T.I.A.

Sorry for the late post!! I'm a little tardy to the party. I swear his P-days are on Thursday!

This is Africa.

In my district, we absolutely are the greatest. We have 2 native Missionaries from J Burge named Elder Motahjana and Tchabalala. They are the funniest people alive and are the ones that got us to all start saying "My Man" or "TIA" or "WHATCHA!"

In our district named Moroni, we have the zone leaders of the MTC (awesome people) and Me and My companion, Elder Day, are the District Leaders. He leads, I back him up. We have had tons of fun bonding and playing games that the two locals hate us for. We love them so much.

It turns out that as a result of praying in the best room in the temple your eyes get really exhausted and begin to sweat... I love this temple, and every part of it is wonderful! I can not wait to go again, because I get to go every 3 months!!!

Also, turns out that they have almost none of the American candy here, which I'm fine with but the candy we do have is like the most precious thing to our two home boys. They can't stop eating it.

Ok, gonna have a bit of a spiritual moment here so bear with me (they don't have any bears here surprisingly). On Sunday for sacrament meeting we sang "Spirit of God" and I can not tell you the power behind that song... but that's why there's more english words than what I know to do with. It reminded me of every hard time or impossible task that I had over come. It was as if a reminder to me that I can do it and I can accomplish anything with the Holy Ghost. 

Rugby. It's the greatest sport known to man and I love every part of it. We went out to go play sports at about 3:30 every day and on Monday we met some field boys (missionaries) out there. They taught a few of us how to play, and it was amazing. If there's one sport you can get me to play, it's that one without a doubt.

I'll add a few pictures so you can see what it's like here, and I can't wait to to have more stories to tell... But for now I'll say that there are some missionaries from here that don't understand what "no flirting" means, including my companion. Don't worry about me though: I turn the guy in the mirror away.

The one thing I'm missing here is music, and the song I miss most is "Army of Heleman". If that song is being sung as I get off the plane in two years I think I'll... well I don't know what I'll do.

Remember: T.I.A. 

​Elder Day is in the front-right, Hamilton Front-Left and Flanagin back left... and a Stud on the right (apparently I need to remove that from my vocabulary here)

Elder Schnepf