Hey!!! So I am doing great!! I don’t have many pictures today I forgot to
take pictures of my area but I have a few!! I think I will be here in Swaziland
for the rest of my mission!!! It’s good to hear that dad has been getting a lot
of work! Is he still getting more?? I will have to admit I am a little jealous
of you going to Disneyland but Africa is still better!!! This week was a great
week!!
Monday: I just had family night with
our investigators and said goodbye to them. The Elder Boyd came to our
house so I did meet him! ( a friend from high schools son)
Tuesday: woke up at two in the
morning to drive to the mission office ( it was at two just because they were
dropping off other missionaries whose flight came in late it only takes 45 min
to drive there from Matola) and then we left the mission home at 10am and we
drove to Swaziland. It was me and 3 other elders it took us only 4 hoursand on
the way there we saw some impalas and a giraffe!!!!! It was sweet!!! We finally
got to our house and I went shopping and we went out to work!! We have a river
in our area and it is a very beautiful area but there are tons of hills!
Wed: it was just a long day of work
so here we worked a lot harder and longer to get about the same results as in
Mocambique! My comp is a very hard
worker which is great I love working with him!
Thursday: it was just a normal day
and I would tell you the names of our investigators but I forgot their names
they have very difficult names here and when they speak their language has
clicks and tongues its very hard to learn!! The language is very close to Zulu!!!
We also found a guy from Mocambique so we got to speak Portuguese at him it was
way nice!!!
Friday was a great day we had 9
lessons and 9 contacts I swear we walked like5000 miles that day knocking on
every door!!! So most of our contacts are door contacts because there are only
1000000 people here so there aren’t as many on the road and here a lot of women
live alone and don’t have husbands its very weird!!!
Saturday: we had district conference
in Manzini!! So that was good
and Sunday we had the Sencon part in
our branch building!! It was a broadcast that Elder Bednar and Elder Uchtdorf
and Elder Gay spoke at it was good!!
So are you speaking English? Yes
well I am trying
How is your English? I can speak
fine unless I am praying or talking about the gospel and then it’s hard I have
to translate it all back to English but it’s getting easier. Sometimes during
some of my prayers Portuguese words will slip in and when I am teaching they
just look at me like I am an idiot it’s pretty funny!!
How many missionaries are in
Swaziland?18
How many are in our apartment?4
Who is your new companion and where
is he from? So his name is Elder Schachterle and he is from Vancouver Washington
How big is your branch? well this
week we had a frequency of 118 so it is smaller than the branches in Mocambique
but the church has had more time here
Biggest difference between Swaziland
and Mozambique? well for one we speak English, most of the people here have a
little more money, there are a lot of mountains, our area sucks because there
are so many hills and my legs are sore, it is more Americanized, the church is
stronger here, and the work is a little harder!!!
How many areas have you served in has
it been 6? so my areas are Magoanine, Manga, Munhava, Matola, and now Ezulwini (where
I am right now).
Is this place more Americanized? Yes
very much so!!!!
Do they speak Swazi and do you have
to learn another language or just English? they speak English and siSwati most
everyone speaks English but we do have a few investigators that only speak the
language siSwati so we have to bring translators
What are the land conditions like?
foresty and mountainous Sandy no there is still a lot of poverty but not as
much
Are there any sights in Swaziland
that you want to see? well not that i know of yet
What are you doing for P-day? well
we have thanksgiving dinner at the senior couples home today!!
Is this a hard area to teach people
the gospel? No but it is harder than Matola!!!
I haven’t put any money in your
account so don’t take any out I don’t want you to be overdrawn? Hunter
Wilkes works at the bank and he waived that $2.50 charge so you can check your
balance in your account now without getting charged. Well thank you hunter!!!!!
So are you going back to the mission
home for Christmas? Yes we will have a zone conference I was hoping you
would get your box before Christmas so you could have your 12 days of
Christmas? I can just have the 12 days late What do you guys get to do
for Christmas? Zone conference and I don’t know
Tell me the Elders names in your
apartment so I can Blog stalk them. Elder Atkison, Elder Christensan. That's it
for this week I love you guys!!!
