!

-Elder Bigelow