Family!!
I have passed the 3 month mark! Feels like yesterday
that I was leaving SLC Airport and saying goodbye to you all. Time goes by too
quick on mission but I love it! When you stay busy and are teaching, the time
literally slips away. You feel like you don't have enough time to teach all the
lessons that you want to. And this mission is sweet. We are constantly
teaching people everyday. Every hour is filled with a teaching appointment. It
makes mission a lot of fun! Also Happy Fathers Day next Sunday! I hope you enjoy
it! Only one more Fathers Day left and I will be coming home(;
So
last week I forgot to tell you some things. As we were going to get subsistence
from Point Four, me and Elder Smith were on a bike going through traffic, when
we both noticed this white girl coming in the opposite lane in a truck. We both
got a little excitement in us because we don't see them very often. Maybe once
every month or so. Anyway, as she got closer she saw us both and just looked at
us funny haha probably wondering what two white guys were doing on a bike
together. All I can do is laugh whenever these situations occur. I think its
funny how whenever a white person here sees us white missionaries walking around
or zip by on a bike, they all give the same face when they see us. Its
priceless! That is definitely one thing I will miss when I go
home!
Also last week, we ran out of fuel for two days. So our
apartment was in darkness for two nights. Yeah, its not the funnest thing to
have happen to you. Its a really good thing that our zone is in one compound
though, because we would go eat and write in our journals over in their
apartment. But subsistence got put off because there was no money in the bank
and we had no district funds. so yeah... thats what happens when you run out of
money. Not very fun. On the Second day of no light, after eating dinner, I had
my head lamp on when I was going through the apartment. As I got to the kitchen
I was looking down, and when I looked up, the whole kitchen sink, window, wall,
everything on that side of the kitchen came alive.... Cock roaches everywhere,
little bugs that I dont know what they are, and a spider. So if this happens in
the kitchen at night when its dark, just imagine whats going on in the rest of
the apartment at night.... Mission life is an adventure (:
So on
Thursday, we had a zone service project in Elder Dahlin's and Elder Dlamini's
area in Zuana Town. This place is in the bush. I have pictures that I want to
send home so I hope that I will be able to today! It was a 30-45 minute drive
then from there, it was a 30 minute walk through the jungle/forest. What we were
doing, was helping The Budges, who are a married couple from Utah that are
here helping orphans. They have only been married a year and a few weeks and
they actually went home yesterday. Anyway, they are doing a project where they
are building orphanage homes and a school system for the orphans out here in the
bush. What we were doing for the service project was help clean up the concrete
and wood pieces so that they would be able to have their party for the finishing
up of this one home. We were there for a good 3 hours cleaning up. It looked
really good once we were all finished. They then fed us some bread and some
other snacks then it was time for us to go. As we were leaving, a dump truck
was coming in hauling sand to this place. After he finished dumping, we asked
him if he could take us back to Iron Gate... And he said yes! We rode in a dump
truck from out in the bush, all the way to Iron Gate! That was like a 45 to an
hour drive in the back of this truck! It was sweet! It was like a safari almost
except there was no animals... just way cool plants and trees. It still was a
way fun ride! I have pictures of it so maybe I will be able to send
some of those home as well.
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