Its good to hear from both of you. I’m doing pretty good. This week has been pretty hard. Our freaking car broke and we had to walk everywhere. And our area is one of the biggest areas in the whole mission. So it’s been hard and I am getting the coolest tan lines ever. I’m glad you liked the pictures I sent. I probably don’t look 185 because I think a lot of the pictures I sent were actually a while ago. I don’t know though I don’t look a whole lot different, but when I left I was like 170 and I weighed myself when I first got to Nelspruit and I was 185...so I don’t know. Ya we went there again and got a picture with Pastor Dan (he is like the leader of the clan) so I’ll try to send that picture. It’s so hard not to laugh when he is doing his thing but I don’t think we will be going back again, we just wanted to get a picture. And yes he is the farthest thing to how Christ would heal. Me and my companion where talking about that. Lately I have been trying to study how Christ taught and trying to read a lot of the parables he said.
52 Mostert is the street name, I think, and we just live in a flat on that street. There is a big 52 number on the gate to get into the flats. It’s like an apartment complex. hope you can find it. It’s also right by a place called Spar, it’s like a place you buy food and things. That’s good to hear the family is good though and Emma is crying, ha-ha sounds like a typical Sunday. I actually miss that, kinda sad. But anyway it’s also good to hear BYU is doing good. That awesome that they are ranked 7th … that pretty cool.
This week we actually had a pretty cool experience. We went to go teach this new family we just made contact with and we started to "debate" on if there are prophets or not today. They were saying that Jesus left us with the holy spirit so we did not need prophets. Too bad people don’t realize that he was talking to his apostles when he said that. Anyway the lesson was going in such a wrong direction and so right in mid sentence, when the lady was just about screaming at us, I told her to stop talking and to listen to me. She was kinda shocked so she was quite. I then began to tell her that our purpose is not to sit in someone’s house and talk about if there is prophet or not. I told her I did not leave my family for 2 years to debate on religious topics, and that I was there to tell her what I know is true. Instantly there was a different feeling in the room and everyone was quite. I then begin to tell her why I was there and what I wanted to teach them, that I was not there to tell her that her church was wrong but to invite her to pray about what we were saying and to ask god, not me, not her pastor, not the internet, but god. We then left the house with a much better feeling. My point is, and something that I learned, was that we as missionaries can sit in someone’s house all day and tell them all the knowledge we have in our brains about the scriptures and try to prove to them in every way that this is the true church. But the thing is that’s not how it works. The only thing that can tell them is that what we are saying is true by the Holy Ghost. It was this day that I realized that missionaries really don’t do a thing we just talk with our mouths, the Spirit is the thing that does everything. So ya that was just my thought … it was kinda cool.
But thanks for your guys email. I’m excited to get the package. All I ask is just for some cool cd's to listen too. I’m also super low on socks. I’m pretty sure there is a little monster in our flat and he comes around and steals our socks because all of mine are gone. But love you both! Have a good week.
Love, Justin
Nelspruit is so beautiful!
These mountains are called the 3 sisters.
Cool fog rolling in.
This is Pastor Dan.
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