I
have to say I've been missing you too. The World Cup has been on
everywhere and it's hard to dodge it or not feel trunky when I see it.
But it's not too bad. I'm managing it ok. We went to teach Z the other day and the very end of the Brazil game was on and I saw the score I
think it was 1-0 at that time or 2-0 and Brazil had basically already won the
game and then I saw Neymar flick the ball over the defenders head. It
made me so mad. Man I hate that guy what an idiot. How can he do
something stupid like that. What a joke. I hope Brazil lose next
game and don't qualify.
It's
been funny to be with my companion though for the world cup. He always
says funny stuff about soccer and then says "It's not because I'm
Brazilian it's just because that's really what I think." And then if
we're talking to anyone else about it they always just agree with him because
they don't know anything and he's Brazilian. For example: Who's the best
player of all time. Me: It's Messi. My companion: It's
Ronaldinho. Everyone else: Yeah definitely Ronaldinho. Hahaha
what the heck. Nobody ever says Ronaldinho but they just parrot whatever
he says haha. Also he tries to convince me that the teams in Brazil are better
than any of the teams in Europe because they win the club world cup.
Hahaha. For the most part what
he says is good and correct and he's a really good player himself.
We've
been playing soccer every morning at the chapel with different companionships
which has been really sweet. It's good exercise and it's helping me get a
little bit of my touch back which will be good because I'm feeling a bit rusty
after not playing for a while.
We
played with the ward on Saturday as well. It's frustrating to play with
South Africans though because they don't really care about scoring or
winning. Honestly it's not their motive. They always make the field
as big as possible and the goal as small as possible to eliminate as much
scoring as possible. Then the point of the game becomes who has the
quickest and fanciest dribble. And it's not even like the dribble past
you either. They never try to dribble past anyone ever. They just
pull the ball back and forth and wait for you to try and steal it and then they
just pull it back and pull it back until they get to their own end line and
then they pass it away. And then they turn to you and laugh as if they
just smoked you. It doesn't make any sense. On Saturday we played
the young men and we beat them 4-0. It was me and my companion and 5 12
year olds against all the 17 year olds. We were up 4-0 and they still
took the ball in their own half and just stood on it waiting for us to come and
steal it. It confused me so bad because we were winning 4-0. And
yet they don't even care. They have no desire to win or score. They
just want you to go and steal it so they can try and do some quick dribbles and
keep you from stealing the ball. And then after the game, we just beat
them 4-0 scoring 4 times on a goal that was about 2 feet wide on a 7 v 7 pitch,
and they don't even think they lost because they had done all the cool
dribbling they wanted to do. Hahaha it's always fun to play with them but
it's no wonder why South Africa isn't very good. Even the professional
teams play exactly the same way. And all the South Africans I know are
terrible at shooting because they don't like shooting or scoring. But to
be fair just about every South African I have ever met that grew up in the
township is a pretty good dribbler and has good ball control.
But
it's been good to be with Elder Dos Santos.
To Mom:
This week was great because we had a baptism. We also
had Zone Conference and some other nice things.
The baptism was great. It was just brother Z who got baptized. He's great. I've loved teaching him and
also I love the food his wife makes for us every time we come. He's come
a long way since we've been teaching him and I'm really excited to see him
going forward. Him and his wife have committed to prepare for temple
sealing next year. That will be super awesome. After the baptism we
went to his house to give him his new member kit and he was so happy. He
just kept saying thank you so much for everything I feel so amazing I feel like
a new person. He's an awesome guy. The baptismal service was also
really nice. The Elders Quorum President gave a talk which was really
nice. and Sister Mndende gave a talk which was really
touching.
Zone Conference was cool. Before our interviews on
Tuesday President came to our boarding to do daily planning with me and my
companion. That was pretty cool and he had great ideas to bless everyone
that we were teaching and things we could do to strengthen them.
Zone Conference was nice though. President trained about a
lot of stuff that we already talked about during MLC last week so that was kind
of too bad, but he gave a really great inspiring training about how to pass new
converts over to the ward, that is going to help me a lot. It was Elder
Burns last Zone Conference so he's going home. I'm going to miss him he's
one of my best friends on mission. But he's going to Utah State so I'm
only going to miss him for like a month haha
Me and my companion have been finding a ton of great new
people and having loads of success this past week. It's an exciting time
to work here in this ward because it's going to split really soon. Also
President Lebethoa is going to be taking lots of cars, but not ours, and he's
instructed us to walk as much as possible with the Book of Mormon in our
hands. It's been great and yielded a lot of fruit.
Here are the pictures from the baptism
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