I'm happy for the money that is being sent. thanks a
lot. It's a big shame though: About 3 months ago the president of
South Africa was Jacob Zuma who was really corrupt and destroying the economy
and the rand to the dollar was aweful. It was like 15 rand to the
dollar. But after being the president for 9 years and almost done with
his second term (a term in South Africa is 5 years and they can only serve for
2) almost randomly out of nowhere they kicked him out of office, and elected a
new guy Cyril Ramaphosa to be the new president. That sounds really
corrupt to me because there's about 3 major parties that all run for the election,
but the ANC just slyly put their guy in office right before the actual election
next year, so that they have a much better chance of winning the
election. it seems very corrupt to me but no problem. Anyway Cyril
Ramaphosa is a big multi millionaire businessman and he's not really corrupt,
so he's going to be a great president. The reason I told you all of that
is because now that he is the president the rand to the dollar has dropped like
crazy to be about 11 rand to the dollar and now I don't get nearly as much
money for every dollar you send me. And I think it's only going to drop
more. That's sad, but I'm just going to withdraw the rest of the money
and keep it for the rest of my mission.
Yeah this week was nice I was just in my area every day so
that was nice. also President Lebethoa is introducing a change to the
transfers, whereby we're going to be doing them by bus now so instead of
driving down to East London and meeting up with all the missionaries from the 2
zones there, we're just going to stay in Queenstown and the new missionaries
are going to come directly here. It's nice because we don't have to take
2 days out of our schedule to go to East London, but actually I'm pretty
dissappointed about it. Instead of seeing some of the other guys once
every 6 weeks, there's now literally no way to see any other missionaries
unless they get transferred to the Queenstown zone. I feel a lot more
isolated out here now.
This week is transfers on Wednesday. When President
came to Queenstown for zone conference I told him I had a suggestion for him
about transfers. I asked if he could bring Elder Mabanga to this zone so
that I could have all 3 of my sons in my zone with me. Obviously I was
joking and it was a long shot anyway because Elder Mabanga is only finishing
his second transfer in Zwide so he's not supposed to leave there anyway.
Well Elder Mabanga is coming to Queenstown zone so I'm way
surprised and happy about that. I'm laughing though, because I should
have had my 3 sons with me here, but Elder Reedy also got a surprise early
transfer to Cape Town to be the AP so I guess no family reunion for me.
Maybe when I see President again I'll ask him to bring Elder Reedy back.
I'm stoked to have Elder Mabanga here though, He's been one
of my favorite companions.
Next week we're having a mission tour from Elder S Mark
Palmer of the seventy, who is our area president. I'm really stoked and
excited about that. Queenstown zone is the only zone that has it's own
zone conference. All the other zone's combine, so it should be pretty
cool to have a smaller training from Elder Palmer. It will feel more
individualized since there's only 12 of us.
Otherwise this week has been pretty basic. I'm staying
with Elder Allred. We're starting to really work things out and work well
together so I'm glad to have another transfer with him.
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