Hey,
So I’m in my new area and its really sweet, I thought Francistown
would be just as ugly as gabs but it’s like really pretty here it’s a lot
greener then I thought it would be and the streets are a lot nicer the people
are also really nice. My companions name is Elder Van Heerdan from South Africa
and he is freaking wild. He is actually an Afrikaans guy (white person from Africa)
and all those times in Nelspruit making fun of the Africans people I actually
get one as a companion....nice one. But he is sweet ha-ha I have never met a
crazier person before. I’ll just describe how my first day went with him. He
flipped someone off while we were driving, hoped an electric fence, broke into
a house (for a good reason) and he is in the process of buying a donkey for who
knows why....He has only been a member for a year and did not know about the
church until he went to Utah to visit his dad for the first time and started
taking the discussions. He is really powerful and loves to work, sometimes though
I just have to tell him not to do things. But I think we should have a good
time together. Ya I was kind of worried about being over a district but it’s
not too bad now, In my district there is the zone leaders, me and my companion
and the sisters...just a side note I am emailing and my companion is next to me
and while we were emailing elder copans (the zone leader) called my companions
name so he would look over and see a white man and a black woman who are a
couple and he was about ready to explode, ha-ha he is a bit racist just because
the way he was raised and elder Copans knows it drives him crazy when he sees
that so he thought it was pretty funny I just had to tell him to settle down
again. Anyway not too much has happened this week just getting to know the area
a lot and meeting new people and things.
Just to tell you before I forget I am like really low in my
account for like food and stuff and we just like barley got the money I have no
idea what happened to the money, I don't know if I just budgeted really bad or
they made a mistake but I have like 50 dollars to last me the rest of the month
and I was just wondering if I could have some help until I look at the things I
have bought. I’m not sure what happened but that would be nice, sorry about
that. I’ll try to just live as much as I can on the card as I can until it’s
out though.
That’s really sad about sister Schow. I will put her in my
prayers as well. That’s really true what you said though dad that’s what I
noticed with my last companion is you cannot just call them out right there. He
always would tell me how annoying everyone was in his last flat and how mean
they were. I realized it probably was
not really them that were the problem so I just kind of tried to lead by
example. Like doing his dishes and stuff
when he would not do them and just not saying anything. And honestly that is
extremely hard for me to do because when someone bugs me I let them know. But
it taught me a great deal of patience. Luckily elder Van Heerdan is like super
clean, almost to the point of crazy but its good because I actually became very
clean as well in my last flat so it works.
But this will be kind of short sorry I did not answer everything but I
wanted to try to send pictures so love you guy’s a lot and take care!
Justin
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