First off I want to dedicate this quote to something my friends Adam, Wes, and Michael Kimble would say:
"Work first, complain later."
"What's the point of complaining then?"
"Exactly. With or without complaining, you're gonna do it so just do it."
I took that one to heart.
So Month two is gone already. Time fly's when you're serving the Lord.
There's a baptism on Sunday for a investigator named Lizzy and she might as well be the next Relief Society President. She's that powerful.
So, it seems that people in townships stare at me more than I thought. We did yard work for a Sister on Tuesday. and come Sunday she fed us and said that everyone was commenting on how she could get a White Guy to do her gardening. That... I have no words to say how sad that made me. The Africanze (White people) here are not the nicest of people, but that statement.... It just upset me that they have grown up with racism as part of their community. Breaks my heart.... But she goes on to tell them that in her church they don't believe in racism and that I even volunteered for the service, so it turned out to be a missionary lesson.
So with that out of the way, she also made the best meal I have ever had here in Africa (on an unrelated note, pumpkin cook is super good).
And to add to my week, I started driving. What a heart attack I had. But I'm an expert driver now on the left side of the road!
It seems that the more I am here the more this country seems at home. For example, Winnie the Pooh and Spider-Man are huge here. This is my kind of country.
To tell you the truth I miss you guys back home, but I don't need to go back there. Home is where the Lord wants me, and as of now he wants me here.
(Oh, I invited someone to baptism and got a straight up no. That was fun.)
For those of you that pray, I'd pray for the members here to realize the importance of church so we can start bringing them back to the light. For those of you that don't believe... would it kill you to try?
With those things being said, one last thing is how much I drive around a day... 80-90 Km (1Mile = 1.609 Km's). You do the math on that.
-Elder Schnepf
PS
Shout out Tyler Jones for loving the MTC
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