Well the week was pretty good, Sorry, I did not really mean
to sound down last time, it’s just been a bit stressful lately. It’s been a bit
difficult with my companion, he is a really good guy he just takes some
patience. He gets up late like every day
and he is always sleeping whenever he finds the time to. I don't know what to do. I love him, it’s just difficult. And the
problem is he has had really hard companions his whole mission I guess so he says that I’m his favorite companion. So it’s hard to tell him the things that bug
me I guess. But it really has been getting at me lately, a lot of little things
are bothering me lately but I’m good. We get along fine. Actually pres called
me Saturday and said I will be going up to Francis Town, which is by the way
the farthest away possible I could get from the office, I will now be about 11
hours away from the office, so I’ll be the new district leader there. It’s also
a very good area, everyone says you can just pick up a stone and throw it and
whoever it hits you get a baptism. I don't thing that’s true though....so I’m
pretty excited to go, I’ll leave tues or wed. The only problem with up there is
that it is extremely hot, like very very hot up there it can get to like 115 to
120 degrees …its very crazy and there is no AC in the flats, so not to excited
about that but ill deal with it.
I’m really sorry to say that I forgot my camera again but I
will really try to bring it next Monday so I can send some pictures. My last Sunday
in G west was actually really good, we had 2 baptisms of a mother named Neo,
who is one of our recent converts Tsholos mom. And then another lady named Tumelang,
we also had lots of investigators at church which was really sweet as well. But
I’ll try to send the pictures to you guys. It sounds like you found the right
house, the neighborhood we stay in is pretty nice, it’s not Nelspruit but it’s
alright. Bots is really not that pretty especially g west, but I here Francis
town is a lot nicer so we’ll see.
We had a pretty cool experience this week though. So we have been teaching one of Tsholos
friends Gaone, its actually the same girl that we thought had a crush on my
last companion… but anyway she is doing good now and is on bap date for November. She has been a hard investigator but is
changing a lot since we have started teaching her. I think I’ve talked about her a few times
before, but we were talking to her the other night and she started to express a
lot of things to us. Like how she never knew who her parents were and she has
no idea who her real family is and just some sad stuff. She has currently been staying with Tsholo
and her family for a very long time. She just does not really feel like she
knows who she is and it bothers her a lot.
She also expressed a lot of other things about herself that she was
having problems with and a lot things came out which was good because we kind
of found some things that have been holding her back from her baptism. And so
we told her that we feel like we should give her a blessing and we explained
what that was and when we were done teaching we went in the house. She picked me to give her a blessing and
after I gave the blessing she just looked at us with tears in her eyes and then
she shook our hands and ran in her bedroom without saying anything....so at
first I thought I said something wrong or, so I was kind of nervous. We ended up talking to her a couple days
later and she said the blessing touched her a lot and she feels a lot better
about things, so that was really cool I thought. Now she is almost like a
completely different person then she was before. So ya… I just feel like the Lord
has some really good things in store for her.
It was also kind of funny the other day. So as I told you
guys, we cover 2 wards a young single adults ward and a family ward. It’s a bit awkward when we are contacting
people and stuff because they always ask what time our church starts and first
we have to ask the question...well are you single or are you married? Because
each ward starts at a different time, so as you can imagine it can be very
awkward sometimes especially when you contact like a 19-20 year old girl and
you are asking her if she is single or not...it sometimes comes across the
wrong way. So me and my companion went to kfc a couple days ago and went through
the drive threw. At the window there was two 19-20 year old girls and they
asked us the question of what time church starts and I asked them if they were
single or married? They both took it the
completely wrong way and started flirting with us like crazy and it was super
awkward, because we had to wait for them to give my card back and they are just
like sitting here talking to us and like telling us they want to get married so
bad and things and we are just laughing like super hard in the car trying to
explain to them that’s not why we were asking but they did not understand so
anyway it was really kind of awkward. Need to find a new way to ask people that
question now.
But sounds like Halloween was fun. I don’t think people here even know what that
is but I guess I’ll be able to have a good Halloween next year. But thanks for
the letters, excited to get the package don’t really need anything else just
mainly the white shirts...like lots of them because I’m just going to throw all
of mine away because they look sick, But that’s really mainly like all I really
really need but anything else is fine but thanks a lot love you guys here from
you next week.
Justin
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