Goodbye Botswana :(

Hello,

Hey mom and dad it was awesome to get your emails, Sounds like you guys had a sweet time in San Diego, I loved getting the pictures and liked the updates. I like hearing how you guys are doing. Hope the party was fun....sounds a bit familiar.  The duck was sweet! My camera is packed away right now but next week I’ll send some nice pictures.

Well a lot has happened over this week, my companion elder Dlomo got his residency that meant bye bye elder Brey. It was funny before he got his residency I wanted to leave and was really hoping he would get it, but the day he got it all of a sudden I realized that I was really leaving...then everything just sunk.  Man I was super sad I did not want to leave at all, It was really hard and a bit strange, I even sat up like half the night a couple of days ago in my bed just thinking, it was really strange usually I’m excited to leave but this time was a bit different. But Elder Hill called me from the office and told me I would be leaving bots (probably for the rest of my mission) and heading to Mzanzi, I’m not sure where I’m going yet transfers are tomorrow and me and my buddy elder Chaka just drove here to Gabz last night, we will soon be heading to South Africa right when we are done emailing. So we have another looong drive ahead of us. Not looking forward to that, but I’m still excited to go back and finish up the work there.

I guess I don’t have too much to update you guys on my mind is just still on transfers. Man I miss Elder Dlomo he was a sweet guy I loved training him although it seemed like he was training me some of the time. We had some great times. It was funny when we left yesterday he was like so sad ha-ha it was really funny, he was just telling us to leave and get out of here like we were some dog that he had loved but has to let go, ha-ha...not sure if that made sense but it was pretty sweet I’m gonna miss that guy, we might not see each other for the rest of my mission.

Man… currently there is like a man screaming at the internet lady and its really starting to get on are nerves, me and elder Chaka are planning on throwing him out, people here like talking so freaking loud sometimes it is crazy. I’m pretty excited to go to South Africa though, just to experience life in fast pace again, or should I say normal pace, not driving behind people going 30 below the speed limit, things just making sense again, good food, people understanding what I say, fun things to do on pday...just a few things but somehow I’m already starting to miss Botswana, not sure how that works but I’ve grown to love the people here very much, by the way in case you’re wondering that guy has stopped yelling, I think he heard elder Chaka say Donkey...shut up! Off of Shrek. So it’s nice and quiet now.

Ha-ha, I don’t know if you notice mom but almost every email you have sent me the past few times you will slip in at the end at how I’m coming home soon! Ha, I still feel like I have a lot of time left on my mission, and I just want to keep thinking that. Time goes by faster when I don’t think about it. It was funny when I was telling everyone I was leaving, everyone thought that I was like going home home, so they were all writing like stupid comments in my journal...as I was reading it, that’s when I realized I should have made it clear I was not going home to America, just to South Africa.  When I was reading I was getting quite trunky thinking about some of the things they were saying. I won’t make that same mistake in my next area. I’m making it very clear where I will be going. But we have to be at the Kimball’s at 10 so I’m going to have to say good bye and will have a lot more info next week about where I am. Love you guys!

Justin