I have been very blessed with good companions!

Hey mom and dad,
It’s good to hear from you guys again. And yes I meant he is from Zimbabwe, and we get along really well. It’s very true what mom said; I have been very blessed with good companions, which is really rare I hear. Its kinda the same problem here with all the Africans. A lot of the Africans and Americans do not get along for whatever reasons, but we get along really well and so does our district. I actually forgot to tell you guys but there are Sisters in our District, which is kinda weird but its good. We stay in Extension 4, and I’m not sure of the plot number. We stay next to the main road, kinda, and our house is bright green and in a corner at the end of the street.

Thanks for the money. I was able to use some of the food from the previous Elder who left. He left behind some rice and oats and bread so I have been eating that for a week, but we went shopping today and I’m all good. Thank you though.

This last week was actually somewhat of a pain in our flat because the electricity went out for like 2 full days. It was somewhat hard especially with the cold showers, so we finally decided enough was enough and went to our Chapel one night to just make food there. And when we got back at night of course the electricity decided that it wanted to come back on after 2 days! God does have a sense of humor, I promise all of you.

I forgot to tell you guys though that we have a brand new missionary in our flat from America. I have realized how stupid I was when I got on my mission. We are having lots of fun with him. It’s not as fun with new African missionaries because they already kinda know what’s up, but Americans have no idea what’s going on. But it’s been fun, we have a good time in our district.

It still continues to be cold and people are still continuing to just burn things all over the place. For some reason everyone hear thinks that it is a good idea to burn tires like all over the place. I’m sure you all know that breathing in tire fumes is extremely bad for you and causes TB. But there are freaking tire fires all over the place, so we always have to walk about with things over our faces so we don’t breath it in. Its only like that in the townships though, like where we are. In places like Nelspruit that stuff is not a lot, but in the townships it’s just like burn whatever you want. But I only have 10 minutes and I still need to email the President. I think I forgot to tell you guys but we have a new Mission President; his name is President Omer, I think. I have never met him; he just got here a few days ago. But Hope you guys have a good 4th of July!
love ya

Justin