It is very hot!

Mom and Dad,
Hey sounds like everything is good, and happy birthday mom! how old are you now? I can’t remember if you’re like 53 or 54 or maybe that is totally wrong, but I hope your birthday was sweet. I forgot about the address again. We live in an apartment complex that’s pretty nice...I know that does not help you at all but I’ll try to get the address for you guys. Before I forget the address to send stuff to is 301797 Francistown, Botswana. I guess that’s it; I asked the senior couple up here and that’s what she told me.
The week has been good and it has been extremely hard though. The zone leaders had to take the car to Joburg so me and Elder Van were left with the bikes all week and I got 5 freaking punctures on my bike in the span of 4 days, and he got one. With a combination of the heat plus crappy Botswana bike tires we were just getting owned this week. It is very hot here as well, like to the point of not safe I swear but we still have to work. My companion is still crazy but I love him a lot he is such a hard worker. We are also both working on his racism, ha-ha. He like knows that he is so racist and he wants to fix it, it’s just hard for him so I’ve been trying to help him.  We were riding the bikes at night actually when I got my 2nd flat of the week. So we were just walking and there was like a herd of cows just chilling across this huge ditch, so he decided he wanted to try and hit them with a rock. So he was just like standing on the main road just chucking these rocks at the cows and he finally hit one. And just by hitting that one, all the cows just stood up one by one and just stared at us, ha-ha it was pretty funny....I think you just had to be there.
A pretty cool experience happened this week. So we get like 1 hour of personal study each morning, and last week one morning I was reading Jesus the Christ and studying about parables. And I was studying the one about the Sower in Matthew 13: 1-8, and just like hectically studying the chapter for some reason. And we went to one of our father led family's for the night and I asked the mom if she had any questions, and just randomly she said she wanted me to explain to her Matthew Chapter 13: 1-8 because she did not understand. It was pretty sweet. Right when I opened to the chapter I realized it had been the exact one I was studying just like 10 hours ago, so I thought that was really cool. It ended up being an awesome lesson.
Another thing happened to me and my companion this week. So there is a place here called BDF Camp Botswana Defense Force....kinda funny because I have no idea what Bot’s is trying to defend. I don’t think anyone would want anything here. Anyway, we are teaching people in the camp and we just went there the other day and we rolled up in the car just talking to the guy and all of a sudden we looked forward and two guards are just chilling right in front of the car with their AK47’s pointed right at are faces....it scared the heck out of us. Then the guy we were talking to said something in Swanna and waved his hand at the guys and they lowered their guns and just walked away?? I was just like what the heck? It was really random and scary; and its funny, Elder Van is always saying how racist the guards are to white people and I have never believed him, and after that happened he just looked at me like; I told you so. It was pretty funny.
Thanks a lot for putting some money in I really appreciate it. I really try not using the card to much but I’ll pay you guys back one day I promise. But how is everything going at home? Is work good dad? You never really talk about it too much. How is Joey and Jason and all them doing? Today I found out Elder Hill was a plumber before his mission so we were just talking about it today and just how there kinda similar jobs, even though we all know pipe fitting fire sprinklers are the best. But hope everything is going well at home. Sometimes I worry that you guys are not like telling me everything … if things are not going good. But I pray for you guys everyday and hope everything is going well with the family. Love you guys though and talk to you all next week.
Elder Justin Brey