I want to help coach your young boys when I
get home. I talk to Elder Dove about coaching a lot. He coached
the u9s and u11s at Oldham and now he actually has a job coaching the
u21s of a team in Denmark when he goes home. He wants to coach in the prem.
I want to coach in premier 1. Similar aspirations I think hahaha.
But we talk all the time and it makes me really excited to go home and try some
things coaching teams and things.
Also
we've been playing a lot. Misison has really reinforced for me the fact
that I really want to play still in college and things and also that I don't
ever want to miss a city game again. the Prem is on every tv in SA all
the time so I see snippets every day and it just makes my heart yearn to watch
city. Of course I'm here serving the Lord so that's a good substitute but
when I'm home I'm watching every game.
To Mom:
I've still been waking up early every day to play
soccer. Now we get the whole zone to come and we just play a short 30
minute game with everyone every morning.
This Wednesday is transfers. Elder Lillback will be
going to Mthatha which is like the craziest area of the mission and way far
out. I'll miss him a lot. I'm going to be training... again.
For the third time. In the mission they say you're someones mother if you
follow up train them and someones father if you train them. All told I
have had 6 companions and I have 6 sons. Hahaha. I've only had 2
transfers where I wasn't doing the 12 week program. Yeah oh well but my
new companion will be Elder Khoza from Durban I think. I don't know
anything about him but I'll surely send some pics and things next week. After I found out I was training again everyone was just
calling me and laughing and laughing. The Lord is definitely trying to
teach me something. I've prayed and asked Him what it is and I've had
some few thoughts.
We've been working with Brother D for a few
weeks. We saw him yesterday and he really opened up. He was
testifying to his kids about the spirit and the BoM and he was making plans to
read with them and to help them understand the gospel. It has been 8 years
since he was at church. He promised to come yesterday but he didn't show
up. I think they will all come soon. He was really sincere in
thanking Elder Lillback when he told him he was leaving. Brother D was telling him how much he needed this and how much he appreciates that Elder
Lillback came to him and visited him. I think we're the first
missionaries that have seen brother D in a long time.
We set a goal because we don't have anyone who is really
going to make a baptismal date at all so we set a goal to find 30 new
investigators this week to prepare the area for the new missionary. We
got 29. We didn't quite make it but we did really well. This area
is tough so I think we probably need to get at least 20 new investigators a week
to have reasonable success. That's something I think we'll focus on next
transfer. It is frustrating to teach so many people and not have
success. Me and Elder Lillback set a goal at the beginning of the
transfer to have 10 investigators at sacrament meeting. We never had more
than 5. On his last Sunday we had 0. Hahha. We just need to
work harder :)
Something big that happened for me this week is that on
Monday we went to the book store and I bought the Screwtape Letters to read in
my spare time in the evenings. Elder Sibiya bought a book called Rich Dad
Poor Dad. We decided to trade with each other and he could read my book
and I would read his and we'd trade back. I read Rich Dad Poor Dad in the
evenings when I had extra time. I finished it on Thursday night and now
I'm pretty much certain I know what I want to do with the rest of my
life. It talks about buying assets and investing and it makes so much
sense to me. It excites me so much every time I think about it I just get
so excited. I want to study investment and I want to buy and sell
assets. There's a guy I met here who is super rich who buys and sells
businesses. I'm going to email him a bit and narrow down my ideas exactly
but ultimately I want to own businesses. It perfectly fulfils everything
I want. I said I wanted to start a business because I like talking and
working with people. But I don't think I want the hours or the work of a
CEO. Instead being a business owner would be much different. I
would still be working with a lot of people but instead I would be paying
people to do the administration and I would study the market and investment and
advertisement and things like that. Those things really fascinate
me. I'll let you know in a few weeks after talking to some people exactly
what I want to study in college but the idea of money working for me and
understanding how money works is something I really want to do.
Other interesting transfer news. Elder Dove is
staying. Elder Faingata'a is coming to be my ZL. If you remember
him he's one of my best friends.
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