I got my package this week. I loved it so much it was
awesome. The pictures were so amazing and I really liked the letter from
all my friends. It was really nice to hear them all bear their testimony
about how they gained a strong testimony on mission. The books were so amazing
I love them and for sure I'm going to study them. Also all the candy was
great I gave a lot of it to Elder Reynolds and he liked it too. And the
notes from the primary kids were really cute I liked them a lot.
The article (http://time.com/5103259/cape-town-water-crisis/) is really true. When I got transferred to Cape
Town which should have been about a year ago we were told that there was only
90 days of water left. And it only rained twice in the whole 2 and a half
transfers I was there, that I can remember. But it's only got worse and
apparently the missionaries in Cape Town have crazy restrictions on water and
stuff. I hope I don't go there. It rains so much in King Williams
Town. Elder Reynolds says it rains more than it does in England. So
we don't have to worry about the drought over here, but I wouldn't be surprised
to see all the missionaries evacuated to the Eastern Cape for a time.
This week was Zone Conference week so for us we lost
basically 2 days since we also have to drive down the day before for interviews
with the Mission President. It was a nice interview and a nice Zone
Conference, but it wasn't really life changing like the last one for me where
we learned about budgeting. But yeah it was a nice Zone Conference that's
all I can say.
We were able to teach some new people this week and we found
2 more father led families. The amount of father led families we're
finding is just crazy. And some people who are really exciting. At
least if we could baptize one of them it would be a huge strength to the
ward. Next week is ward conference so me and my companion are going to be
singing in the choir. It makes me think of when I was 10 and I
volunteered to sing in the choir and then you or dad said I should wait until I
was 12 and then by the time I was 12 I never had the desire to sing in the
choir again. But now my desire to sing is back.
The week after next is stake conference again. It was
so recently that we've had stake conference. That's exciting
though.
Lately I've been teaching myself to play the Organ which
obviously is basically the same as the piano but I really love to play the Organ
a lot. It's so awesome.
This should be my last full week with Elder Reynolds as
he'll most likely be leaving the area next week Wednesday. We've really
gotten along great so I'm going to miss him. It sucks too because we
haven't had any baptisms together at all and we've scheduled 6 for two weeks
after he'll probably leave.
Everyone is saying I'm going to train again. This is
the longest I've gone without training which is 2 transfers. I don't know
how I would feel about that but I don't think it's very likely that I
will. We'll find out on Saturday though.
We had an investigator, A, who was supposed to be
baptized last year but she moved to Peddie. We knew she was coming back
in January but we misplaced her number and had absolutely no way to get in
contact with her. We were praying that somehow the Lord would put her in
our path so we could recontact her. She is supposed to be baptized on
February 11. Well she came to church yesterday. She's so committed
she came the first week she was back. I was really relieved that the
holiday hadn't shaken her testimony or something. She was reading the
Book of Mormon over the holiday and she came to sing in the choir after
church. Really sweet so for sure I think she'll get baptized.
Otherwise things have been pretty basic here but finally
they're really starting to look up
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