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Email for week March 2, 2025 Dear Friends and family, Once again it is Sunday evening and I am wondering what things I should share with you. Each week that goes by seems to be a common and normal life, yet Elder Thacker and I always find something new that we marvel over, or grow in our testimony of the Savior. I find myself thinking a lot about water. Here in Sierra Leone, we are now in the dry season. What this means is there are never any drops of rain and they seem to burn everything from garbage to the dry vegetation. These are not prescribed burns, just at will they light fires and many times they get out of control. There are no fire fighters either. It is very sad when we see someone's age old palm oil orchard, or cashew, or potato leaf gardens burn. It's devastating really. With the dry season also comes the lack of water. Many wells run dry as they are shallow and used excessively. It is commo...

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