This week I have been eating far better. I actually
ate a variety of good meals with different fruits and vegetables. I felt
very good this week and I didn't even get fast food. It did cost a little
bit more money to eat properly though but I think in a few weeks time I may be
able to budget properly. I think the pancake recipe would be super useful
and I would love it if you had Daniel send it to me. We don't eat during
the day though. We eat at about 11:30 and then we go to the area and we
don't eat a meal again until we come home at about 8:30 or 9:00.
Also I
have been waking up at around 6:45 most days which is good. I still have
work to do but it's getting there. I am also running every day and
exercising both morning and night so it's very good. I really want to be
healthy.
You mentioned that you wondered if there is a primary
program and the answer is yes and it will be sometime this month.
So this week was pretty dull there wasn't anything really
exciting that happened.
We had a couple of drunk people screaming at us. This
drunk lady actually came up to us and talked to us for like 5 minutes and she
was like screaming at the top of her lungs "We've both been saved by
Jesus! Who's better than who?" And I was just laughing so hard and
she started talking to us and she pointed at Elder Greengrass and she said you
look like a humble person and she pointed at me and she was like you look like
you're not humble. then she said to Elder Greengrass you're more Jesus than him.
Than I was just laughing and laughing and telling her Jesus loves her and then
Elder Greengrass was trying to be serious with her and ask her to have lessons
with us and then she was like give me your number so I can call you guys for a
lesson and so we did and then before she left she said to Elder Greengrass
"You aren't very Jesus. You look like the Elders sat you down and
told you exactly what to say." Then she pointed at me and she said
"You're the real one. You're actually more Jesus than him"
Hahahaha she was super drunk and we were both laughing about it a lot.
Church on Sunday was very frustrating for me. We have
been getting better and better church attendance for the last little bit and so
Sunday I was hoping to get about 130 people in sacrament meeting.
Unfortunately it rained. I don't know what it is about rain but it
terrifies Xhosa people. Nobody was at church. We counted the
attendance and it was only 71. The other Elders said their ward got 198
last week and this week they only got 90. The rain really sifted the
wheat from the tares here I guess but it was very frustrating that nobody was
willing to come to church because it rained. It's understandable though
because a lot of people have to walk but it's still frustrating.
Other than that it wasn't a super interesting week.
To Dad:
Yeah we do get lots of dinner appointments. Every
Sunday we have one sister from the relief society feed us and they never
drop. Usually we have 1 or 2 more during the week that we schedule and
those never drop either. The bishop and his twin brother who is on the
stake presidency usually both feed us every couple weeks so we get good dinner
appointments out of them. Usually all of our dinner appointments cook
chicken with this african rice stuff and some vegetables which are usually the
same. The bishop gets us fast food though and his brothers wife is a
really good cook so she always cooks us a variety of very good food.
We
street contact every day. We drive around and there's always a lot of
people walking around so if we see anyone walking alone we stop next to them
and give them a pass along card. It works pretty well we usually get 3 or
4 new investigators a week out of that. As far as knocking house to house
we never do that. We are way too busy to waste our time doing that.
We usually have 6 to 8 appointments a day and we struggle to fit people in to
our days so we have no time to go house to house. The people here are
super receptive though and so when we talk to them on the street they are
usually very interested in what we have to say.
My favorite part of
missionary work is probably finding. I am very good at street contacting
I think so I always like to talk to random people and make connections with
them and get new people to teach. I think it's a skill that will serve me
very well for the rest of mission. Even the other day we were looking at
the board and we have about 50 people on the board that we think about and of
those 50 probably 20 of them are people that I personally have contacted.
The only thing I definitely dislike doing is visiting recent converts who have
been taught all the lessons over again and we have nothing to teach. I
always think it's a mental strain for me to think about them and what to teach
them.
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