This week was pretty cool
I tried to send a lot of pictures so I hope that that lifts
your spirits with tournament week. Tournament week is hard but I'm
praying for you!
I just got it from the mission office about 5
minutes ago and I think that they sent it to you as well. I'm really
stoked about flying home with Elder Ballsteadt, Elder Ondracek, and Elder
Ivins. Those are 3 of my best friends and I think it's going to be just
the 4 of us. So I'm stoked for that. Haha yeah please make sure you check what terminal
I'm going to go to because it would be way anti climactic if it's me waiting
for you guys and all of you coming down the escalator hahaha. But no need
to look so far ahead into the future. I'm still going to be here for 2
and a half months!
This week a lot happened. We did have 2 confirmations
this Sunday which was nice. Did I send you the pictures from the
baptism? We're planning our next baptism for June 24th. I'm way
excited about a guy named Z. He's really awesome and he's married
to a member. He's just young though I think he's like 25. But he's
getting more and more prepared for baptism each time we go there. At
first he was like "yeah maybe I'll come. I mostly want to join the church
for my daughter" (they just had a baby about a month ago) but now when we
see him he's really genuine and serious and his countenance is just changing.
For sure I'm excited about his baptism though. Aside from that we have
about 8 other investigators that are looking pretty good for the next 2
months. We'll see though. I'll tell you more about them in the
coming few weeks.
I've started teaching piano lessons. There's one
sister in our ward who wants me to teach her and there's also a 12 year old
girl who I'm teaching because she has a piano and her parents are a little bit
less active so It's helping her. But I've had 3 lessons with her now and
I realized that I have no idea how to teach somebody to play the paino. I
have no idea if what I'm teaching her is way too advanced or way too easy or
what. Please help. I really need suggestions on how to effectively
teach piano to someone who knows nothing. Also she doesn't have a piano
book and they don't sell piano books anywhere for like 100 or 200 kilometers
Yesterday LX turned 9. We go to the
X every Thursday for dinner and they always give us really big, really
nice meals. So yesterday I was expecting to have a nice meal for his
birthday or something. But turned out he had like a legit birthday party
and me and Elder Allred were the guests of honor. It was so nice.
We just gave a nice spiritual thought and then we ate like crazy. They
loaded our plates with so much meat I was so excited. All we had was meat
and pap. (pap is really really nice and I've just been eating it more and more
probably 2 or 3 times a week. Ask Daniel he'll tell you it's terrible,
but I really love it) We had so much meat more especially me. I
just ate and ate it was really a feast. But I love their family and
L little cousin A is so cute so I sent some pictures of her as
well.
This morning we went to hike the biggest mountain in
Queenstown called Lukhanji mountain. It's pretty huge so we were pretty
stoked. On our way there we drove past the fence of the game reserve and
there was a Rhino like 15 feet away. You can't see it very well in the
picture but I was way excited to see a Rhino it's the first time in my whole
mission to see one. The horn was cut off though because you can sell a
Rhino horn for about 700 thousand USD. So they get poached about 2 or 3 a
day around the world and they're apparently one of the most endangered species
in the world. so the owners of the game reserve cut the horn on this one.
pretty cool.
Hiking Lukhanji was really cool and it took 3 hours to hike
it which is 1 and a half hours up and 1 and a half down. It was cool but
the pictures say it all. Don't judge them I just sent them all haha
One of the hard things about serving here is that there's
nobody who knows how to cut white peoples hair. So for my last hair cut I
just went to a guy from Ghana. He did an ok job with the machine, but
when he used the scissors I realized he had no idea what he was doing. He
used them so rarely that they weren't even sharp enough to cut the hair and he
had to like hack at each piece of hair he wanted to cut hahaha. So he
ended up leaving too much hair on the back of my head and on the right side as
well. So I decided the brilliant and obvious thing to do was to cut my
own hair with some safety scissors. I cut the hair on the right side of
my head just beautifully and it looked really good which encouraged me to go
straight on to the back of my head without really looking in a mirror.
Unfortunately I didn't do so good of a job hahaha. I cut a massive bald
spot on the back of my head hahaha. The radius is like 2 or 3 inches and
I had to use lots of gel to like, fold some of the hair that's left over the
top of it to cover it up. But good thing black people don't actually know
what white hair is supposed to look like so they can't actually tell the
difference so I should be ok
About the pictures: probably more than you wanted but I'm going to "try
diligently to elevate myself out of the bottom 10" picture taking
missionaries of all time before my mission is over
this is the mountain we climbed
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funny guy. We were listening to a BYU devotional where
Dallin H Oaks was saying a bunch of stuff about BYU and then we looked up and
saw this guy out the window wearing a BYU jacket hahaha
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nice video. This little girl's name is Aqama Xaluva
but I think it's really cute the way she says it
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The rhino, but it is a terrible picture
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