Hey group!
I am back in Uganda! It is pretty wild to be back actually. I honestly feel like I served some sort of inception mission and I have returned from my mission back to Uganda... It is pretty weird and funny. Right now my main focuses are getting used to the culture again and being able to understand people. I had no idea how weird I was until I came back and everyone is saying I act and talk weird. My manners are like specific to Ethiopia. I stand every time someone enters the room and always have a hand tucked behind my back as I pick and pass things. AND I TALK TO EVERYONE HAHAHAHA.
In Ethiopia NO ONE speaks English and so when you hear someone speaking English you get all excited and go contact them. Now I hear English everywhere and I just greet and talk to everyone! I am going off with missionary work here. I can't tell if my comp likes it or not but it usually makes him laugh so I will keep doing it. By the way, my companion is really great. He is from Vegas and loves cars so we talk a lot about em... we enjoy each other!
Nsambya is THE BEST area for a missionary coming from Ethiopia. Lemme tell you why. There are Ethiopians and Eritreans EVERYWHERE!!! There are like 10 Ethiopian restaurants in my area and sooooo many refugees everywhere. I speak Amharic all throughout the day. And it just shocks people when they meet a white guy in Uganda who can speak their language. In fact we were doing some finding the other day and found an Eritrean family. They invited us in then all of a sudden I started going in Amharic and they nearly died. It was probably my favorite appointment I have had my whole mission. We talked forever (in Amharic) so my comp just sat there shocked. The missionaries here don't believe me when I say I can speak the language well from up there and so when we meet Ethiopians and I carry out a legit conversation for a good hour it surprises them. Hahaha. But this lesson with the Eritrean family went a good - 1.5 hours and fully in Amharic. They loved me and the language so much but didn't care much for the message. They were of course Orthodox. But I did get fed some injera and messir wat which was amazing! I love the area!
Our work is kind of starting fresh. It seems like I always come in to areas that have no investigators and am told "pick it up or your area will close at the end of the transfer"..... So that is the case right now. We have just been doing finding and finding and finding. Ugandans are really nice and love to invite you in but are usually too afraid to say no to things. I am having to get used to everyone saying yes and not exactly being serious about it. Church was a bit of a disappointment when almost none of our new investigators showed. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say it rained in the morning. So, that is about how the work is going right now. Not much of an update on the investigators because we don't have really any... Hahaha. This week we will be looking though!
That is the current update. Things are as hot as ever back here in Uganda but I am so happy to be back!
Love you guys. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder McLain
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