This place is beautiful!

Hey mom and dad,

I’m just going to write one letter to both of you because I want to send some pictures if possible, but ya it’s so pretty here. There are tons of trees and if you find some fruit on a tree you can just take it if you want so it’s pretty cool. There is this fruit here called leeches or something and I guess they only grow here and they are sooo good, I love them. Ya the north east of South Africa really is the garden of Eden of the mission.

I also asked my companion and he said he does not know who Les is. I think Robinson is a pretty common name but ya me and him have lots of fun together we try to come up with creative ways to tracked and our district is finally starting to play basketball. The only problem is the courts we play on have no backboard but it is still way fun. I am actually now in an all car area and I am putting on weight. I don’t know if I told you but I already reached my goal of 185 pounds so I'm going to try and put on some more. I just don’t want it to go to my stomach. And I’m actually used to driving on the other side of the road. I thought it would be hard but it’s really not it only took me a week and I’ve only almost killed us 2 times so it’s not too bad.

Sweet, I’m excited to get the package. I can buy the shirts and highlighters and other obvious things here, and everything else sounds great. Maybe some music though if possible, like if you could burn me some cd's dad that would be cool. I can listen to like soundtracks and stuff like Lord of the Rings and things like that, or like Enya or just kinda like good music. We just can’t listen to music that takes away the spirit or has romantic tones...whatever that means. So if you could burn me some good cd's to listen to that would be cool, not that I did not like the cd's you sent me before but some more would be nice. If I think of anything else I’ll let you guys know.

Something funny actually happened last week we found this pastor guy and he told us to come to the hospital to preach on Monday. So we went kinda expecting there to be like a crowd of people or something that we would be talking to. Turns out we go to the hospital and there is just these 3 huge Afrikaner guys and they waved us to come over so we did. They were all these like crazy pastor guys, and they prayed with us in the lobby and like made us hold their hand and one of them just starts shouting in Afrikaans to of all these people. Then after they told us to follow them in these rooms with patients in them. And they were just going room to room trying to heal these people shouting at like the top of their lungs screaming Jesus, and like blessed Jesus we praise you Jesus! You’re the best Jesus! Me and my companion were like just sitting here trying not to laugh and to keep serious, it was crazy. Oh and we also got annoyed by one of them. He grabbed our heads and started to say this funky prayer. So we are going to go see them tonight and try and get some pictures and things. But ya I thought that was pretty funny. I’m actually now teaching gospel principles class in our ward and I’m also going to be playing the guitar in primary, I think. But ya I used to be afraid of callings but now I have just learned that they make you grow and learn so much more and at such a faster pace. But it’s good to talk to you guys there’s a lot more I want to say but I need time to send pictures so I'll talk to both of you next week, love you both!

Love, Justin