Funny funny story :)

Hello,
Glad everything is going well, the week has been pretty good. Sorry that you cannot really find are house, the way they do the streets here and stuff is so retarded. That’s unfortunately all the info I can give you guys. As far as landmarks and stuff by us there is not much. Once you go out of our house and down the road to the main street and take a left there is a roundabout that is not too far. Then  you take a right at that round about and it will eventually take you to a mall called Molapo crossing. that’s the closest thing to us that is kind of big that I can think of.  Don’t know if that helps. I would think you would be able to find are house by the plot number and the phase we are in because there is only 1 plot number with that name. But hope you can find it.
My shirt size is like a 15-16 right now I have 15 but think a 16 would be fine. I’m glad you guys got the laptop working hopefully it helps nick.  That’s sweet… it sounds like she is doing really well in school. I loved your talk by the way, it was really good I wish I could have been there when you gave it but I just printed it out so I can read it whenever I want to. I’ve heard that story about James e Talmage before. But I never heard that the Jesus Christ actually appeared to him.
We are still hoping for are 3 baptisms we might even get 4 if all goes really well. But it’s just always really stressful when it comes down to the end of the month and you can never be like 100% sure if all will get baptized. But they are all looking pretty good, Yesterday we got to watch general conf it was really good and are investigators really liked it a lot so that was sweet to see that.
That’s sweet that Matt is back, ha-ha when you said that about when he got off the plane and no one would talk to him it kind of made me think that that’s how things are here. Like everyone will say hi to you as you walk by or just start off with a random conversation. That’s one of the things that’s really nice about Africa is all the people LOVE talking..Sometimes too much, but I suppose that’s good for missionaries.
The week has been good though, last night me and my companion went to Winnies house again and we ended up being there for 4 freaking hours! ha-ha we taught her the lesson in about an hour then as we were getting up to leave her mom told us to sit because she was making dinner for us so of course we never turn down food so we sat and ended up playing Uno with Winnie until the food was done...it took a very long time for some reason but it was really good. We also got news this week that elder rose (the greeny) will be getting ET this Saturday because his days in bots are out. This is becoming a major problem with this mission and is hurting bots really bad. Missionaries just keep coming and going coming and going and its killing areas, so far about 3 areas have had to be closed just because bots does not want to give anyone residency for some stupid reason. So hopefully they will soon work all this out. Something kind of funny and embarrassing happened this week.  So we got a call from the sisters that one of their investigators babies needed a blessing and Elder Rose was in the shower and my companion was not ready so me and Elder Mobashora from Zim had to go give the blessing, When we got there it was just the mother and her baby and the sister missionaries.  We just talked a little bit about what blessings are, and then I started to anoint the baby. Then the baby  started to cry so the mother just decided to FEED HER BABY RIGHT THERE!! I don’t know if you remember or if I told you but people here do not use bottles to feed there babies, they feed there babies with the things that God gave them… and so while I’m giving this blessing the mother just pops it out and starts feeding her crying child and it was one of the most awkward things that has happened on my mission!!!  Especially with the sisters standing right next to Elder Mombashora and I.  I had to keep opening my eyes making sure that my hands were still on the baby...so anyway that was kind of a weird experience this week.
I don’t know is you guys remember the color code thing.  Where you take a test and find out what color your personality is...but the guy who invented that is now in our mission, his name is Elder Hartmen, and last p-day he came to the whole zone and was teaching us about this color code  and also using it to help us know how to get to know are selves and are investigators . It can also help us to solve the needs of some of the people we teach and things like that. It was actually really cool and this might sound kind of nerdy, but I took the test and I am mostly a Red with lots of Yellow and a little Blue and like no White. Just in case you wanted to know...it was pretty sweet you get to kind of find out a lot about yourself and this is also helping with are investigators as well. So thought you guys might want to hear that. He is a really cool guy . It is really cool to have him and his wife in this mission. I think they will help out a lot. He also grew up in Southern California, so I also mentioned that my mother grew up in Southern California too.
That’s cool though to hear that kid is doing better in your room mom, I wish you luck with him.
That was the week pretty much, time keeps going by faster and faster its crazy!  Love you guys a lot and hope the week goes well.  

Love Justin

I should be in bots till the end of the year.

Hello,
You are going to murder me....I forgot the address again! I’m really sorry I don't know why I always forget.  I’m writing it down in my planner this week so I’ll most likely for sure remember. And about my computer it does not work anymore, when I was home after I logged on it would not work at all and I was going to take it in to get it fixed but seeing that I was leaving soon it did not really matter.  I think I downloaded to much crap on it and plus I have no idea what my password is anymore. Sorry. If you can get it working you can have it though.
Thanks a lot for your talk.  I’m really excited to read it. I can’t remember the last time you gave a talk. I think I must have been really little, because I cannot remember. Ha-ha the week has been good though, sorry for my last email I just was out of time. How it works here is you have to pay for a certain amount of time and I forgot money last time and only had like 30 min on my account so I was rushing to email. But the week was good.   I actually finished the Book of Mormon again so that’s always pretty sweet.  I am now starting to read the New Testament and Jesus the Christ. The President told us that once we feel we know the Book of Mormon pretty well the next thing we should study is the new testament and so I thought it would be cool to read both that and Jesus the Christ at the same time.
Also, randomly before I forget…  I really need more white shirts, like quite a few more. For some reason Africa does not believe in like just normal plain white shirts with a pocket. Mine are getting really bad and really sick. So I’m not really sure of the brands down there,  but if there is any way you could get some that  are longer, mine always come untucked and it’s kind of annoying just because I think I’m a little taller. But ya… just did not want to forget to mention that.
Everything is going pretty well with are investigators.  We are still hoping to get 3 bap this month and really praying that we can get that.  Everything is still going well with my companion.  He is a cool guy, it was pretty funny a couple days ago we were taking the other guys to their appointment and I was driving and elder rose told me to take my very first right turn after the roundabout.  He did not specify weather that road was tar or dirt, and so I turned on what seemed to be my first right on a dirt road which ended up not being a road at all and we going pretty fast so we were like digging in this little Chevy  Aveo and everyone is like screaming at the top of their lungs and I have like no idea what to do, but finally we stopped and my companion got out so he could back me up all the way back to the main road.  I was not really paying attention to him and going really fast in reverse and he was like running for his life I guess ha-ha it was really funny.  He is kind of a bigger guys and I bet we just looked really stupid to people that were driving by on the main road.  Just seeing a bunch of white guys driving a car in reverse chasing another white guy on something that is not even a road.  Ha-ha, so it was pretty funny.
And yes I do have to email the president every single week and send in are stats that we got over the week, its kind of a pain sometimes but also nice.  That’s cool that you boar your testimony.  I did as well last week in the ysa ward, As missionaries though they tell us not to go up unless there is along gap so I just count to like 25 sec and if no one gets up I get up…not to spiritual I guess.  And I will most likely be in this area until the end of December or the 1st of November.  I could possibly be in bots the rest of my mission because I will most likely only have 2 more areas before I come home.  I kind of hope that’s not the case.  I am missing South Africa pretty bad.  Bots is nice but it’s just way to slow for me. I like South Africa quite a bit so hopefully I’ll go back before I leave but if not it’s all good. I’ll try to send some pictures next week.  I actually forgot my camera today but I’ll try to do better.  Love you guy’s a lot and talk to you guys next week.

Love, Justin          

Funny story told by Mom and Dad

Hello,
So Dad, I was laughing pretty hard when you told me the story about your accident.   I can totally picture mom just rolling over and going back to sleep ha-ha...even though of course you did not do that :) (I will post a little insert of the story that Justin is talking about from each of my parent’s letters, so you can hear both sides of the story…it’s kind of funnyJ)

 I remember going to the priesthood session with you, those were some good times. And then after the priesthood session was over we would always go to that place called Deans or something? or trading table (I think he means Training Table J) and you would always get the mushroom burger and I always thought that was sick. I remember these things...I like the pictures that you guys sent me a lot (thanks to mom) but I would like that picture of you and mom and I promise dad, I don’t care what your hair looks like.  I think my favorite one was of mike sleeping, that was pretty sweet.  Last time I also asked you about sending me a copy of your talk dad.  If it’s alright I would still like you to send it, I wanted to read it.

And I’m really sorry I forgot again to get the address of where we are living. Today has been kind of crazy and I’m actually kind of in a hurry right now but the week has been really good.  Me and my companion are having fun together.  That is also very sweet about the temple in Durban that was really cool news even though it’s not quite in our mission. Ha-ha that’s really cool about Logan and being like super interested in all the planets. Man I miss the grand kids like crazy, back home sometimes I just thought that they were like monsters sometimes, but I miss them a lot.  I like it when you guys tell me things like that.  I’m really sorry this is so short, I’m kind of in a hurry.  Hopefully I will be able to tell you guys a little more next week.  Take care… Love you guys.

Justin   

Dad’s side of the story:

We had General Conference yesterday and today. After Priesthood, Ray asked me lots of questions about how you’re doing. Anyway, on the way home after eating I got into a small accident on the freeway. I was making a lane change and looking to make sure there were no cars next to me when all of a sudden the traffic ahead of me were all coming to a stop. By the time I looked in front of me it was too late. I made a mad dash to the other lane to avoid hitting the car in front of me but I still clipped the car’s left rear bumper. We both pulled over and I gave him my insurance information. It did very little damage to his car and you couldn’t even see anything on my truck. This is the first time I have ever hit anyone and I felt really bad. The guy was really good about it all but my guess is that they’ll have to replace his rear bumper. It’s really hard to fix plastic bumpers without replacing the whole thing. When I got home mom was asleep, but she woke up and asked me why I was so late. I said that I was in an accident and she said “Oh,” and then rolled over and went back to sleep! Oh well!!

Mom’s side of the story:

Hi Justin,

 It looks like I need to clarify dad’s e-mail a little.  When he came home from conference, I woke up and asked him why it took him so long in getting home – then I thought he said, “There was an accident and that’s why I’m late!  I didn’t hear him say he was in an accident – that’s why I went back to sleep…. I didn’t find out until the next morning that HE was in the accident!  Had to straighten that out!