Delmua!!!
Like i say every week, what a
week!! The last couple of weeks have been stressful and completely different from anything i could have ever imagined, but this week has been much
better and i am feeling much better and am pushing the stress to the
side and am focusing on my responsibility and the work at hand!! I have
had to learn how to drive all over again and i can happily say i can
drive like a 15 year old now!! They drive on the left side of the road
and we drive a manual boki, and to make everything better everyone
drives like they out for blood, and the endless amount of goats and
cows that run everywhere!! But it has been great. The fundamentals of
the language are finally coming and people are more open when you can
speak even just a little setswana to them! And the food just keeps
getting better and better!! Me and my companions eat TONS of meat and a
large part of it is stuffed goat intestines and pap. Its amazing and
at the G families i got to eat chicken feet for the first time, it was as
good as it sounds AMAZING! They said "elder Swinlbra want to try some
chicken feet?" ya sure, which one? "The one pointing at you!!" Almost
threw up on their brand new couch but it's fine.
They call me
Elder Swindlaba because swindle sounds like its Zulu and they say i look
like i am from Europe and there is not a chance i am from America. They
are very funny people. Everything is based off humor. And a lot of
it.... But this week we taught a new investigator for the second time
about lesson 1. His name is {T} and he is actually educated and has
some what of a bit of money, and we taught him and compared the
restoration to soccer and he was catching everything and it was great,
but he lives right next to a bar and suddenly the bar just blasts it
music, but the amazing thing was it didn't even matter, the spirit was so
incredibly strong that he bounced off the couch and said elder
Swindlbra say a prayer for us now!!! and we put him on date for baptism
and he said he would do anything in the whole wide world to be baptised,
which was much of a shock because he smokes and is a very busy business
man. But by far the most incredible lesson or presence of the spirit i
have ever felt. It almost knocked the poor guy over. And later we found
out that he had the book of Mormon for years but never knew what it was. He said i have been waiting for this my whole life, something was
missing. But i now lead the discussions for lesson one now as part of my
training.
So to our great surprise our mission has been made
larger and we got half of the Joberg mission, but only 36 missionaries and
4 couples!!! Super cool considering that we only have 11 missionaries
left and many are leaving soon!! Elder Lawson is finally getting a new
companion that will help him so he does not go mentally crazy from call
ins. He is the funnest guy you can meet and is the most incredible
missionary i have ever met! So this week when elder Lawson gets a
companion from the new area, Elder Autry will hopefully be my companion and
i will probably be his last before he leaves in DEC. He is a big wrestler
that likes to wrestle elder Lawson to the point of being called a
monkey. They are both great and powerful teachers, we have oh so much
fun but we will work our butts off. Love you all and miss all of you
more than you could ever imagine :) i pray for all of you! Give Steeler a
wet slobbery kiss for me!
Shope Shope
--Elder Swindle
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