Brookie I Lied

Here's this weeks email from our Elder!!

I got into a car accident. First, no one was hurt, and second the cars were fine (mostly). The guy behind us tried to swerve around us while we were turning and... well he hit us. The kid then called his father because he was the one who owned the car and they were super worried because they had no insurance and the kid didn't have his license on him... Let that be a lesson to all of you drivers.

So Transfer week was last tuesday and guess what? I didn't change because I'm still being trained. I do, however, miss a few of the Elders that got moved out of the area to others. Elder Kilgore and Lefthand will be missed by me, but I'll see then eventually.

First Baptism was yesterday and I got to conduct it. It was awesome to see a whole branch laugh at my few quick puns before we got on with the Baptism. It was awesome to see my Trainer go into the font that we had just spent an hour cleaning the day before. It was an awesome experience to see Lizzy Ratchisa get baptized. I will confirm her next week, so oh boy do I not want to mess that up.

I've also been doing alot of blessings since I got here. I'll be a pro at them by the time I return from my mission.

So to tell you more about the environment here, it's never a good idea to leave anything in your car for fear of a smash n grab. Also, people fear no cars here. They walk on the road like they own it... before they get hit by a car. Yeah, there's that. Another thing is everyone communicates with the lights on the car, hazard and high beams are ways of saying please and thank you.

The candy here are cough drops. I don't remember if I told you guys that, but I'll tell you that now. ALSO, there is no such thing as Steak Spice here. My heart sank when I found that out.

But to tell you about Africa overall, just picture in your mind what you think Africa is like. Got that image? Good. Now throw that in the trash because that's not africa at all. African people are some of the nicest people on the planet. They always are willing to feed you, invite you in, and listen to what you have to say. They share what they have and never complain about what they don't have. They are super proud to be called South Africans, and to tell you the truth they have every reason to be. I have never met a nicer group of people. They do live in shacks in some places, but these shacks have laptops and phones and they use facebook and all manner of electronics. There's some shacks that are even nicer than where some of the suburbs are. They have bathes and toilets and sinks. THEY HAVE ZOOS for the animals not in South Africa. Every other person is happy that I am here because they say;

"Now you can go home and tell people what Africa is really like."

That says something right there. 

Now here's the more Missionary part of me, so if you don't wanna read it then just skip it.

The Church grows so fast here. People love to hear the Gospel and strive to make it part of their lives. Though they seem jealous that I was raised in the church, I am Jealous of their testimonies because They get a strong testimony and build off of that. I wish I had started out like that.

Ok, before I go I just have one more thing to tell all of you:

 

The Book is Blue

The Church is True

And God's a Mormon.

Those are facts. Deal with it. See you next week

_ELder Schnepf