This week was pretty awesome I'm not going to lie
On Monday we went to a place called Addo Elephant Park.
It was one of the coolest things I've ever done. I will send lots of
pictures and videos don't worry. But it was really awesome we were just
in our car on this dirt road and all of the sudden like 40 elephants just came
out of the woods and followed the road. They were all around the car and
they would get close enough to touch them. Eventually we followed them to
a big watering hole and they all drank water for a minute and then they came
and started surrounding the car. It was really scary because they are so
huge and there's so many of them and if they wanted to attack us there was
literally nothing we could have done about it. But yeah we saw a bunch of
Zebras and Water Buffalo and good stuff but the Elephants were so sick.
Otherwise me and Elder Lillback put in another solid week of
missionary work. We found some more father led families to teach.
Something frustrating is that the Ward is not giving us the slightest bit of
help with the missionary effort and so even though we're teaching so many
lessons every day we're not having too much success. There was a new
bishop called this week though so hopefully there will be some good
changes. He's a young guy called bishop Khanti. Our old bishop I
genuinely believe may have been the oldest bishop in the entire world.
He's an old guy from Wales. He was 86 years old when he was released
hahaa.
We went to teach T this week and he was on the way
out. We rescheduled with him for next week Tuesday. We organized to
take with us Brother Wildskit who is the first counselor in the stake
presidency. He has the most amazing conversion story and he was planning
on sharing it with T. He told us what happened and it's really
amazing: He decided right after he was married that no church was doing
it for him so he didn't go to church for 7 years. Then one day after all
this time 2 questions came to his mind. What is my purpose here on Earth?
and Where is the Lords true church? So he went on his knees and he
said send me someone who can answer those questions. Then nobody came so
the next day he went on his knees again and he said I'm not leaving the house
until the people come I'm going to wait here. So then he waited all day
and evening came and just then there was a knock at the door and it was the
missionaries. So they taught him a lesson and he felt like it was true
but he wanted to be sure so he went on his knees again when they left and he
prayed and he said I'm going to open the bible and show me a verse. So he
did that and the first verse he saw said something like "And the Lord sent
his servants 2 by 2 into every place where he would go" and then he
couldn't believe it so he prayed again and he read "Knock and you shall
receive... If you then being evil know how to give good gifts how much more
will your father give good gifts to everyone that asketh" So then he
didn't bother anymore but he really investigated the church and he was baptized
and 6 months later he was made the Branch President hahah. Anyway he's an
awesome guy and we're really excited for him to share his experience and his
testimony with brother T. It should be very powerful.
Otherwise the work is going forward. We will meet
President Lebethoa for the first time this Thursday.
To Dad:
Something
that I'm quite proud of myself is that I finally learned how to be tidy.
Before mission my room was always a wreck and just terrible. Now I always
wake up every morning and make my bed and I fold all my clothes neatly and put
them away. Other missionaries have commented telling me that I'm so tidy
which is just super funny to me.
We
don't have Teacher Council as far as I know but I could be wrong. In any
case if there was ever a person qualified to teach a class for teachers it
would be you. You're definitely the best teacher that I know.
Obviously that's why you teach like 6 times a week hahaha
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| Me and Elder Dove at Addo |
Awesame pics love the elephants, cool video. We miss you dude.
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