Hello!

Hello!
Hey it’s good to hear from you guys again. Yes the elephant ride was really fun. I think it was like a once in a lifetime thing so that was cool. I don’t think I will be leaving this fiery pit till August....but I really do love it here. We set a trimester goal of 10 which is extremely high for Nelspruit so once my companion leaves this Wednesday a lot of the pressure is on me to make this goal, I’m sure everything will be fine though. The week so far has been really good.
I gave a talk yesterday on family's and it went really well. I spoke after 2 of the recent converts that we baptized. That was also really cool to hear them give a talk. In my talk I was talking about mom and how you have such a fear of bears, and whenever we went hiking you thought a bear was going to kill us. Everyone was laughing. I can’t really explain to you how that fit in with my talk but it did and everyone told me to tell you that you should come to South Africa because there are no bears here.
Things are going well here though, we are planning on baptizing this family of 5 so that would be super cool. They’re a very good family and they have come to church 2 times and have seemed to like it. On Saturday we were helping them repair a roof and as we were walking up to their house some strange white people walked out of their house and looked at us and said "are you the Mormons?" And we said yes, then they just walked away … it was Jehovah’s witnesses, boom score 1 for the missionaries! They were mad because they knew that they had no chance.
Ha that’s really funny about Jared I cannot ... cannot picture him dancing in any shape or form, but that's cool. You just need to get dad up there now :) I hope you took pictures of that.
That’s also true about what you said when we see people with those type of possessions, it makes us realized how blessed we are. Every Saturday we go to this old folks home and play the guitar, they all seem to like it and I think that same thing when we go there.
So I have decided to start the Book of Mormon over again, but this time I am marking everything in blue that talks, gives reference to or just talks about Christ at all. It has made me realize how much the Book of Mormon testifies of Christ and just points people to him. I decided to do that because it seems like a lot people’s concerns lately have been that we are not Christian..which is absolutely crazy. A Christian obviously is anyone that teaches about or focuses on the teachings of Christ, and recognizes him as their Savior and Redeemer. So that’s what my studies have been about lately. Even if you just go in the back of the index and search Jesus Christ..there is like a billion things talking and testifying of him. Some people are just funny and don't understand. Oh well, the Lord knows who He wants in his church and we are really just along for the ride.  There is a scripture that I really like in the Book of Mormon in 2 Nephi 33 that talks about how the Book of Mormon will point you to Christ because that is its main purpose. But I am done talking about this now. Thanks for the email though, I will let you know how everything is going with Nelson. We are going to go play soccer with him today. But hope you guys have a good week love you guys.
Justin