Good to hear from you. The church is actually like the whole top floor, besides the part right when you come up the steps. OUR CAR IS STILL NOT FIXED! It is crazy. The good news is that we still have this crappy little rental car. It’s a Chevy Spark and I can’t tell you how gay me and my companion look in it. We took some pretty funny model pictures with it though that I will have to send. I have also learned how to drive a stick, because the Spark is shift so now I actually like driving manual cars a lot better than automatics.
That’s cool you got the package off. It will probably take a little longer to get to me because we are about 5 hours from the main office, so we have to wait until a transfer meeting to pick up all our stuff but I’m really excited. And no I have no idea where that DVD is. It probably got broken in half...maybe. That’s sweet about BYU. Ya people here who are like way into sports know about BYU. Most people just watch soccer and rugby but some watch even American sports and those that do know about BYU so it’s pretty cool.
This week was so good though. It was close to one of the best weeks I have had on my mission. Me and my companion are doing really well and I am sure we are setting records for Nelspruit, or at least we will soon. We have like 4 father led families and we could possibly baptize almost 16 people in April, which would be crazy because like I have said, Nelspruit is considered one of the hardest areas in the whole mission and 16 baptisms is huge for even a really good area. We also met this sweet family, who was so perfect, it’s almost just like to good to be true. So when we leave we tell people to pray about what we are sharing and the mom did and when we went back there she told us that she prayed and she got this feeling that we had something that she wanted, and she told us that she is willing to listen to anything we have to say. Her husband also said that he has been looking for the right church for some time and he says that he will pray as well. They also have 2 sons, so it was legendary.
We also went to Kruger National Park yesterday that’s why I did not email, and it was so cool. We almost saw the big 5 which is the elephant, lion, rhino, buffalo, and leopard. The only one we did not see was the leopard. It was so cool though. I don’t know how much about Kruger you know but it’s a really famous park in South Africa that has basically all the animals in Africa in it, and you drive around in the car and just go wherever and try to find them. We saw this tiger kill a monkey and run off in the trees and eat it. Lot’s a cool stuff. The animals are not tamed or anything they just live in the wild. We also got charged by 2 elephants, it was scary but after it was cool. Later we read that you are not supposed to go close to the elephants or they will tip the car, and we could like touch them for how close they were. But yes, this was the week … it was awesome.
Yes we did hear about the stuff in Japan, that’s terrible. I can’t believe how much damage it did we will definitely pray for them.
But it’s good to talk to you dad hope the week was good, how is work going? You never really let me know how all the guys are doing and how work is so let me know. But thanks love ya.
Love, Justin
Hey mom,
It’s good to hear from you. I’m excited for the package, hope it comes soon. And a lot of your questions I answered in dads email. But there are about 100 and something members in our ward and about 50-60 come to church each Sunday. And basically all the people we are teaching are from our own efforts sadly, because we are supposed to get member work going but it’s very hard because people do not realize that it is the job of the members to find people, like friends and such, because they already have that relationship of trust with them. As for missionaries it’s much harder because no one knows who we are. We are just weird people that come knocking at doors. I mean you think about it, when a salesman or a Watch Tower or something comes to our door you just basically think..crap I do not want to talk to this person. I don’t have time for this and that’s really what most people think of us. And what makes it even harder is that a lot of people here have huge gates with massive dogs and with intercoms so it makes it like extra hard to get in. So the members definitely make an impact in the work or at least they should.
But anyway that’s cool that Carrie and Mike found a place, and its cool to hear your doing well. Just remember not to get to stressed, you have to relax sometimes even though it feels like you need to be busy all the time. Try to find some quite time. Remember Elder Uchtdorf talk last conference, the things that matter most. I loved that talk it has helped me a lot so far on my mission. But I’m going to try and send some pictures from Kruger Park, but it’s good to hear from you mom, love to hear from you.
Love, Justin
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