I'm actually liking the Old Testament. I'm up to page 450 by now. It's been a really enlightening experience I'm studying it with the student manual and I'm actually learning a lot and it's helping me in my teaching too. At least I know how the Old testament works and what the church was like then.
To Mom:
No we didn't get 20-0. We didn't get time to play any
matches on Tuesday or Monday so we finished our record 18-0
Last week we had the craziest experience and I forgot to
write you about it. Me and Elder Reynolds got invited by one of our
investigators to a tent for a worship service. It was in the middle of
the village far from town. We were driving around trying to find it and
we found this little wooden shack which was apparently a church. We
walked in and caused a bit of a distraction from the pastor while he was trying
to preach haha. All the people were so surprised to see 2 white guys come
into this random church in the middle of the village. The pastor stopped
preaching and everyone started praying at once. That's very common here
and it's really funny although I feel bad about laughing about it.
There's like 100 of them all saying prayers but they just try and make it sound
as powerful as they can and they don't pay any attention to what they're
saying. Sometimes they even speak in tongues which is just absolutely
senseless. It was very funny but we realized we were in the wrong place
so we left while they were praying and went to the right place.
We got into the tent where we were supposed to be and when
we got in they were really excited once again to see 2 white guys, so they
brought us to the front and gave us a place to stand right behind the
speakers. When I say speakers I mean that they had 2 massive amplifiers
and they were soooo loud. We got in and everyone was singing in Xhosa and
it was pretty cool. Then they turned the speakers on and the worship team
came to the front and the cool part was over. I sacrificed my ear drums
for that investigator so I really hope he joins the church. They had the
worship team of 7 people up at the front and they all had a microphone, and
they each pressed their mic as close to their mouth as they could possibly get
it and then screamed as loud as they possibly could. All 7 of them at
once, meanwhile everyone else was screaming as loud as they could too. I
screamed at the top of my lungs and I couldn't even hear it. It was
crazy. I didn't know that the noise could be that loud. That went
on for an hour straight. It was so ridiculous. Then the apostle
stood up and he said hallelujah. and everyone said praise the lord.
And he said hallejuah again and everyone said praise the lord again. He
did that like 15 times and then he switched to saying praise the lord, and
everyone said halleluja. And he did that like 15 times as well.
Hahahah then he gave the mic to the pastor who started preaching in
Xhosa. Luckily they had a translator who followed him around and
translated everything into English. It was quite funny. The pastor
taught some ridiculous false doctrine which was just so bad, but meanwhile all
the people were just shouting "Praise the Lord." They didn't
even really pay attention to what he was saying. It doesn't even really
matter to them. They don't want to learn about Jesus they just want to
sing and dance and praise in a really senseless way. At one point a lady
stood up and started speaking in tongues. She just said
"Hagagagagagagesi" Like 50 times in a row and then sat down. It
was so ridiculous. I felt bad for those people they were so misled and
they just believe anything anyone says about Jesus even if it completely
contradicts itself. To them everything is true and there's no point in
learning or doing anything except turning up to the church every week to scream
and dance and "Worship"
It was quite a funny experience
But anyway this week has been sweet. Elder Steffensen
is awesome and our lessons have been going so well. We're teaching great
and I love it. I'm getting excited about King Williams Town all of the
sudden. Unfortunately our baptism for next week has been postponed
because the family that was being baptized had to go to Queenstown and they
missed their baptismal interview. I was pretty disappointed about that
and I was disappointed in them too, but it's ok we'll probably just postpone
the baptism 1 week.
I went on an exchange with Elder Shaw and i found out his
Dad does exactly what I want to do for a career so I've been really excited
about that. I emailed him today and I'm hoping he'll respond and give me
some really valuable advice next week especially about what to study.
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